Martian Child is a 2007 American comedy-drama film directed by Menno Meyjes and based on David Gerrold's 1994 novelette of the same name. The film stars John Cusack as a writer who adopts a strange young boy who believes himself to be from Mars. The film was theatrically released on November 2, 2007, by New Line Cinema.
Theatrical release poster
David Gerrold is an American science fiction screenwriter and novelist. He wrote the script for the original Star Trek episode "The Trouble with Tribbles", created the Sleestak race on the TV series Land of the Lost, and wrote the novelette "The Martian Child", which won both Hugo and Nebula Awards, and was adapted into a 2007 film starring John Cusack.
Gerrold in 2016