The A-Team: The Movie (2009)

rumored: Ice Cube as B.A.

rumored: Ice Cube as B.A.

Awesome! I say: Owen Wilson as "Howling Mad" Murdock.

Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal

Lance LeGault as Lance LeGault

Cate Blanchette as Face

Dirk Benedict as Face

They can be both. Dual role. Worked for Cate and Bob Dylan.

Robert Downey Jr. as B.A.

Don Johnson as "Snake"

surely they'll update the era, eh?

...wanted by the government for a crime they didn't commit during operation desert storm

They could do a "Zorro" and have Dirk as "Old Face", training a younger guy to be "New Face". Maybe spin it off into a reality TV show/BBC1 talent contest called "New Faces"... oh wait a minute...

http://www.impawards.com/1997/posters/face_off.jpg

Dwight Schultz as Lt. Reg Barclay

"Rowdy" Roddy Piper as Hercules and Love Connection

I only just noticed that John Singleton's the director! (Having not actually clicked on the initial link until now.)

http://www.starland.com/sf-sc/sf06/images/060207Benedict2.jpg

Katee Sackhoff as Face

The Villain:

http://www.geocities.com/jackiechanfans/jcset.jpg

Hey, just thought of this:

Stargate SG-1 team as the A-Team

Carter could be female Face, as she seems to have a way of enchanting villainy types.

Dixie Carter?

she was kind of a bitch on diffrent strokes

philip could do better.

The fact that they’re giving this a summer release date though is somewhat significant. It means that Fox knows The A-Team comes with plenty of explosions, and so regardless of whether it’s bad or good audiences will show up to see it in droves, particularly if it’s hot outside and they’ve just eaten red meat.

lulz

Hannibal should so be Clooney.

Oops:

Way back in August, I sat down with Ice Cube and heard how eager he was to work with Bruce Willis in a remake of "The A-Team" being directed by John Singleton. But the rapper/actor/producer was worried that the writers strike might undermine the effort. Looks like it did, because now Singleton is out and the project is moving forward with a new team that may or may not be interested in Cube taking on the challenge of replacing Mr. T in the role of B.A. Baracus. In the trades today, Michael Fleming has an informative update on the revamped project: "Twentieth Century Fox has assembled a creative team to transform 1980s TV series 'The A-Team' into a summer 2010 film. Studio has set Joe Carnahan to direct and Ridley Scott to produce, with Tony Scott exec producing through their Scott Free banner. Also producing are Jules Daly and Stephen J. Cannell, the latter of whom created the original TV series. Carnahan will team with Brian Bloom to polish a script by Skip Woods ('G.I. Joe'). The intention is to start production by June for a June 11, 2010, release. Fox has struggled to find a way to exploit the branded TV show while avoiding the series' campy tone. Director John Singleton had most recently been attached to such an attempt before dropping out. Woods came in and started over. 'Tony and I feel that marrying this Scott Free project with Joe's sensibility will result in a fast-paced, exciting franchise, one we hope will be around for years to come,' Scott said. Carnahan and the Scott brothers say they will use the original premise of the series as the template for an action film. In the original, four Vietnam vets convicted of armed robbery escape from military prison and became do-gooder mercenaries. The Middle East will replace Vietnam as the place the four did their tour of duty, but Carnahan said the origin story is the jumping-off point. 'You can ... make a film that reflects on the real world without losing the great sense of fun and the velocity of action in a classic summer popcorn film,' Carnahan said." [Daily Variety]

Fox has struggled to find a way to exploit the branded TV show while avoiding the series' campy tone.

oh god does that mean they're trying to make it like the Dark Knight?

faceman won't be happy.

they should get katee sackhoff to play his part.

David Tennant as face

fuck hollywood

Dwight Schultz as a guy you thought would be a liberal, but turns out to be the host of a right wing radio show...

Liam Neeson is in negotiations with 20th Century Fox to star in its long-gestating bigscreen adaptation of "The A-Team" as Col. John "Hannibal" Smith. Bradley Cooper is in early talks to play Lt. Templeton "Faceman" Peck in the Joe Carnahan-directed pic based on the 1980s TV series.

