The Electric Church may be heading to a cinema near you, thanks to Sony Pictures who've picked up the movie rights to Jeff Somers' novel and the other two books in his cult sci-fi series.
Set in a dystopian future ruled by an Orwellian council that exercises its will through the sinister System Security Force (SFF), The Electric Church follows hitman Avery Cates who's forced to go on the run after killing an SFF croony. Luckily, Cates is taken in by a monk from the titular Church who offers him not just protection but salvation. Unluckily, salvation will, for all intents and purposes, turn him into a zombie. To make matters worse, the powers-that-be demands he kill the head of the Church.
Sony have handed the task of turning all this into movie form to Trevor Sands who's also adapting Hyperion, another futuristic science-fiction novel for Warner Bros. and it's safe to say will soon be up to his eyeballs in dystopias.
While a sci-fi set in a future that *isn't *dystopian might be nice at some point, this one sounds kinda intriguing, with shades of Orwell, Neal Stephenson and Philip K. Dick. And, with luck, tonnes of shooting.
So roll up Somers' fans and let us know who should be cast as Avery Cates...