A-team: are they planning on doing an updated version?

Krieg · Oct 21, 2004

KenM said:
Who is Michael Vartan?

Played Micheal Vaughn in Alias.

Mercule · Oct 21, 2004

Ranger REG said:
Tommy Lee Jones as Hannibal
Michael Vartan as Face
Owen Wilson as "Mad Dog" Murdock
Dwayne Johnson (The Rock) as BA Baracus

Sold! I like that cast much better than any rumors I've heard.

I'd actually like to see a movie version of the A-Team. The premise was okay, despite some sanitized-for-TV cheese.

I have to agree with the people saying that it shouldn't be a spoof. Spoofing 80s TV was a tired concept before the first movie did it.

RatPunk · Oct 21, 2004

Ask and ye shall receive:

007 scribe is hired by THE A-TEAM
Bruce Feirstein to write movie script based on 80s TV show

Dateline: Tuesday, October 12, 2004

By: PATRICK SAURIOL
By: News Editor
Source: Variety

After writing three of the past four James Bond films, screenwriter Bruce Feirstein is moving on to chart the adventures of THE A-TEAM. The writer has been tapped by 20th Century Fox to find a way to turn the NBC TV series into a grittier, edgier action movie in the vein of LETHAL WEAPON or DIE HARD. Does that mean we can expect the big screen version of Hannibal Smith to swear at bad guys?

Stephen J. Cannell, the show's creator, has been trying to turn THE A-TEAM into a movie for a few years now. The hiring of Feirstein is probably the biggest step forward toward that goal.

For those of you that may have blocked it out from your memory, THE A-TEAM was a TV show that ran for four seasons in the mid-80s. George Pappard played the leader of four former Vietnam War era crack commandos that were tried for a crime that they didn't commit. They broke out of their military prison and made a beeline for Los Angeles where they live underground and hire out their services to average citizens in desperate need of soldiers of fortune. Dirk Benedict, Dwight Schultz and Mr. T played the other members of the Team.

No actors are attached to star in the project (being produced by Cannell and Spike Seldin) but it's possible that Mr. T could make a cameo in the movie. It's not like he's busy doing anything, right?

Mouseferatu · Oct 21, 2004

The Rock as BA?! Sorry, can't get behind that, much as I like him.

Ving Rhames is BA. There simply is no other option.

Krieg · Oct 22, 2004

Mouseferatu said:
Ving Rhames is BA. There simply is no other option.

If Michael Clarke Duncan could pull off the personality he would be a shoe-in....

....Unfortuanately I'm not sure that he could do it.

Ranger REG · Oct 22, 2004

Mouseferatu said:
Ving Rhames is BA. There simply is no other option.

Nah. I'd rather cast Ving as an antagonist. Either a villain or an MP officer on the trail of the A-Team.

mojo1701 · Oct 22, 2004

But there's got to be a difference in premise. Instead of 1972 when they busted out, it's going to be... 1992?

Ankh-Morpork Guard · Oct 22, 2004

mojo1701 said:
But there's got to be a difference in premise. Instead of 1972 when they busted out, it's going to be... 1992?

I think that would just change the whole feel though...I think sticking with the original premise is perfect.

Honestly though, Mr. T has to appear somewhere, even if just a quick cameo. Its just not the same without him somewhere.

mojo1701 · Oct 24, 2004

Ankh-Morpork Guard said:
I think that would just change the whole feel though...I think sticking with the original premise is perfect.

If they do change it, I'm thinking it'll be that they're veterans of the Gulf War instead of Nam. But you're right, if this is the case. I mean, different tactics for a different war.

Honestly though, Mr. T has to appear somewhere, even if just a quick cameo. Its just not the same without him somewhere.

Very true.

Klaus · Oct 24, 2004

With all due respect to Michael Clarke Duncan and Ving Rhames, the only one I can think of that embodies B.A. Baracus is Mighty Rasta:

http://www.mightyrasta.com/images/Stars4.1.jpg

Big, deep voice AND he's funny!