Sensing that their is money to be made in historical/secret code deciphering a la The Da Vinci Code and National Treasure, Lionsgate are banking on the theories of the late Albert Einstein to bankroll the next moneymaker. After securing the rights to a possible Einstein biopic, the company has now acquired film rights to The Last Equation – the debut novel by screenwriter Stuart Gibbs.
The novel is about the mystery surrounding Albert Einstein’s last equation which he named Pandora. The Pandora equation had the potential to solve the world’s energy problems but Einstein either hid or destroyed the equation before his death. The story, set in the present day, follows a fugitive criminal and mathematical genius enlisted by the US government to find the equation before it falls into the wrong hands.