It has been a hobby of film fans over the last, oh about 15 years, to speculate on the possibility of an A-Team movie with everyone throwing in their two cents for a possible casting options. Well we still don't have a cast but we do now have a director, which makes it a go-project. That sound you hear is a billion internet fanboys creaming themselves. And we think they'll be happy with the choice of director, Joe Carnahan, the man behind the excellent NARC. You think that's good? How about the news that Tony and Ridley Scott are producing.
The film was last in development with John Singleton set to direct, and after he dropped out screenwriter Skip Woods wrote a draft of the script. The new film will keep the origin story we all know and love, only substituting the Gulf War for Vietnam.
This all feels a bit too good to be true and the movie has had directors attached before, most notably John Singleton (who is ironically married*) who bowed out a few months back but never have the producers released statements talking about the nature of the project. Ridley Scott has said it will be a "fast-paced exciting franchise" and Joe Carnahan said:
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 filmWe wait with baited breath.
*Who knows if he actually is married, we just thought we'd make fun of his name.
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