Man, as a kid I just LOVED The A-Team. Imagine a show today about an elite military unit who could never actually hit anyone. But man, at the time it was pure gold… and it still is.
It was with great enthusiasm that I posted there would be an A-Team movie over 2 years ago, and since then it’s been pretty much silent. I was starting to wonder if the project was still even in the works. But then earlier today Nick from Empire wrote me to let me know about an article they have up about the A-Team movie and an interview with the creator of the show. Here are some of the tid bits from that interview:
“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.”
“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!
It’s a great little article and you should go give it a read. Personally, I always thought George Clooney would make a great Hanniball Smith. But yeah, I could see Bruce Willis in that role too, and I LOVE the idea of giving cameo’s to the original cast. Maybe have Dirk Benedict as Conel Decker or something like that. I just hope it doesn’t turn into another Starsky and Hutch joke.
