Dad's Army is coming back, this time as a film, staring Catherine Zeta Jones – the first woman to take the lead in the military comedy.

She will play a journalist sent in to report on the platoon, whose line-up includes Sir Tom Courtenay, Sir Michael Gambon and Bill Nighy.

It seems like most people aren't too happy about the surprising choice.

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One Twitter user wrote, 'Catherine Zeta Jones in Dad's Army. What is the world coming to?'

While another asked, 'Will this be a) terrible b) horrible c) dire?'

From Emma Thompson's Peter Rabbit, to Twin Peaks – it's a time for revamps.
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