News | Sony Pictures picks up the rights to The Electric Church

I saw that Sony Picture have picked up the rights to The Electric Church by Jeff Somers over at ComingSoon.Net and thought it was a rather interesting piece of information. Here's what they say:

Sony Pictures has picked up the rights to a series of sci-fi novels by Jeff Somers and has hired Trevor Sands to adapt the first book, "The Electric Church."
Jimmy Miller is producing the adaptation, which is working under the moniker of the The Avery Cates Project, named after the book's main character. Somers has so far written three books.

The Electric Church is published by Orbit in both the UK and the US, and although I've not read them they have an interesting premise and I must try and pick them up. Here's what's out so far:

In the System of Federated Nations, a new religion is growing fast. The Electric Church offers eternal life – the only catch is, you’ve got to be killed first. Millions have had their brains placed in advanced cybernetic bodies, making them immortal. But rumour has it that the new converts aren’t quite as willing as the Monks make out.
Avery Cates is a low-life contract killer, prepared to slit anyone’s throat for a few measly Yen. But even he gets the heebie-jeebies from the plasticised, eternally-serene stare of the Monks. He’ll have to come face to face with them soon enough though, because Cates is on the run from the System Cops and can only redeem himself by taking out the head of the Electric Church. That’s if the gun-toting, super-augmented cybernetic Monks don’t get to his own head first . . .

‘THIS IS AN ASSASSINATION. NOT YOURS. BUT AN ASSASSINATION NONE THE LESS.’
Avery Cates, criminal ‘king’ of New York, has climbed his way to the top of a heap of trouble. On his knees in the snow, with a gun to his head, Avery thinks this must finally be it. Instead, he is injected with nanotech and left confused but alive. Then everyone around him starts dying.
With every moment bringing humanity closer to extinction, Cates finds he will be either executioner or saviour of an entire world.

Avery Cates is a wanted man. After surviving the worst bioengineered disaster in history, Cates finds himself incarcerated - in Chengara Penitentiary. As Chengara has a survival rate of exactly zero, the System’s most famous gunner must do some serious plotting. And a betrayal or so later, he achieves his goal. At a price.
All he has to do next is defeat some new personal demons, forge some unlikely alliances, and figure out why the people he's killed lately just won't stay dead. Plus pull off the biggest assassination of his career . . .