After directing a comic book movie about a team of convicts who get sent on a suicide mission (a “suicide squad”, if you will), David Ayer is circling a remake of one of the movies that inspired it. Robert Aldrich’s 1967 film The Dirty Dozen is an action movie classic that spawned many imitators in its day and also, more recently, inspired Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds. Now Warner Brothers is setting up a remake of the movie although from what we are hearing it will not retain the original film’s WWII setting. Hit the jump to find out what we know.

According to THR, David Ayer is in negotiations to write and direct a new version of The Dirty Dozen for Warner Brothers. Although Ayer already has experience directing a WWII movie with Fury, the plan is to update the movie to a contemporary setting. Simon Kinberg, best known overseeing Fox’s X-Men franchise, is attached to produce.

The original film featured an ensemble cast that included Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes, George Kennedy, Telly Savalas and Donald Sutherland. The expectation for a remake would be to recruit a similar star-studded line-up, not unlike the recent Magnificent Seven remake. Ayer’s next movie will be the gritty street crime thriller The Tax Collector starring Shia LaBeouf. Do you think David Ayer is an inspired choice to helm a new version of The Dirty Dozen?