Sony Pictures acquired the film rights to a series of sci-fi novels by Jeff Somers and chose Trevor Sands to adapt the first book, The Electric Church (Orbit, $12.99, 9780316021722/0316021725). Jimmy Miller is producing the adaptation, which has the working title The Avery Cates Project (after the book's main character), according to the Hollywood Reporter.
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Christopher Kyle (Alexander) will write the film adaptation of The Seven Sins: The Tyrant Ascending (Forge, $7.99, 9780765354389/0765354381). The author has said the lead character--Michael "The Tyrant" Tiranno, adopted son of an Italian crime lord
who must defend Las Vegas from terrorist attacks--is "loosely inspired" by the life of Fabrizio Boccardi, the investor, producer and CEO of King Midas World Entertainment, which licensed the film rights to producers Moritz Borman and Peter Graves through Tyrant One Imperium Pictures, the Hollywood Reporter wrote.