Newsbites: The religious themes edition!

1. Sony has acquired the film rights to Danielle Trussoni’s Angelology, a novel described as a cross between The Da Vinci Code (2006) and National Treasure (2004-2007). It concerns a 23-year-old nun who “unwittingly reignites an ancient war between Angelologists, a group who studies angels, and a race of monster-like descendants of angels and humans called the Nephilim”; she then teams up with an angelologist “in a search for ancient artifacts that are the only things that can stop the Nephilim.” It sounds like Trussoni doesn’t subscribe to the theory that the Nephilim were basically the Hebrew equivalent of the ancient Greek demigods. — Variety (x2), Hollywood Reporter

2. Martin Scorsese may be thinking of shooting his adaptation of Shusako Endo’s Silence in New Zealand. — New Zealand Herald

3. Crackle.com will host a special sneak preview of the biblical comedy Year One after an ad for the film plays during the Super Bowl this Sunday. — ComingSoon.net