Martian Child is a 2007 English-language Comedy Drama movie written by Seth Bass, Jonathan Tolins and David Gerrold. The movie is directed by Menno Meyjes and produced by Ed Elbert, Drew Barrymore, David Kirschner, Toby Emmerich and Nancy Juvonen under the banner of Flower Films in collaboration with MERADIN Zweite Productions. The film stars John Cusack as a writer who adopts a strange young boy who believes himself to be from Mars. Martian child stars John Cusack, Bobby Coleman, Amanda Peet, Sophie Okonedo, Oliver Platt, Joan Cusack and Vince Yoshida. The screenplay is written by Seth E. Bass & Jonathan Tolins which is inspired from The Martian Child by David Gerrold. The music was composed by Aaron Zigman. Cinematography was done by Robert D. Yeoman and editing by Bruce Green. The film has a running time of 106 minutes. It was released on 2nd November 2007. Martian Child was made on a budget of $27 million and at the box office it grossed only $9 million. Distribution rights for the movie were acquired by New Line Cinema.