John Nash Upset by Plot of "A Beautiful Mind 2: The Soduku Secret"

Berkeley, CA - Retired genius John Forbes Nash, creator of the Nash Equilibrium - a staple of modern game theory - is reportedly "disappointed" in the low-level intelligence of the plot behind the 2007 sequel to the academy award-winning tale of his life: "A Beautiful Mind."

Slated to open during the winter holidays in 2007, "A Beautiful Mind 2: The Soduku Secret" chronicles a middle-aged man's journey (Russell Crowe) to madness and back as he wrestles with the daily dose of insanity prescribed by his addiction to soduku puzzles during his morning commute.



If you're asking yourself just what this bizarre "Soduku" is, you should go ahead and check your pulse as well. Soduku is all the rage. In magazines, newspapers, and online. Most commercial bookstores even have their own section of books containing only the 9*9 puzzles.



So what's the point of them you ask? Why all the rage over them? Nash doesn't understand it either: "It's unbelievably lame," retorts the mathematical uber-genius, "you put the digits 1-9 in rows, columns and squares so that they don't repeat?! I solved (expletive) like that in fourth grade."

Soduku fans aren't listening - they're too keeled over their puzzle books - #2 China in hand - filling in the little boxes with scribbled writing, over-writing where they've messed up, erasing their mistakes in a frenzy and occassionally shouting the inevitable "DAMN!" when they've realized they're just one number off - and they thought they were so close.

Some non-fans are appeased by the puzzles as well. "Whenever punk kids would sit by me on the train there was always that wierdness," says Dale Hunter, 68 of San Jose, "and now they just keep to themselves with their little t.v.'s (iPod videos to the tech-savy) and puzzle books. No more wierdness."

John Nash isn't so relieved by the puzzles, in fact he's insulted and is even threatening to sue Warner Brothers Distribution if the film does not change its namesake and the name of its main characters.