A-Team: 2010

[jdr3]

Eat it, Newsbot...this is some serious #$%@ yo.

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Fox assembles 'A-Team'
Carnahan, Scotts join remake set for 2010

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.

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."

Without "cheesing" it up? Seriously, isn't that one of the things that is slightly awesome about nostalgia? Why can't things stay innocent and cheesy. I mean, why does everything have to have a facelift and become dark and violent and gory. Not to say that doesn't have it's place, but it's like "they" are trying to do it to everything. Soon a muppets movie will come out where Gonzo goes on a killing spree, because he can't figure out what he is, with Rolf maniacally laughing behind him, while kermit cries about being raped by miss piggy.

[vynsane]

lots of fucked up muppets references today. wonder if it's a sign...

and yes, 'fucked up muppets' is now the name of my band that i need to create.

[mabudon]

Me and Ran were once discussing a Smurfs "update" only they would be tough latino gangsters and Gargamel would be with the mafia and it would have a ton of ultra-violence, rape and atrocious language, I think there'd be NO way to do the smurfs without such changes to make it resonate with the long-time fans who have grown up since their heyday

[Ran]

Someone from Hollywood should hire us to sit around all day and come up with ideas for movies and tv shows. It would be the best move in their career.

By the way, I pity da foo who replaces Mr. T.

[Jargo]

Ok, I think it's official now. Hollywood needs to close it's studios and send all the old men with executive titles into retirement permanently. Just bulldoze the whole place down and start over. This trend for taking established cheese that is loved and revered by millions and trying to give it a serious makeover has got to stop. next they'll be trying to make Manimal with Christian 'I'm a no fun miserable up my own arse fucker' Bale as the shape changing hero who mumbles his way through the entire movie and frowns constantly but has no other facial expression. Or Highway to heaven as a Christian fundamentalist toting an uzi on a mission to free the world of non believers. Little house on the prairie full of cowboys raping the young girls and pa Ingles as an opium abuser.

some things should be left as they are. appreciated for what they are. these douchbags are shittin' all over our youth.

[Rollo Tomassi]

Me and Ran were once discussing a Smurfs "update" only they would be tough latino gangsters and Gargamel would be with the mafia and it would have a ton of ultra-violence, rape and atrocious language, I think there'd be NO way to do the smurfs without such changes to make it resonate with the long-time fans who have grown up since their heyday

James Cameron already "updated" Smurfs.

He called it Avatar.

[Ran]

Someone from Hollywood should hire us to sit around all day and come up with ideas for movies and tv shows. It would be the best move in their career.

By the way, I pity da foo who replaces Mr. T.

So they ended up getting a UFC fighter to play BA Baracas. I'd bet he's tougher (and taller) than Mr. T.

[Rollo Tomassi]

That's not too difficult. Hell, I'M taller than Mr. T.

[Sleazer]

I like Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper, and Sharlton Copley (sic?) so for me the only wildcard here is Rampage...since I don't follow MMA too closely, I don't know much about him but the trailers don't make me hate him, so that's a good start.

[Ran]

That's not too difficult. Hell, I'M taller than Mr. T.

Yeah, but back in 1983, he was huge.

[Rollo Tomassi]

That's just camera angles and your nostalgia kicking in. Go back and watch some old episodes of A-Team. The man is like 5'8. Sure he was stocky, but he was never tall.

[Ran]

I know. What I meant to say is that when I was a kid, he seemed much bigger.

Pairing him with Sly Stalone in Rocky helped perpetuate the myth since they are both short. And having him wrestle with Hulk Hogan just made Hulk Hogan look huge. (Hogan is 6'-4", but they listed him at 6'-7")

[Rollo Tomassi]

I went and saw this and it was awesome. Most fun I've had at the movie this year. The movie step son the accelerator at the very beginning and pretty much doesn't let up...ever. Bring your suspension of disbelief however. The movie can best be summed up with this line from the film.

"What the hell are they doing?"

"They're trying to fly that tank."