The Wild Geese gets remake

I've never heard of The Wild Geese. Apparently it was a late 70's war movie about a group of British mercenaries who are contracted to free an African leader. Sounds like a pretty cool plot and then when you see that Richard Burton, Richard Harris and Roger Moore led the film, then I wonder what I'm waiting for typing this up... and why I'm not out hunting down the original. Hollywood Gang Productions are the shingle behind the remake and they are currently in talks with Warner Brothers, where producer Gianna Nunnari worked on 300. The remake of this rather forgotten movie came about when Nunnari spoke to director Rupert Sanders, who both remarkably said it was their favourite film. So of course, they want to remake it just for their own pleasure of doing so and leaving us with a product that is probably half as good as the original. Well, that's usually the way these things go anyway, I can't really say for sure because I haven't seen how good the original is. Sanders said this to Variety....

"It has it all: great characters, action, plot twists and revenge...We are making a tough film, taking ex-British soldiers from the murky London underworld to the battlefields in Africa."

I do like the idea of it and with The Dirty Dozen remake and Inglorious Bastards there does seem to be a movement on bringing this mercenary/war team movies back to the big screen. Who for the cast then? Well Jason Statham seems a must. Vinnie Jones perhaps?