Production begins in late August for a June 11, 2010, release.

When I was in middle school and this was the biggest show in the world, I thought it was about the most idiotic thing ever.

...turn...turn..turn...

http://www.movieline.com/2009/10/buzz-break-10-23.php

http://i35.tinypic.com/2rylnk0.jpg

At least two of those look just like Seth Green.

i thought that image was shopped at first

liam neeson looks fucking gangster, will watch this

The Hangover 2: Very Fucked Up

I'll watch it. What would a summer be without disappointment?

I like how quickly Sharlto Copley has become part of the machine.

Liam Neeson doesn't look as Liam Neeson-esque as I would have thought.

On a Britisher note: Face looks like Nick Knowles, not cool.

At least it isn't Harry Knowles.

Trailer 'leaked': http://vimeo.com/8616405

Would like to know how they got BA in all those planes.

the 'shooting from a tank falling from the sky' image suitably wtf for me to now want to see this.

the last twenty seconds of that are purest WTF

Liam Neeson as George Peppard! Bradley Cooper as Starbuck! Some mixed martial arts guy as Mr. T! A leaked trailer!

http://vimeo.com/8616405

Can this be anything but terrible amazing campy summer movie fun?

God damnit.

hahahahahahahaha

Even if this turns out to be a crap movie, the total WTFness of it outdoes even last year's Star Trek.

"Some mixed martial arts guy"

Hey, at first I thought it was Terry Crews.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqIfdJ5h6Uk

p.s. what fresh hell

http://a-team-movie-trailer.blogspot.com/

This is going to be absolute shit and Rampage Jackson completely obliterated his MMA career over it.

the 'shooting from a tank falling from the sky' image suitably wtf for me to now want to see this.

Definitely.

Just as long as these guys don't show up half way through...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbikMxihtoU

I kind of get the impression that these filmmakers and actors are completely in on the total absurdity joke, kind of like the last Die Hard movie. If that's the case, I'm way down with going to see this on opening day.

I'm hoping this will fill a certain GI Joe-sized hole in my heart

expecting this to be better than "G.I. Joe" is a sign of madness

It WILL be better than the GI Joe movie by virtue of not having Channing Tatum in it.

http://www.comingsoon.net/nextraimages/ateampic1small.jpg

yeah but the flipside to that coin is not having

http://goldenboat.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/rachel_nichols_gi_joe_photo_1.jpg

Fools, pitied:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYvhqct2FMQ

i will watch this

My heart cried a little bit seeing the van get demolished.

xp Then at the cinema you will be in an audience made up of three distinct groups:

- 10 year old boys shouting "wooooooooah yeah!!!"
- 18 year old lads shouting "wooooooooah yeah!!!"
- 35 something men shouting "wooooooooah yeah!!!"

For the follow-up movie perhaps they can remake this episode:

http://agonybooth.com/agonizer/A_Team/Wheel_of_Fortune.aspx

http://riotclitshave.com/2010.06/002c1639.jpg

Is that from an episode of Pit Boss?

BA has a creepy thousand yard stare going on.

This was so fucking awful. Full of plot holes bigger than the van, awful dialogue, shitty CGI, just ugh. I wasn't expecting a great movie, but this wasn't campy enough to be fun. There was some camp, yes, but it tried to take itself too seriously as it went on. My favorite plot hole was the cargo ship that was able to sail from Germany to Los Angeles in less than 48 hours.

I actually liked this, despite the ship timeline mishap.

Rampage Jackson probably plays a better Mr. T than Mr. T would now (without being a carbon copy). Dude was THE perfect choice for the role. Other casting was good too, although Liam Neeson's voice is so overbearing and he has SO many lines. For once, I didn't hate Jessica Biel.

basically tanked

my feeling is that the target demo (i.e. me, people my age) is t0tally

http://www.big-t-shirts.com/ProdImages/big/792.jpg

on this. 'hot tub time machine' also kinda tanked. kind of had enough 80s revivalism at this point.

