Joe Carnahan and The Scotts To Assemble The A-Team
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By Kellvin Chavez on
January 27, 2009
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According to the trades, 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. 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.
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 vetsconvicted 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.
Carnahan has put his Pablo Escobar film "Killing Pablo" on the back burner. The project was complicated by the bankruptcy filing made by the Yari Film Group.
"I am determined to make that movie there or elsewhere, but it's an interesting time in Hollywood, and you have to be aware when you get the opportunity to step into a business model that is working," Carnahan said, noting that many of the top-grossing studio films are based on branded properties.
"This was a coveted property, and reimagining a show that I remembered as a kid was tough to turn down," Carnahan said. "Fox hired me to make it as emotional, real and accessible as possible without cheesing it up."
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Ridley Scott!!
Commented By: Monty on 2009-01-27 20:43:43
I'd bet my left kidney that we see Russel Crowe as Hanibal and Di Caprio as Face.
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Monty
Commented By: Larry on 2009-01-27 21:34:53
I have to agree with you there Monty. Denzel as BA. LOL.
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Only One CAST
Commented By: Benn on 2009-01-28 05:15:21
Should be
Face: Brad Pit
Murdoch: Jim Carry
Mr-T: Ving Rymes
Hannible: George Cloonie
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There can be only 1 B.A.
Commented By: Paul on 2009-01-28 06:19:19
Get Russell Crowe for Hannibal. Get Ryan Reynolds for Face. Get whoever you want for Murdoch.
There is only one B.A. I pity the fools if they don't even consider Mr.T for B.A.
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KIngs
Commented By: espnfx on 2009-01-28 09:34:33
Since they're setting it up in the Middle East, just get the main guys from Three Kings: George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube and Spike Jonze. It's pretty much the same premise anyways... use the same cast.
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Commented By: JohnZDelorean on 2009-01-28 21:02:30
Just don't go with the usual we need a big black guy role filled with Michael Clarke Duncan for Mr. T. NO way Crowe or Leo are in this flick, Scott brothers or not. You might get Bruce Willis as Hanibal tho. Sam Rockwell as Murdock. They go female for Face and get Sienna Miller and Michael Jai White as B.A.
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