Liam Neeson in talks for 'A-Team'
 

Mood: Excited

http://www.variety.com/article/VR111...goryid=13&cs=1

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.

Ridley Scott is producing with Jules Daly and series creator Stephen J. Cannell, with Tony Scott exec producing through Scott Free. Carnahan and Brian Bloom polished a script by Skip Woods, whose recent script credits include "G.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra" and "Wolverine."

Neeson is in talks to play Hannibal, the role originated by George Peppard, while Cooper would play "Faceman," the role played by Dirk Benedict.

Neeson and Fox are working out money issues. He is coming off the global hit "Taken" and most recently completed "Chloe" and "Clash of the Titans," playing Zeus in the latter.

Cooper has established himself as a commodity after his starring role in Todd Phillips-directed hit "The Hangover." He just completed playing the title role opposite Sandra Bullock in "All About Steve."

Carnahan, Fox and Scott Free have kept the series premise -- four war vets wrongly convicted of armed robbery escape from a military prison to become do-gooder mercenaries -- but they've replaced the campy nature of the series with a tone closer to those of "Mission: Impossible" and "Ocean's Eleven."

Still to be cast are the roles of Capt. "Howling Mad" Murdock, played by Dwight Schultz in the original, and Sgt. "B.A." Baracus, the role that made Mr. T an '80s icon.

This is an excellent bit of casting.

HOLY SHIT I HAVE WANTED TO SEE THIS RE-MADE FOR YEARS!!!

I wonder if the bad guys will actually get killed in this movie, or if we'll see them walking away dazed and confused from the flaming wreckage of a truck that exploded and cartwheeled through the air six times before landing at the bottom of a cliff?

Perhaps they can cast Will Ferrell in the Mr. T role.

:shake:

How is Michael Clarke Duncan not a shoo in for B.A.?

Sweet!!


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Well, Neeson does have a "very particular set of skills" "skills he has acquired over a very long career."

Skills that make him a nightmare for people like you. If he gets this part that'll be the end of it. He will not look for you, he will not pursue you. But if he doesnt, he will look for you, he will find you, and he will kill you.

I wonder if the bad guys will improve their aim....

Steve Zahn should be Mad Dog

pffft VING RHAMES

Will this be set back in the 80's?

Or will they update it to modern day and make them Desert Storm/Iraqi Freedom vets?

Wasn't there a chick in some of the episodes too?

I like the idea of Carnahan directing. He will make it gritty and real. None of that spoofing/comedy stuff like "Land of the Lost"

The only thing I care about is a montage with the A-Team building a superweapon out of odds and ends.

Carnahan and Brian Bloom polished a script by Skip Woods, whose recent script credits include "G.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra" and "Wolverine."

EPIC FAIL!

I just watched this last night. Good flick.

The Magum PI and Simon & Simon movies are sure to follow.

LMAO

Damnit, I would probably watch those too.

Couldn't Mr. T. revive his BA character? Dude always drank milk and had to be hit over the head to fly. Great stuff.

All I know is that dude was awesome in Taken.

you can't improve on the original cast.....seems like a bad choice for a remake

I would rather see Mel Gibson in the role of Hannibal though. I can't see Neeson holding a cigar and saying "I love it when a plan comes together."

Actually Magnum P.I.has been greenlit for a movie

Let me guess, Will Farrell. Sasha Baron Cohen as Higgins, Tracey Morgan as TC, and Paul Rudd as Rick.

Special appearance by Mike Meyers as Agatha.

Damn, when you go all out you really go all out.LMAO

Nope, Selleck apparently might reprise the role with a new cast.

Let's hope he bought some longer shorts.

Actually, that's a better choice. He seems to be more angry (like B.A. Baracus) than Duncan.

Wait, GI Joe is out already? If not, how have you seen it to pass judgment?

Yes. Just watched that the other night. :thumb:

sweet! I just want to see a VW bug and a few pieces of scrap metal built into a tank!

The guy is still a good actor, IMO. He does those Jesse Stone movies. CBS just aired a brand new one a couple months ago.

I have been renting them from netflix recently and he does a great job.

Hell, just watch old basketball footage from the 80's. Those athletes must be embarrassed as hell.

Have you seen Wolverine, not too promising expectations on his follwing work for his next movie.

If it wasn't for the scheduling conflict with the show he would of been Indiana Jones.

