Don’t you love it when a half-assed plan comes together?
The cult television show from the 1980s, which was responsible for unleashing Mr. T’s catch-phrases into the public conscious, appears to be going to the big screen compliments of Fox. Joe Carnahan, the director who began his career with the underrated “Narc” but has recently been slumming, beginning with sub-par action flick “Smokin’ Aces” and now is in talks to helm the project, with a script penned by Skip Woods and a producing team consisting of Ridley and Tony Scott.
There have been many attempts to bring “The A-Team” to the big-screen, all of which eventually fell through, but in this economic crisis Fox was probably attracted to a project with such mass popularity and an established, built-in audience. The television series followed a group of rag-tag Special Forces on the run from a crime they didn’t commit. The film is being slated for a tent-pole summer release in 2010.
Carnahan is a talented filmmaker, “Narc” proved this, so its pretty sad to see the director continue to get sucked into all these awful TV-remake projects. But hey, maybe he’s just got to pay the bills and keep the lights on. Still, it just seems like a colossal waste of time.
