Ridley Scott to remake The A-Team

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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 adRAB.
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.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7856758.stm
 
There's no way they won't make it cheesy. It wouldn't be The A Team otherwise. They just have to keep it within certain bounRAB of realism as well, and something that can stand on its own and not just a parody of the series.

Didn't they cast BA ages ago? I'm sure it was a certainty that this guy was playing BA. And yeah Bruce Willis has also shown interest, supposedly, to take the Hannibal role.
 
I can't wait for this film but sorry Jim Carrey drives me nuts with his constant gurning. I do like the guy in straight roles though. I'd like to see the totally under rated Steve Buscemi play Murdoch
 
George Clooney has always stated his 2 dream roles were Danny Ocean and Hannibal from the A-Team. Surely he has to be the number 1 choice.

I'm not keen on Ice Cube, maybe LL Cool J, although this role is bound to attract interest from wrestlers. Christian Bale and Jim Carrey are probably too obvious I suppose but they were born for the roles of Face and Murdoch.
 
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