Proposals and scripts for an A-Team movie have been going around for over a decade, but now it finally looks like it’s going to happen for real. The main cast seems set: Liam Neeson taking over George Peppard’s role as Hannibal Smith; Bradley Cooper in Dirk Bennedict’s role of Templeton Peck; Quinton “Rampage” Jackson in Mr. T’s role of B.A. Baracus, and now Sharlto Copley in Dwight Schultz’s role of H.M. Murdock. Jessica Biel is also apparently in the cast as an ex-fiance of Peck now hunting the team, and Watchmen’s Patrick Wilson will play a CIA operative on the hunt for the team.
The story and characters will be updated so that they will be Iraq War veterans instead of Vietnam vets; what else will change or stay the same remains to be seen, though early pictures show an A-Team van much like the original’s.
As a die-hard A-Team fan for many decades, my feelings about the project have been mixed from the start.
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