Variety reports that
David Morrell's espionage novel
The Brotherhood of the Rose has been picked up by Warner Brothers. The book has previously been turned into a NBC
mini-series in the late 80's but this is the first time a full length feature has been planned.
Story centers on two orphans raised by a CIA operative to be assassins, only to become targets themselves. Tome was first published in 1984, with the NBC mini following five years later. Two-parter starred Robert Mitchum, Peter Strauss and Connie Sellecca.
Ok, so you might not have seen that mini-series and you might not have read the novel but you have seen the first
Rambo movie right? Morrell was the guy who wrote the first novel in the Rambo series, which later became a huge successful franchise for
Sylvester Stallone. There's no word on whether the novel is planned to be updated for current times as the book is set in a Cold War setting.