ARTNEWSPRESS: Warner Bros. has hired Suicide Squad and Fury director David Ayer to write and helm a remake of the action classic The Dirty Dozen. The film will also be produced by Simon Kinberg of the X-Men franchise. Warner Bros. has another remake of a classic movie in the works as well, with Mel Gibson developing The Wild Bunch.
The original Robert Aldrich-directed The Dirty Dozen was released in 1967 and starred Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes, Robert Ryan, Telly Savalas, Robert Webber, and Donald Sutherland.
The film is based on the E.M. Nathanson novel that was inspired by a real group called the Filthy Thirteen. The story involved a top secret mission that was set into motion before the Normandy Invasion. It followed a group of hardened Army prisoners who “were trained to conduct a suicide mission, to stage an assault on a chateau in Brittany where dozens of high ranking German officers are meeting. The hope is that eliminating the leaders will help with the pending D-Day invasion. Those who survive are offered pardons.”
I loved the original film, and it’s going to be hard for Ayer to make a better one. I personally don’t think he’ll be able to pull off a film that’s better than the original, but I’m sure that he’ll still deliver a crazy and entertaining action film.
What do you think about Ayer developing a remake for The Dirty Dozen?
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Joey Paur
