Suicide Squad and Fury director David Ayer has reportedly been set by Warner Brothers to direct a new version of The Dirty Dozen.
Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes, Robert Ryan, Telly Savalas, Robert Webber and Donald Sutherland led the cast of the 1967 movie, which was based on E. M. Nathanson’s novel of the same name.
The 1967 movie revolved around a US Army Major who is assigned a dozen convicted murderers to train and lead them into a mass assassination mission of German officers in World War II.
The new one will be written and directed by Ayer, though will be contemporary with a multi-cultural diverse cast, so reports Deadline.
A script already exists by Marco Ramirez and Ayer will get to work rewriting it. The plan is to have the movie rolling sometime in 2020.
Simon Kinberg will produce. More as it comes in.
