Episode Fourteen - I Am Number Four (2011)
Failure to Franchise
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Previous Episode: Episode Thirteen - Fantastic Four aka Fant4stic (2015)
In the wake of TWILIGHT's pop-culture explosion in 2008, every major studio was looking to launch the next big movie franchise based on a popular Young Adult literary series. In this episode, we take our first dive into these crowded YA waters. When Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg were eager to cash in on the TWILIGHT-craze themselves, they turned to the manuscript of an at-the-time unreleased sci-fi adventure book by a controversial author (writing, with a partner, under the pen-name "Pittacus Lore"), called I AM NUMBER FOUR. While the book WOULD go on to spawn a successful literary series, the movie adaptation...well, we're talking about it on this show, so you get the idea. But what went wrong? Let's discuss.