Sony Goes To THE ELECTRIC CHURCH!!

Merrick here...
Sony has optioned a series of books by Jeff Somers built around a character called Avery Cates.

Somers has so far written three books, all 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.

...says The Hollywood Reporter HERE. Jimmy Miller (GET SMART, LAND OF THE LOST) will producer the film from an adaptation by Trevor Sands (who recently adapted HYPERION as well. You can find Somers' Avery Cates books HERE.
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