Warren Adler

Warren Adler’s Thriller TORTURE MAN in the Works as a Movie

Warren Adler’s Grey Eagle Films has tapped Hernany Perla to adapt Adler’s upcoming thriller “Torture Man” as a movie.

Perla’s credits include the Blacklist script “Blink,” set up with Atlas Independent, along with “Revelations” at Lotus Entertainment. Adler is best known for writing the novel “The War of the Roses,” which was adapted into a 1989 movie starring Kathleen Turner, Michael Douglas and Danny DeVito.

“Torture Man” follows a former CIA operative and a prominent anti-war activist whose 11-year old daughter is kidnapped by Islamist terrorists for a $10 million ransom.

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