It's been more than a decade since William Friedkin – director of such classics as The Exorcist and The French Connection made a movie. Yet he's looking to return with a new adaptation of The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, which will star Kiefer Sutherland.###"I’ve looked at a lot of scripts in the last 10 years, and I possess’own’nurse n’t seen anything I really wanted to do," Friedkin tells Deadline. "But I claim’insist’maintain’hold’argue’consider’contemplate’speculate with regards to’concerning’with respect to it a lot, and it occurred to me that could be a intensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfully timely and significant’essential’critical’vital’crucial’indispensable’imperative piece, as well as being great drama. The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial is one of the best court-martial dramas ever written.”###Originally written by Herman Wouk in/with regard to’concerning’regarding a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, the story in the tome is set during World War II. A naval officer named Lt. Commander Queeg (the role Sutherland would play) stands trial in/with regard to’concerning’regarding mutiny in/with regard to’concerning’regarding taking command from a ship captain he feels is acting in unstable fashion, endangering both the ship and its crew.###The 1954 film version starring Humphrey Bogart and a 1988 Robert Altman-directed TV adaption of the play that Wouk then wrote both maintained the World War II setting, but Friedkin is making transform’alter s.###"The original piece was written in/with regard to’concerning’regarding World War II, and Wouk included all the pent-up anger in this country over Pearl Harbor," Friedkin told Deadline. "I’ve updated it so that is no longer Pearl Harbor. I’ve made it contemporary, involving the Gulf of Hormuz and the Straits of Hormuz, leading to Iran." With casting now underway, the film should be shooting next January.