Dirty Dozen News

Zak Penn Not Afraid of Getting "Dirty"

July 06, 2007 12:07:27

Ready to give his touch on the project, "X-Men: The Last Stand" scribe Zak Penn has come onboard to carry out a rewrite on "Dirty Dozen", a Warner Bros. Pictures remake of the 1967 actioner featuring Lee Marvin as a major who conscripts twelve condemned soldier-prisoners for a dangerous mission in WWII.

The screenplay, developed to contemporize the original storyline, initially had Scott Rosenberg to work on alongside Andre Nemec and Josh Appelbaum. Rosenberg, a graduate of Boston University and UCLA, is widely known for being the screenwriter of "Con Air" while both Nemec and Appelbaum are recognized to be the writer-producers of ABC's hit spy-fi series "Alias."

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