Suicide Squad and Bright director David Ayer has signed on to direct a remake of the classic 1967 “men on a mission” war movie The Dirty Dozen for Warner Bros., Deadline has revealed.
According to the site, Ayer will rewrite a script originally penned by Marco Ramirez, and will be “injecting his own voice into the mix”, harking back to the spirit of his earlier scripts such as The Fast and the Furious and Training Day with a contemporary setting and a multicultural cast.
The original 1967 movie teamed the likes of Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes, Robert Ryan, Telly Savalas, Robert Webber and Donald Sutherland and followed a group of the United States Army’s worst prisoners, who were offered pardons subject to surviving a near-suicide mission to attack a chateau filled with high-ranking Nazies in the build up to D-Day. Think Suicide Squad with soldiers instead of supervillains and evil sorceresses.
Warner Bros. is hoping to fast track The Dirty Dozen, with the hope being that Ayer will direct as his next project, shooting at some point in 2020.
