'A-Team' on Fox's slate

[BENDIS!]

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

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."

[Bryan H]

No T?

He can still do it!

[Drkemerld73]

:boogie:

[BCD]

Not to be too Jerry Seinfeld, but what's the deal with the A-Team?

That was directed at the guy with the Hannibal Smith avatar.

[BENDIS!]

i know some gossip on this. you guys are going to spazz.

[Alex K.]

"skedded" sounds like something two girls might do with one cup.

[NickT]

i know some gossip on this. you guys are going to spazz.
Good or bad spazz?

[James Patrick]

Ving Rhames or Michael Clark Duncan!

[Drkemerld73]

Good or bad spazz?

Seconded.

[ZombieSpeedball]

i know some gossip on this. you guys are going to spazz.

You and you're inside sources!

[Taxman]

Katee Sackhoff will play Face . . . uhm . . .man.

[Bryan H]

Ving Rhames is playing BA though, right? I think he pretty much has to.

[Drkemerld73]

Steve Buscemi as 'Howling Mad' Murdock? :mistrust:

[Taxman]

Ving Rhames is playing BA though, right? I think he pretty much has to.Ving could play Hannibal.

[Susan BANthony]

I called it!


So, is it time to bring back the MurDazzler avatar?

[BENDIS!]

Good or bad spazz?

good. i did.

[Taxman]

Casting hasn't been announced.imdb is listing already Woody Harrlelson as Murdock and Ice Cube as Baracus.

Probably bogus, but I would be the last one to laugh at the re-teaming of Singleton and Ice Cub.

[NickT]

good. i did.
Excellent :)


I'm going to guess Mel Gibson as Hannibal and Ving Rhames as BA. Bet I'm 0/2 :)

[Hock]

Ving Rhames is playing BA though, right? I think he pretty much has to.

:no:

Ving Rhames or Mr. T. either one would be suitable.

what about Matt Frewer as Murdock?

[silverboy]

Singleton is never going to get around to Cage or Black Panther.

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[William Joseph Dunn]

i know some gossip on this. you guys are going to spazz.

Bendis is playing Hannibal.

[dj127]

i want the T!

[Kingsumo]

*sigh* I would really like to be excited about this. But with a slim few exceptions, this whole, let's take the 60's - 80's tv shows and make them movies is really kind of sad.

[trevor hale]

i want the T!

On first glance I thought that said you wanted T.I. That would be some good casting.

[DanLTaylor]

John Singleton? Alright.

[dougmac]

Excellent :)


I'm going to guess Mel Gibson as Hannibal and Ving Rhames as BA. Bet I'm 0/2 :)

Gibson was attached to this at some point, but I think it was as a producer not an actor.

[ThisSpaceForRent]

i know some gossip on this. you guys are going to spazz.

Ashton Kutcher as Hannibal? Already public knowledge.

[Nick Spencer]

Just saying, this has long been known as one of George Clooney's Top 3 Dream projects.

[edwardmblake]

Shut up, fool! You ain't know fish!

[Evan Wiener]

Oooh Clooney would make a great Hannibal. Or Face...

They better use the original theme song. Seriously, that and Mission Impossible had the best themes.

[CapnChaos]

William Shatner as Hannibal. You know you want it.

I love it when a plan.... comes together.

[Drkemerld73]

William Shatner as Hannibal. You know you want it.

I love it when a plan.... comes together.

:lol:

[sonnylarue]

another story about the film



The A-Team Countdown Begins
By Joal Ryan
Mon Mar 24, 5:14 AM PDT

If you've been holding your breath for The A-Team movie, well, we feel sorry for you.

But help is on the way for you and your oxygen-deprived brain. So just hold on. Until June 12. Of next year. Feel better? You should, actually.

The release date, as reported by Variety, is the first for the long-discussed, long-suffering project.

John Singleton, who last yelled cut on Four Brothers, will direct; Michael Bandt and Derek Haas, who helped shoot the lights out with 3:10 to Yuma, are writing the screenplay.

As reported, the movie will follow the basic recipe of the 1983-87 TV series: Take four ex-military men; add one war crime they didn't commit; mix in chases, pursuits and more chases.

Given the source material, Singleton has promised an action movie, a serious action movie—"wall to wall kicking ass and talking s--t," as he put it to Collider.com. The film presently is sans actors, A-list, B-team or otherwise, as Singleton himself has made very clear.

"I don't know who is in the cast yet, so all this bulls--t of who is saying who is this person and who is [this person]," Singleton told Collider.com.

Singleton did allow that he "really, really want[s]" Woody Harrelson to play "Howling Mad" Murdoch, the sanity challenged pilot given life on the TV series by Dwight Schultz.

In the interview, conducted in January, Singleton sounded a lot like a man who's been a little bit hounded by fans demanding to know who's going to play Mr. T.

"Nobody is playing Mr. T—the character's name is B.A. Baracus," the filmmaker reminded.

And, no, before you bother Mr. Singleton again, B.A. Baracus hasn't been cast yet, either. Ice Cube, however, has thrown his Mohawk into the ring.

"Hell yeah," the Barbershop multitasker recently told blackfilm.com when asked if he'd consider copping a "Bad Attitude," as it were, "especially with John Singleton directing!"

And, yes, we know Ice Cube doesn't really have a Mohawk to throw into a ring. But that could change.

"I wouldn't try to duplicate what Mr. T did," he told the Website. "I'm going to bring my own flavor to it, and I am going to do the Mohawk."

The race seems wide open for the roles of Col. "Hannibal" Smith, the disguise-handy ringleader, and the smooth-talking "Face" Peck, played on the TV series by the late George Peppard and the still-plugging-away Dirk Benedict, respectively.

Even with the cast undetermined, an announced director and a release date marks the furthest along the movie has gotten since the project started raising hopes nearly 10 years ago amid a spate of TV-to-film conversions, à la Charlie's Angels, The Mod Squad and Wild Wild West. Per the calendar keepers at the Internet Movie Database, on June 12, 2009, the big-screen A-Team will go head-to-head with an Eddie Murphy comedy called NowhereLand. Which is about where The A-Team movie used to live.

Given how stiff Singleton's Shaft was (pun intended) , I hope he's the right guy for this job.

[PimpSlapStick!]

Ving Rhames was born to play B.A. Barracus

[Taxman]

Given how stiff Singleton's Shaft was (pun intended) , I hope he's the right guy for this job.What did you think of Boyz n the Hood?

[Maestro]

George Peppard should play Hannibal

[PimpSlapStick!]

If it's a comedy I'd give it to the Apatow team, if it's a serious take Michael Mann

[sonnylarue]

George Peppard should play Hannibal

very dead

[Susan BANthony]

God dammit, this should not be a serious movie. It should be goofy as fuck, pretty much like the original show.