Sony Pictures has acquired the film rights to the sci-fi novel series "The Electric Church" by Jeff Somers. Trevor Sands will pen the movie adaptation. Jimmy Miller at Mosaic will produce the project.

The Hollywood Reporter reports that the series is set in a near future where Earth is "run by a federation of nations and governed by a council. Cates is a bodyguard-assassin who, in “Church,” is forced by the governing police force to kill the founder of a church that converts people by transplanting their brains into pliant robotic bodies."