Professionalism

Neil Marshall ("The Descent," "Doomsday") told the folks at Empire.that he will direct a film adaptation of classic late 70's British TV cop series "The Professionals",

The hard-hitting action series from Brian Clemens followed CI5, a law enforcement department allowed to use any (and invariably illegal) means to solve serious crimes that didn't fall under the purview of the secret service or military.focuseed on two of the best agents (Martin Shaw and Lewis Collins) a hotheaded but compassionate ex-detective constable, and a patient but ruthless ex-SAS mercenary. Together they tackled terrorists, hitmen, racist groups and espionage suspects.

Marshall says he wants to modernize the premise - "They deal with anti-terrorism, assassinations, political intrigue. The slogan, or kind of the tagline for the film, is 'Fight fire with fire' and that was their whole thing... Primarily, its going to be an exciting movie, but there's an inherent political angle on the story. We want to contemporise it but keep everything that made the original great, just turn it into a real wham-bam rip-roaring adventure movie."

A script is being written already

Marshall is also attached to helm the Sam Raimi-produced splatter pic "Burst 3-D"