Former “Lost” merc Kevin Durand (who was also in “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” and the upcoming “Robin Hood”) is in negotiations to join two sci-fi movies: playing the alien villain in Dreamworks’ “I am Number Four” and a boxing promoter in “Real Steel”, also from Dreamworks.
D.J. Caruso is directing “Four,” which adapts the upcoming young-adult science fiction book by James Frey and Jobie Hughes. The story centers on one of nine aliens (played by Alex Pettyfer) who escape their home planet before its annihilation by a rival species and hide out on Earth disguised as high school students.
Durand is playing the commander of the aliens who are hunting the survivors down on Earth.
“Steel” sees Shawn Levy directing Hugh Jackman in the tale set in a future in which robots fight it out in the boxing ring. Jackman is a former boxer-turned-manager who reunites with his estranged son to take his fighter to the championships.
If a deal can be worked out, Durand will play the Texan promoter of robot boxing.
Busy man, Kevin Durand.
