A-Team Movie

[Potato]

New writer to help plan come together
David Crookes

The big screen version of The A-Team has gone back to the drawing board, series creator Stephen J Cannell has revealed to Empire. Bruce Feristein, an American writer who penned three of the four Brosnan Bond movies including Goldeneye, was drafted in to write the movie in 2004, but Cannell says a new script is about to be penned by a new writer.

Speaking exclusively to Empire, he said the new script will replace the half-dozen or so which have been written to date. "We were working on a script for a few years but I didn't like it so it's been thrown out," he said."We’ve gone through a lot of scripts that we haven’t been happy with for one reason or another.
We had one script writer who had never even watched the show! The studio was adament about employing him but he just took the title and began to write anything he wanted, completely departing from the original show. The studio didn’t like it and neither did I."

Although the identity of the new writer and details of the plot are unconfirmed, Cannell, who will be producing the film, has made no secret of the fact the 80s cult show will be updated for the new millennium. "I want to create it as taking place today. So the Gulf War could be a great angle. In the original, the A-Team were on the run after robbing a bank under orders just as the war ended. In this, maybe the four would raid Saddam Hussein’s bank or whatever."

But how will it better the chemistry of the original quartet of George Peppard (Hannibal), Mr T (BA Baracus), Dwight Schultz (Murdock) and Dirk Benedict (Faceman)? "I would like the original cast to play a part - to have their input into the movie and to star in cameo roles. As for who will play the new roles, I think Bruce Willis would make a good Hannibal!

"But I think the show needs retuning. I don’t know if BA can say ‘I pity the fool’ because that is so Mr T but Hannibal will certainly be saying, ‘I love it when a plan comes together.’ Little things like that will get a big laugh."

A release date has yet to be proposed but don’t expect to see the movie before 2008.

[Lord_of_the_Dense]

But how will it better the chemistry of the original quartet of George Peppard (Hannibal), Mr T (BA Baracus), Dwight Schultz (Murdock) and Dirk Benedict (Faceman)?

I'm sure our resident member can answer that.

[MoonMan]

the only reason I'd see this movie is for dwight schultz, because I'm a long time star trek fan.. even if his star trek character left something to be desired.

[Jared Moya]

An A-Team movie sounds terrible....whats next, a Different Strokes flic? :)

[Mels_Smileys45]

I know I posted about this before but I can't find what thread it was in. We even went so far as to try and make up the cast members. This and the Chips movie and gonna lick donkey nuts.

[Mels_Smileys45]

An A-Team movie sounds terrible....whats next, a Different Strokes flic? :)

There is a made for TV movie coming out real soon about Different Strokes! Its focusing on the real life People (crack heads) of the show.

[Potato]

There was a Different Strokes special the other night on NBC. Is that what you're talking about?

[Mels_Smileys45]

There was a Different Strokes special the other night on NBC. Is that what you're talking about?

Could be. I heard something was in the works but no details

[meyou123]

Well I watched the A Team, but I always thought it was so incredibly stupid to have people believe that with all the bullets they had comming out of their fully automatic machine guns, that NOBODY GOT HURT! They always hit the tire or something equally as stupid and the vehicle or whatever carrying the "bad guys" flipped over and they come crawling out without a scratch on them....yeah, riiiiight. I heard this was because Stephen J Canell felt there was too much violence on TV....so he makes a series about four vietnam vets helping people with machine guns???? Violence?? Well on the A Team nobody usually dies. But what a strange way to say that there is too much violence on TV!

I think a new movie portraying the same thing will suck big time.