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Penn Adapting Gibbs' LAST EQUATION

By: Jarrod Sarafin
Date: Thursday, May 22, 2008
Source: Hollywood Reporter

What would Albert Einstein do? Well, the story behind this latest movie on the horizon tells what he didn't want to do, says the Hollywood Reporter. The trade announced that screenwriter Sascha Penn is in charge of adapting Stuart Gibbs' novel The Last Equation for Lionsgate. To check out what the story's about, see below.

Plot Concept:
The mystery surrounds Pandora, Albert Einstein's last equation. The Pandora equation had the potential to solve the world's energy problems, but it so drastically simplified the process of harnessing atomic energy that it essentially made it possible for anyone to create atomic weaponry. Because of the risks, Einstein either hid or destroyed the equation before his death.

"Equation" takes place in the present day as the government is forced to enlist the help of a fugitive criminal and mathematical genius to find the equation before it falls into the wrong hands.


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AzuLTaLoN • May 22, 2008, 12:54am •
sounds likes a science trip and i love this type of shit.

OH YEAH I GOT A JOB WOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

fft5305 • May 22, 2008, 09:13am •
Hmm. This sounds pretty cool. And it hasn't already been done to death. I like it.

joeybaloney • May 22, 2008, 09:36am •
Einstein should turn up alive in a Retirement Home in Texas where we find out he faked his own death and was surviving as an Einstein impersonator until breaking his hip on the set of I.Q. He teams up with an also alive JFK to hunt down the Pandora Equation which is in the hands of a 3,000 year old mummy that dresses like a cowboy and is killing the residents of the old folk’s home.

joeybaloney • May 22, 2008, 10:11am •
Oh! And Einstein and JFK are helped out by a talking pie.

WISEGUY562 • May 22, 2008, 10:59am •
O.k. they got me. I hid it but I'm not telling where and I'd like to see if the film comes close.

AzuL, my b.day is coming up and I prefer cash. Congrats.

ThrillerSam • May 22, 2008, 11:00am •
Man he was such a genuis. I love this stuff too. I used his String Theory in a couple scripts I wrote and I can't help but wonder if he was still alive today, what kind of technology he would have come up with.

hanso • May 22, 2008, 11:08am •
Thriller Sam, can't you read man? Joey just told you where Einsten is at, he's in a retirement home bitchslappin cowboy dressin mummies son!.

hanso • May 22, 2008, 01:47pm •
Azul - I've been stricken by curiosity due to your numerous posts stating that you landed a job. If I may ask, which I will now, what job did you get? Inquiring minds would like to know.

jedi4sshield • May 22, 2008, 08:35pm •
This is definitely new territory for an idea never done before. Still Its gonna probably be about a bunch of people sitting at a desk with a comp doin Math. I dont see the action potential in this. Unless they actually use the equation throughout the movie making miniature nukes to keep the bad guys off their back I dont see the potential in this other than being a Math lesson that takes 2 hrs to watch!!! Now as they mention there is a criminal in this movie I take it maybe this Equation is hidden and they are out to search for it (ala National Treasure, Indian Jones type of scenario). I'll hold off any excitement till the trailer pops up.

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