B.A. is back

[Perry White]

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117982696.html?categoryid=13&cs=1&nid=2562

'A-Team' on Fox's slate
Film version to be released on June 12, 2009

Twentieth Century Fox has skedded John Singleton's film version of 1980s TV series "The A-Team" for release on June 12, 2009.

Singleton will direct the action-adventure from a script by writing partners Michael Brandt and Derek Haas ("Wanted," "3:10 to Yuma").

Film will bring to the bigscreen the exploits of Hannibal Smith and his team of former special forces soldiers, who have been set up for a crime they didn't commit.

Casting hasn't been announced.

Already set to open on June 12, 2009 is Paramount's Eddie Murphy comedy "Nowhereland."

Any casting ideas?

 

[outofplace]

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117982696.html?categoryid=13&cs=1&nid=2562

'A-Team' on Fox's slate
Film version to be released on June 12, 2009

Twentieth Century Fox has skedded John Singleton's film version of 1980s TV series "The A-Team" for release on June 12, 2009.

Singleton will direct the action-adventure from a script by writing partners Michael Brandt and Derek Haas ("Wanted," "3:10 to Yuma").

Film will bring to the bigscreen the exploits of Hannibal Smith and his team of former special forces soldiers, who have been set up for a crime they didn't commit.

Casting hasn't been announced.

Already set to open on June 12, 2009 is Paramount's Eddie Murphy comedy "Nowhereland."

Any casting ideas?

Katee Sackhoff as Templeton Peck.

Hey, if they can do it to Starbuck.....

 

[CentralIllinoisan]

Aaron Eckhardt as Face?

 

[Omar_dont_scare]

Kimbo Slice as Mr. T!

 

[BYH]

I can't tell you how much I hate the word skedded.

And this is going to suck. these big-budget remakes of '80s schlock lack the blissfully unaware cheese factor of the originals.

 

[CentralIllinoisan]

I'd like to see Tarantino do an 80s TV remake ... he'd definitely slather on the cheese. :D

 

[BYH]

now THAT might work!

 

[kokane_muthashed]

I think I read somewhere that Ice Cube may play B.A. and with the Singleton connection, it makes sense.

 

[Rumpleforeskin]

They better not butcher the original A-Team feel. You know, with people dying and stuff.

 

[DanOregon]

L.T. or Michael Clarke Duncan as BA? Ice Cube would work though, he needs to swear more in his movies. I'd love to see somebody like Kurt Russell, Jeff Daniels or Jeff Bridges in the Hannibal role. Though I doubt Bridges would be interested.

 

[Rumpleforeskin]

L.T. or Michael Clarke Duncan as BA? Ice Cube would work though, he needs to swear more in his movies. I'd love to see somebody like Kurt Russell, Jeff Daniels or Jeff Bridges in the Hannibal role. Though I doubt Bridges would be interested.

If Ice Cube takes his swearing in his movies like he does in his live shows, you may be blushing. I saw him live recently and yeah, he can silence sailors.

 

[dooley_womack1]

****, why not Mr. T? It is impossible to imagine anyone else in that role. And he is still in good enough shape for it.

 

[kokane_muthashed]

****, why not Mr. T? It is impossible to imagine anyone else in that role. And he is still in good enough shape for it.

Doesn't he walk around with a cane now because of the damage all those gold chains did to his back?

 

[Buck]

****, why not Mr. T? It is impossible to imagine anyone else in that role. And he is still in good enough shape for it.

Doesn't he walk around with a cane now because of the damage all those gold chains did to his back?

It's a real shame. I pity the fool.

 

[hockeybeat]

****, why not Mr. T? It is impossible to imagine anyone else in that role. And he is still in good enough shape for it.

Doesn't he walk around with a cane now because of the damage all those gold chains did to his back?

It's a real shame. I pity the fool.

Can Buck play the pilot?

 

[imjustagirl]

Aaron Eckhardt as Face?

That's a fantastic call.

 

[outofplace]

Aaron Eckhardt as Face?

That's a fantastic call.

I can see it. Just give the character from "Thank You for Smoking" a gun and teach him to fire off a ridiculous number of shots without actually hitting anything and you're good to go.

 

[TigerVols]

I have it on strong authority that Ice Cube is playing BA and Woody Harrelson has signed on as Mad Dog Murdock

 

[Giggity]

In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn'’t commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum-security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire ... the… A-Team.

 

[pressboxer]

George Clooney as Hannibal