Director of the upcoming love story flick The Notebook, Nick Cassavetes has signed on to direct The Martian Child with John Cusak recently signing as well to star.
The film is adapted by sci-fi author David Gerrold in a story that will find Cusack playing a sci-fi writer who, shattered by the death of his fiancee, adopts a 6-year-old because he wants to be a dad. His kid is a bit peculiar, convinced he is an alien from Mars.
