Ridley Scott to remake The A-Team

[LexChaney]

If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire... The A-Team.

Taken from BBC

Ridley Scott to remake The A-Team

Director Ridley Scott has signed up to produce the big screen remake of 1980s TV show The A-Team, according to industry paper Variety.

The film, due out in 2010, will be updated so that the army veterans will have fought in the Middle East and not in Vietnam, Variety adds.

It says Joe Carnahan will direct and hopes to make a "popcorn movie" that "reflects on the real world".

The cult TV show starred George Peppard as Hannibal and Mr T as BA Baracus.

Dirk Benedict, as Face, and Dwight Schultz, as Murdoch, completed the quartet of mercenaries "accused of a crime they didn't commit".

Carnahan said 20th Century Fox had asked him "to make it as emotional, real and accessible as possible without cheesing it up", Variety added.

Actors including Bruce Willis and Ice Cube have been rumoured to be on board but no names have been confirmed.

I fucking love The A-Team so I'm pretty hyped that news about a film version is going around. Mr. T better have an apperance in it.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=0DTWGmcEY4Q

While not related I still had to post this.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=wyz_2DEah4o

Oh, related. The theme music to the A-Team.

Edited January 28, 2009 by Sexy Lexy

[sahyder1]

Loved the show but is it just me or wasn't there a failed movie not so long ago?

[ZJ Penn]

Yeah, there was something about a remake a while ago. Quinton Jackson was rumoured to be playing Mr T.

[Farmer Reil]

How can you make an A-Team movie and not "cheese it up"?

It's the A-Team. It is, essentially, a massive block of cheddar, with brie on top, in a cheese sauce. Served with cheese straws. With a cheesecake for dessert. And that's why it's awesome. A serious A-Team movie would SUCK.

Edited January 28, 2009 by Farmer Reil

[James Casey]

At one pint, Mel Gibson was rumoured to be in as Hannibal, and then more recently the Rock as BA...

But really, could anyone other than Dwight Schulz play Murdoch?

[LexChaney]

At one pint, Mel Gibson was rumoured to be in as Hannibal, and then more recently the Rock as BA...

But really, could anyone other than Dwight Schulz play Murdoch?

Nope. Only Schulz can play Murdoch and make him seem clever yet crazy.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

For some reason that I'm not quite sure of I think Ice Cube and Bruce Willis would actually kinda work. Willis has a good Hannibal smirk and I've got time for Ice Cube.

[Sousa]

I love it when a film comes together.

[GA!]

"Emotional, real and accessible as possible without cheesing it up?" Mr. Scott should watch the source material before signing up as producer, so he doesn't make stupid statements like that one. I get that The A-Team will need to be modernised to make it work, but they can't make this serious and undoubtedly stuff it with nine million references to 9/11. Surely they need to be looking at making it a family-friendly version of Bad Boys, if Bad Boys had a customizable van?

[LexChaney]

Hannibal was awesome when he used to dress up in The A-Team. Best one was Larry the Lizzard with a cigar in one hand. :lmao:

I think Willis could pull off being Hannibal.