GODZILLA Scribe Will Adapt MONA For New Regency

One of the screenwriters who took a crack at GODZILLA reboot script, Max Borenstein has been hired by New Regency to adapt Dan Sehlberg’s upcoming novel, MONA.
Via Deadline, the feature adaptation is produced by Michael London and Janice Williams through their banner, Groundswell Prods.
Below is the book‘s official synopsis..

Eric Söderquist, professor of computer science at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, has invented Mind Surf: a thought-controlled system that allows people with disabilities to browse the web.

Lebanese Samir Mustaf is a former MIT professor whose daughter Mona was killed by an Israeli cluster bomb five years earlier. He has just completed the most sophisticated computer virus the world has ever seen, for the purpose of a cyber attack against Israel’s financial system.

Eric’s wife Hanna falls into a coma – struck by an aggressive and previously unknown virus – after having tested her husband’s invention. The doctors are at a loss. Although everyone around him thinks he’s gone mad, Eric is convinced that his wife has been infected by a powerful computer virus known as Mona, and that the only way he can save her is by tracking down its creator. In a dramatic and increasingly dangerous pursuit Eric gets closer to his academic equal Samir, with both Mossad and Hezbollah following his every move. In Stockholm the mysterious virus has just claimed its first victim and Hanna’s condition is deteriorating quickly.

Mona is an extremely informed, suspenseful and original thriller based on a breathtaking concept that verges on science fiction, though closely related to real developments in the field of thought-controlled systems and cyber warfare.