<P> DreamWorks Pictures bought the rights to the film in June 2009; it was released on February 18, 2011 and was the first DreamWorks movie to be distributed by Disney's Touchstone Pictures . </P> <P> The novel is the first of a seven - book series . </P> <P> A prelude of the killing of one of the Garde children--No. 3--by Mogadorians . This story is about a 15 - year - old boy named John Smith . He has been on the run from the age of 4, and he is from a planet called Lorien . </P> <P> Most of the book is told in the first person by Number Four, who takes the name John Smith . As the story begins, he and his guardian or Cepân, Henri, learn of the death of Number Three and move to Paradise, Ohio, assuming new identities aka John Smith . There, John befriends conspiracy theorist Sam Goode and "adopts" a dog identified by its name tag as "Bernie Kosar". He also meets and is attracted to a fellow student, Sarah Hart, who is working as a photographer . Sarah's ex-boyfriend, football player Mark James, is a bully who torments both John and Sam . </P>

What is the main character's name in i am number four