Having become tired of “robots trading punches while cars explode in the background” movies, infamous director Michael Bay is set to produce and possibly direct I am Number Four.

The film will be based on a six-book science fiction series that follows a group of nine earthbound alien teens who escape their planet just before it was destroyed by hostile species.

While they try to assimilate to the new environment, the title character discovers that he is being hunted by the forces that blew up his planet.

James Fey is attached as a writer. Steven Spielberg is also expected to be involved in a capacity similar to his behind-the-scenes work on Transformers.