The Dirty Dozen Remake Script Stinks to High Heaven?

Apparently the geeks over at Aint It Cool News has read an earlier draft for a contemporary remake of “The Dirty Dozen” (set in the present day, with Muslim terrorists as the bad guys, no less), and they think it’s so terrible that, quote, “Any director that takes this script is immediately a f**king worthless hack.” Wow, them’s fighting words, boys! But wait, they go on, proclaiming, “The script is f**king awful. The premise is f**king awful. This is a movie that gets made for one reason - the name…” So what are they saying exactly, that they DON’T like the script?

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But folks - there’s nothing in the script that ever even comes close to rivaling the original film. Any director that takes this script is immediately a f**king worthless hack. This movie does not need to get made, especially as a modern day, let’s kill every Muslim we see flick. Because apparently, any body they see on the mission should be considered an enemy and you should kill them. Yeah - that’s the sort of s**t we need to see more of. Right?

Kinda sounds like the site’s main objection isn’t that the script will blow, but that it dares to re-set the film’s era and it refuses to broach the whole Muslim terrorist angle with any subtlety. Which begs the question: “Dudes, it’s a movie about a bunch of convicts who gets a chance at freedom by going on a suicide mission. Seriously, you want intellectual stabs at International politics and War on Terror theories from THIS movie?”

In any case, the script under review was written by Josh Appelbaum, Andre Nemec and Scott Rosenberg, and according to this earlier story, the script is already being rewritten by Zak Penn, so who knows…