It was first reported in October that Lionsgate had picked up the rights not only to Walter Isaacson’s biography, “Einstein: His Life and Universe,” (Simon & Schuster, 2007) but also to the entire life story of famed scientist, physicist, mathematician and philosopher, Albert Einstein

Risky Business reports that OddLot Entertainment has since acquired the rights from the studio and has hired writer Stephen Schiff to pen the script.

The script won’t be an adaptation of the biography, but rather an original screenplay that draws material from both archives at Princeton and Hebrew Universities, as well as the Isaacson biography, and will span from 1902 to 1939, six years after Einstein emigrated to the US in the face of an ever-strengthening Nazi regime.

Gabe and Alan Polsky of Polsky Films who originally secured the Einstein’s life rights and the consulting participation of Isaacson even before his bio published, will produce with Gigi Pritzker and Linda McDonough. Christopher Cooney and Jeffrey Cooney are executive producers.