Oh I’m so pleased to make this my opening post. Deep breaths, calm fingers…
Details are sketchy just now, but according to Empire it does look like the premise of the show is the same, just a little updated for our more current wars. What is news is that they’ve bagged a screenwriter, Bruce Feirstein responsible for penning four Bond films (all during Pierce Brosnan‘s reign) and not much else. Apparently, the plan is to make it less cartoony and more in the style of a Lethal Weapon or Die Hard movie, more serious. Ahem. That’s the earlier films in both series folks.
Oh lord…and this is where I get worried. Wasn’t the counterpin of the whole plot that the team were locked in some farm shed surrounded by some baddies carrying rocket launchers and sub machine guns, while they were armed only with a welding torch, some straw bales, and an old tractor tyre, only to successfully create a large armoured personnel carrier which shot every one (but never killed nor drew blood) on their way to freedom and liberating the homeless children?
That was the fun, that was the best bit. That and “I ain’t getting on no plane…fool” (Who used the voice? Come on!) So to make it serious, doesn’t that take away everything from it?
Saving grace here though, Stephen J. Cannell is the original series creator and is back on board as the Producer. Oh, and that word is, Mr T will be making a cameo. Is there any way this can work? Hope…hope.