Tanking = coming in 2nd place now?

in this case, given the development costs, yeah

The casting was good, I won't argue that, but Neeson's American accent was terrible. And I actually hated Biel in this more than usual. I guess I just wish it would have kept up the tone of the first 10 minutes, what with the "Somewhere Else in Mexico..." tag and everything. I just felt like it tried to take itself too seriously. And the "flying the tank" part? WTF.

Two things the film missed that I really wanted to see:
1. The team trapped and having to improvise some sort of explosive device/battering ram out of a tractor and old gas tanks.
2. Some small town farm family being harassed by some weird, militant development company.

i will watch this

― Jesse James Woods (darraghmac), 01 April 2010 14:38 (2 months ago) Bookmark

somewhere along the line i changed my mind on this

It's not quite as wink-and-nod at the audience as that earlier trailer led me to believe. I was expecting something kind of like Die Hard 4, where the filmmakers were totally in on the absurdity. The A-Team would've been fantastic if they'd used the same approach. As it is, though, I've seen far worse action films.

more shocked that karate kid did great than that this wasn't a smash (nu mr t was oddly muted in trailer, people probably couldn't figure out if this was a "macgruber" thing or a "gi joe" thing)

beginning to look worryingly like a 'bad boys 2' thing

i was gonna say, lol @ drawing the conclusion that people are done with 80s revivalism after a weekend in which a Karate Kid reboot made 50+ mil

idk, i don't think it was marketed in that way (ie to people who can remember the og)

The KK reboot seems to be so consciously different (aside from cornerstone plot points) that I can't even figure out why they bothered to use the name. Except to make $$, of course.

the margin between how much KK was faithful to the original or traded on its brand vs. A-Team doing same seems pretty negligible imo

did the trailer have 'wax on, wax off'?

cuz the a-team one was all "I LOVE IT WHEN A PLAN COMES TOGETHER"

idk if the US has "orange wednesdays" ads but basically

did the A-Team trailer have "I pity the fool"? (xpost)

I mean I'll concede that A-Team played on nostalgia MORE but I feel like we're talking a different of like 40% vs. 60% or something

LOL in middle school my friend Tony thought it was 'i pitted a fool'.

I dunno. The A-Team is pretty much just a giant budget version of the tv show down to the detail, like the van, Murdock's bomber jacket, Hannibal's cigar, the catch phrases, etc. Karate Kid only throws its net around the single mother/only child/bullies/teacher elements and envisions them all in China rather than Encino, and all that comes with that geographical shift. xxxxp

fwiw, I love the way they worked "I pity the fool" into the The A-Team movie.

The KK reboot seems to be so consciously different (aside from cornerstone plot points) that I can't even figure out why they bothered to use the name. Except to make $$, of course.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, June 14, 2010 10:49 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

the last part is why the movie was made.

shoulda called it the kung fu kid tho

also... can we talk about bradley cooper for a second... could this be the beginning of the end

the last part is why the movie was made

Well, half that and half Will Smith having the money and clout to make a movie that his kid could star in. I got a bicycle at that age. Jaden Smith got his own movie.

According to Bradley Cooper in interviews the last few days, he'd already been cast in A-Team before The Hangover even came to theaters. I don't think he's done his first real post-getting-famous movie yet.

That kid is so annoying.xp

did the trailer have 'wax on, wax off'?

chan says "jacket on, jacket off" now, which is fucking insane.

wonder if there's also a "sock on, sock off" scene involving footwear

w/r/t b-coop, this sounds dece imo:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1219289/

from the director of The Illusionist and the writer of Pay It Forward, Just Like Heaven and the Heartbreak Kid remake.

lol and then i scrolled down...

# The Heartbreak Kid (2007) (screenplay)
# Hairspray (2007) (screenplay)
# Just Like Heaven (2005) (screenplay)
# Freaky Friday (2003) (screenplay)
# Pay It Forward (2000) (screenplay)
# The Thomas Crown Affair (1999) (screenplay)
# That Old Feeling (1997) (written by)
# Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) (screenplay)
# Look Who's Talking Now (1993) (written by)
# Loverboy (1989) (screenplay)
# Overboard (1987) (written by)
# Outrageous Fortune (1987) (written by)

the Heartbreak Kid remake

this was dope

Thomas Crown Affair kind of standing out there

it's an adaptaish anyway so who knows

anna friel is in it

Thomas Crown Affair kind of standing out there

Completely ot, but did Rene Russo just fall off the face of the earth around the year 2000?

i think her face fell off, actually

lol

That Thomas Crown Affair remake is waaaaay better than the original.

