No, we're not talking Chuck Norris' old Texas Ranger hero Lone Wolf McQuade, or even that vengeance-crazed Itto Ogami from Lone Wolf and Cub.

We're in fantasy adventure territory here, folks, and that means Joe Dever's line of classic Lone Wolf game books from the 1980s.

You know, those books where you get the choose the outcome by skipping to specific chapters, pages or passages depending on what you think the characters should do.

Well, Variety reports that Lone Wolf will become a modestly-budgeted US$30mil-$35mil (RM108mil-RM126mil) movie thanks to Convergence Entertainment, which has acquired the live-action movie rights to the series.

Lone Wolf adventures took place in the land of Magnamund, and tell of a warrior monk's efforts to avenge his order after evil forces destroy it.