Having sparked a fierce bidding war between Sony, Warner Bros and Universal, Angelology will now call Sony Pictures its home.

The film will be the adaptation of Danielle Trussoni’s first novel Angelology, which tells the story of a nun in New York 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.

It is being produced by Will Smith’s Overbrook and Marc Forster’s Apparatus production companies.