ALTERED CARBON - series on Netflix, books by author Richard Morgan. "They" bought the rights to Altered Carbon back in the early 2000's for A MILLION DOLLARS.
I have sold TV/Film rights to Hollywood. You do NOT get a million dollars. They never made the movie - I don't know what happened between the failure to launch and the final end product of the netflix series, but I do know this: THEY PANICKED when they saw those books. kek
BUT - major plot point in the first book - SERIOUS CULTURE WAR between the uber rich corporate assholes who want to live forever in the physical world and the religious purists who want to die with their soul intact. In the book, the purists are Catholic. Richard Morgan is not one of us - he hates all things religion - i.e. he hates even the idea of GOD. But he's not one of them either, he got canceled with JK Rowling for calling bullshit on the Trans community trying to pretend that biological sex doesn't exist.