To be fair, the trailer I saw was reeruned enough to make an entire theater full of people burst out laughing. And not in a way the film makers would appreciate.

I'm holding out for a Riptide feature film. Maybe BJ and the Bear too.

That was the exact reaction of the crowd when I saw the trailer before Star Trek. It started with a few chuckles and ended up with all out laughter by the time the title was shown.

I like Neeson and don't care much for Gibson. But you are right. He'd be a better fit for the role.

Mannix.

On 2nd thought, who could top Mike Connors for that role?

Riptide would totally ROCK!!!LMAO

Clocking in at 50 percent.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/a_team/

Even the bad reviews sound promising.

Saw it, thought it was pretty good. I never saw the tv show

liam as always did a fantastic job
cooper did very fine as well, he has a good swag about him
rampage did well, he was a tad more soft than i expected
the other guy(dude from district 6) was really good. Very good performace by him.

Plenty of action, with some comedy. Just overall badassness

id give it 8/10 stars, but thats just me. Worth the admission

Did anyone actually get shot?

Brilliant.

From thr director of blood, guts, bullets and octane and smokin aces! I wouldn't expect anything less...
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I watched an episode of the A-Team last night...something about them taking out a beer company that was trying to strong-arm a little soda factory so they could buy the land.

It was wonderfully awful.

Yea.....its pretty bad. Pretty much every episode was the same.
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Of course. Plenty of bullets

YES!

Pretty much better than any A-Team episode ever.

****ing. Awesome.

Stay after the credits. :)

Hannibal's intro is just about the coolest intro for a badass I think I've ever seen. It was just so ****ing slick.

I'm hoping there are more A-Team movies. These guys could be better than the original A-Team.

By the way, lots and lots of little uses of the A-Team theme. I was a little disappointed we didn't get the full blown movement until the credits, though.

Also, it was so funny to see Hannibal using an AK-47 that looked like it popped right out of the TV show. :)

i really liked the 3d movie with the hummer.
And there isnt even a word to describe how badass the scene with the falling tank was.

I just about lost my shit when Hannibal started firing shells to "fly" the tank. ROFL

The hummer breakout was cool....not only because the movie played the A-Team theme, but "Reginald Barclay" was in the credits.

By the way, there are several breakout scenes in this movie, and they all rock.

Thats great!!!!

By the way, I wanted to shoot the screen during the stupid Twilight movie preview. Ugh.

Liam's career is in utter failure when it comes to acting in these roles. You know the film would be the suckage.

Funny how neeson has reinvented himself as an action star.
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I was a big fan of George Peppard. But I hated the A-Team. However the purist in me thinks Liam is totally miscast as Hannibal here. I heard they originally wanted Bruce Willis. That would have been a much better choice for this role.

Rep!

Ive never seen the a-team so i cant compare neeson and the original actor, but i loved neesons hannibal. Jmo.

Neeson was OK as Hannibal. I wish he had been a little more smooth and witty like Peppard but it didn't really detract from the movie.

I liked it a lot. its basically an origin story of the tv show opening. The casting is what sells it. Everyone was note pefect in this. I liked the bad guys patrick wilson and old 80's teen hearthrob brian bloom a lot as well. Both were very good.

The action was silly and stupid, but so was the tv show. Its a solid guys night out
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Dumb reviews like this are popping up all over the place.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65903I20100610

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Beginning with the sound era, studios and films producers have longed for a way to eliminate the screenwriter from the filmmaking process.

By and large, writers are prickly personalities who absorb too much time, demand too much credit and need to be kept clear of the set, where they might interfere with the director, who is, after all, the real auteur of the film.

With "The A-Team," a Fox film derived from a 1980s TV series, this dream now is a reality. The film seems nearly writer-free. Absolutely no time gets wasted on story, character development or logic. The film lurches from one action sequence to another, with little connection between the scenes.

The characters move directly from small to big screen with new actors, of course, but little else changed including their famous catchphrases. So the screenwriting as such has been reduced to storyboards, stunt rigging and visual effects. Of the three writers receiving credit, one is the director, action maven Joe Carnahan ("Smokin' Aces"), and the other is one of the film's actors, Brian Bloom.

Carnahan's reputation among young men for delivering action will mean more than any association with a 25-year-old TV series. So "A-Team" could open on Friday with a weekend box office haul of more than $30 million.

