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In patriotic (or at least military-training-themed) remake news, Taps, the post-minority but pre-female Citadel-scandals-in-the-news cadet academy flick that helped the nascent careers of Tom Cruise, Sean Penn, Timothy Hutton, and more significantly, Giancarlo Esposito, will receive a new treatment from Fox, set for 2009. No word on casting, but the director will be the lazy-scriptwriting-hitman-named Frank E. Flowers.

Producer is John Davis, also producing the upcoming Sims movie.

If Taps does well, can a Lords of Discipline remake be far behind?