Sam Raimi Hires Writer for BZRK

Michael Ross (Turistas) has been hired to script the Sam Raimi produced adaptation of the novel BZRK. This is the first book in a trilogy written by Michael Grant, and Sony Pictures acquired the rights to the book last year.

This story actually sounds very cool. It follows "a team of gifted teens control biological nanobot robots warriors and they battle another group that is controlled by conjoined twins whose nanobots are brainwashing world leaders. The megalomaniacal twins are trying to take over the world."

I'm not really that familiar with Ross' work; I never saw Turistas because it didn't look like a good movie. But I'm looking forward to this one--hell, I look forward to anything that Raimi has a hand in. The guy likes what we like, so if he thinks this is going to make a cool movie then it probably will be.

Here's a description from the book:

Set in the near future, BZRK is the story of a war for control of the human mind.  Charles and Benjamin Armstrong, conjoined twins and owners of the Armstrong Fancy Gifts Corporation, have a goal:  to turn the world into their vision of utopia.  No wars, no conflict, no hunger.  And no free will.  Opposing them is a guerrilla group of teens, code name BZRK, who are fighting to protect the right to be messed up, to be human.  This is no ordinary war, though.  Weapons are deployed on the nano-level. The battleground is the human brain.  And there are no stalemates here:  It’s victory . . . or madness.
 
BZRK unfolds with hurricane force around core themes of conspiracy and mystery, insanity and changing realities, engagement and empowerment, and the larger impact of personal choice. Which side would you choose?  How far would you go to win? 

Does it sound like a movie you'd like to see?