The story's four Special Forces soldiers meet in an inexplicable series of shootouts in Sonora, Mexico. These are Liam Neeson in the George Peppard role of the cocky, cigar-chomping team leader "Hannibal" Smith; Bradley Cooper as "Face" Peck, a man efficient at illicit requisitions when not baring his chest like a male model; pro martial artist Quinton "Rampage" Jackson as Mr. T -- sorry, B.A. Baracus, the team's driver and muscle -- and "District 9's" amazing Sharlto Copley as a mentally unstable pilot.

The quartet seems to operate free of any military oversight through Iraq, Germany, Switzerland, Lake Tahoe and the Long Beach Harbor. At some point, a false crime is hung on the four so they can go "rogue," which fits the concept behind the Stephen J. Cannell/Frank Lupo TV series. But disconnection from the U.S. military has no apparent impact on supply lines, support personnel or logistical capabilities. Good thing, too, for that would require a writer to figure out where all this backup comes from.

Various people are on the A-Team's tail, including Jessica Biel, who as Face's former flame gives the film its only female sex appeal; Patrick Wilson as an apparently rogue CIA officer; and Bloom, a mysterious military contractor.

All the actors can do amid the explosions and stunts is to develop a comic banter among themselves that isn't about anything other than how unconcerned everyone is over these supposedly life-and-death situations. Because for all the firepower in any sequence, none of the heroes gets more than a bump on the head or clothes that need cleaning. Yes, a writer would only gum things up with suspense and character.

So how was Rampage as BA?

Dunno, dun care.

I only wish he had expired attempting to perform a stunt.

F Hollywood for raping my childhood yet again.

F Rampage for being a baby killing thug asshole that should never have had the opportunity to continue his fighting career much less make millions with this movie.

I refuse to spend my money on this film. Too bad too... I enjoy most everything Liam does.

Pretty good, they actually give him a decent little character arc. He has some badass parts and they really played up the "BA is a pussy who doesn't like to fly" thing. In fact we learn WHY he hates flying.

This...I actually thought he did a good job..as I mentioned before...they all did. Its the movies strength. They cast solid actors who are really above the material...but they rise above.
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By the way, I just love everything Murdock in this movie.

Bust a gut laughing at "you spin me right round baby right round" and the part about the 3D movie being so realistic, it felt like they were firing real bullets at them.

I need to see it again because the movie goes SO FAST I'm sure I missed some of it.

Carnahan only made one mistake.. no scenes with jessica biel in a bikini...
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dude he asked how he was in the movie, not some gripe you have about him.

Anyways, i heard this movie is pretty damned good and jackson was pretty awesome. I need to check it out asap.

The movie is what its supposed to be... it's not supposed to be great character or a life-changing plot...

It is a revenge flick/comedy with a lot of boom, and it pulls it off very very well.

The actors are great for their parts (my only complaint w/ Neeson is that he sounds too much like Neeson, but hey... what can you do?), and even the dumb dialogue fits b/c it is meant to fit.

Very good summer action flick...

I don't know how I felt after this movie, it was so rediculous that I couldnt take it seriously. Half the time I couldnt understand the jokes cause they came too fast or they were lost in the sound. Personally its worth a rent but I won't buy it when it comes out. Entertaining summer movie which is what I expected.

That's the A-Team. :)

That's the tv show. Go back and watch an episode. Its all done for laughs. At least the early episodes when it was most popular.

If anything, the movie stayed pretty faithful to the show. Just updated it.
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Yeah I know the TV show, I watched reruns back in the day, it was just so goofy that I didn't know what to think when someone asked me afterwards "How was it?"

Hollywood? You mean the same "Hollywood", Steven J. Cannell, the creator and producer of the TV series and THIS FILM?

"Hollywood" had nothing to do with it. It was Cannell's property to do as he saw fit.

Seems like 20th Century Fox is the film studio behind the movie. Fox qualifies as Hollywood, no?

No, Fox is only the distributor.

Steven J. Cannell produced the movie, which means he put up the funding that hired the screenwriter, casting director, actors, associate producers, composer, gaffers, electricians, and on and on and on.

He may have secured a deal with Fox for distribution early on, and maybe even co-funding. But HE owned the intellectual property, not Fox, and he produced the movie as he saw fit.

65% of the time these days (or more), the studios only distribute films. They don't fund and order them.

And I don't think that Fox, being the Fox New Channel as well, represents "Hollywood".

:D