All the Halo 3 news that's fit to print | Add to My AOL, MyYahoo, Google, Bloglines Add to: My AOL, MyYahoo, Google, Bloglines Zak Penn is Writing Dirty Dozen Remake Posted Jul 6th 2007 9:01AM by Christopher Campbell Filed under: Action Adventure, MGM, Warner Brothers, Scripts Screenwriting, Remakes and Sequels, Bondcast, War As if he didn't have too many comic book adaptations to write, Zak Penn ( ) has been named as the new screenwriter of Joel Silver's remake of , which we unfortunately heard about early last year. Originally it was reported that the movie was being scripted by three high-profile writers, Andr Nemec, Josh Appelbaum and Scott Rosenberg, but apparently their work isn't good enough and a rewrite is now necessary. Of course, one has to wonder why Silver needs to go through so many writers when there's already a perfectly good screenplay by Nunnally Johnson and Lukas Heller.

It isn't like too much needs to be updated; the movie is set in World War II. I'm not familiar with E.M.

Nathanson's original novel, though, and I guess the first movie may have omitted some things that the new adaptation could include. Anyway, I guess it just isn't common practice to reuse an old script when remaking an old movie. For those who haven't seen , it's about a group of military criminals sent on a suicide mission to assassinate Nazi officers.

It features an iconic ensemble of actors, most of whom were reunited to voice characters in as a sort of homage. To the faithful, it will be very, very difficult to see a new version without Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, Ernest Borgnine, Telly Savalas, Donald Sutherland, George Kennedy and the rest. I don't know what the time frame is for the production of the remake, but we may get to see it as early as next year.