^ i'm with this.

It's also the only other movie besides The Tailor of Pamana in which I'd look at Pierce Brosnan twice.

I can get with that. McQueen and Dunaway are both great, but they had no chemistry together and that movie was completely flat. xp

'the ghost'' is streets ahead of 'panama'. im a huge boorman guy but that film was kinda off.

ya and the matador did the bad bond thing better iirc

That Old Feeling (1997) (written by)
# Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) (screenplay)
# Look Who's Talking Now (1993) (written by)
# Loverboy (1989) (screenplay)
# Overboard (1987) (written by)
# Outrageous Fortune (1987) (written by)

This is a grisly way to spend a Saturday afternoon.

I was just trying to remember the name of The Matador. I haven't seen it since it was in the theater, but I thought that was one of the best roles I'd ever seen him in. xp

Oh, right, I forgot he was in The Ghost Writer (nice work too).

# Outrageous Fortune (1987) (written by)

best hamlet interpolation hollywood ever came up with imo

eh, the A-Team was lots of fun - but I've never seen the TV show and had zero expectations. Would've liked to have seen a lot more silly inventiveness but what they did was fun. Liam Neeson seemed to be a video game character in some of the close-ups though?!

I only have the time and resources to get a babysitter for Important Films, like Macgruber.

Otherwise I might have seen the A-Team.

lol MacGruber was totes worth it, right?

It so was.

also... can we talk about bradley cooper for a second... could this be the beginning of the end

― delanie griffith (s1ocki), Monday, June 14, 2010 10:57 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

is this a real thing, people giving a damn about bradley cooper and the state of his career? i mean i know he's been in some big movies but...really?

I've read a lot of articles about him that seem to infer he's all set to become an A-level superstar within the next few years, I don't get it. His wonky, uneven eyes baffle me.

I find him attractive but I realized with a start the other day that I've unknowingly seen him in several movies.

for a star-to-be he's rather recessive.

yeah it's like he was born to be a seat-filler in ensemble rom coms like Valentines' Day and He's Just Not That Into You, and occasionally stumble into being the straight man in some actual funny comedies

and sometimes be the upmarket alternative when Will Arnett isn't available to play a douchebag antagonist

also... can we talk about bradley cooper for a second... could this be the beginning of the end

― delanie griffith (s1ocki), Monday, June 14, 2010 10:57 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

is this a real thing, people giving a damn about bradley cooper and the state of his career? i mean i know he's been in some big movies but...really?

― some dude, Monday, June 14, 2010 5:14 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark

i care because i think he kind of stinks and i wish other people would get cast in movies like the hangover

I spent the first season of Alias despising Bradley Cooper, so I find the prospect of him becoming an A-list movie star kind of hilarious.

there are way worse leading men atm, and he was fine in 'alias'

sam worthington, josh duhamel, ashton kutcher...

haha ok, i didn't realize there was a hopeful note in your speculation on his downfall (xpost)

yeah i sure am tired of people calling josh duhamel the next tom cruise

vince vaughan, brad pitt, gerard butler

no-one's calling bradley cooper the next tom cruise either!

I've read a lot of articles about him that seem to infer he's all set to become an A-level superstar within the next few years

― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, June 14, 2010 5:16 PM (37 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

That doesn't necessarily mean Tom Cruise dude, I'd say he is pretty much beyond that. Is "A-minus" better?

fair enough, my point was only that josh duhamel isn't really getting the kind of industry stamp of approval that cooper is

dude straight up admits to roll-on tans and appeared in various David Wain-related affairs, I'm basically cool with Cooper (liked him fine in the hangover) even if I don't trust him to only (or even regularly) appear in good movies.