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Singleton Flees THE A-TEAM!!
Merrick here...
John Singleton has departed the long-in-development A-TEAM movie 'cause Fox rescheduled its release & wanted even more rewrites than the project has already endured. The film has now been pushed back to a June 2010 release at the earliest.
So says THIS ARTICLE in Variety.
This doesn't come as a particular surprise. A-TEAM was originally positioned as a Summer 2009 release...like...8 months away. But no casting (that we're aware of) and no shooting have occurred to date, pretty much assuring certain doom for its intended June 12 '09 unveiling.
ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: THE SQUEAKUEL is, however, on course for a Christmas 2009 release. Whew!
I'm dying to know what happened on THE A-TEAM. Given the shitty quality of scripts Fox systematically greenlights, I'm guessing A-TEAM must have either sucked something fierce...or someone got the idea to reboot the thing into a zany comedy or something & Singleton bolted.
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Had to do it!!!!!
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Must be my lucky day!
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...and A-Team sucks.
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...who makes this movie.
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Hhhhahhahahahhahhahahhhahhaahhahhahahhahahahhahahhahahahahhahhahahahhahahahahhahahahaahhahahahhah...ha!!!
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It was a piss poor idea anyway.
Let's just wait for it to be remade as a new series on NBC. :( -
Just leave something from my childhood untouched.. Leave this and Magnum alone... Everything from the 80's that's been "RE-IMAGINED" has been aweful.
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you know it's coming. name one other tall dark haired popular pop actor that can be goofy/serious and probably grow a pornstache.
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It's like Hollywood has all of a sudden decided all of the '80s properties aren't worth developing. First Masters of the Universe, now the A-Team...don't get me wrong, I wasn't exactly salivating at the notion of a new Mr. T, but it's a trend that concerns me. All the worthy properties of the '80s may get overlooked if the overall stigma of making '80s-related films goes south.
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ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS!?!
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I mean, they got him to do 2 Fast 2 Furious; it can't exactly be like pulling teeth to convince the dude to shoot something.
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Now that it's pushed back SCHWARZENEGGER should be the one leading THE A-TEAM! He will no longer be governor at that time!
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Well, did he?
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Please join us in the present. It is currently Friday, October 24th at precisely 12:01 A.M.
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Wow, just last night a friend asked me how would I cast an "A-Team" movie. I replied, "I wouldn't".
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...is for kids, you know.
I saw the movie (I was such a Chipmunk fan as a child that I just had to) and, guess what, the children in the theater laughed and enjoyed themselves. So... doesn't that mean it succeeded? How long until we start criticizing rattles as being a boring toy? The rattles, and Alvin and the Chipmunks, aren't for you. -
And not that I'm against an A-Team movie, but since I've heard that they are probably using the crappy script in which Face is the villain and betrays the whole team, I'm happy that the movie is on hiatus again.
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too bad singleton seemed to be oin the right track, at least with woody harrelson
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I remember how big and inspiring Boyz N The Hood was, and all the interviews about how Singleton studied filmmakers in film school and editing techniques etc. I thought this guy was going to bring the goods with each film. What's followed since? Poetic Justice? Oh, because she's a poet named JUSTICE, got it. Rosewood? Shaft? FOUR BROTHERS? 2 Fast, 2 Furious? What a HACK this guy turned out to be.
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They should give the role to Stallone instead. He's a lot cooler than the Guvernator... And I think Arnie has ruined his image as an action hero once he became involved with politics.
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Bizarro post of the week...
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The only potentially decent film in that Variety list is Wolverine. So it's that and Avatar basically.
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get a good review?
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Don't forget Higher Learning. I watched that when it first came to video. I just saw it again for the first time in years, and it ages like milk. You can study all the filmmakers and writers and editing techniques you want, but if you don't have the talent, or at least enough to last more than one movie, then it's going to show. Boyz N The(a?) Hood hasn't aged like wine either.
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You're right about Boyz not aging well. It was well done and for its time was powerful, but MAKE NOTE ALL YOU WRITERS AND DIRECTORS OUT THERE: You can have political or social bents to your projects, but they must ultimately be about character, otherwise it doesn't age well.
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He could make Face a woman, just to piss off Dirk Benedict even more. And instead of a corvette, have her drive a VW bug or a mini. That would be completely immasculating.
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..it could still turn out like shit. Look at Miami Vice...yeesh. Nevermind. It's best not to.
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..anyone see that Total Gym commercial with Wesley Snipes featuring Chuck Norris and Christina Brinkley(?)? Yikes!!
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..flee from the A-Team Movie too...
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O, no, the other way. Just leave it as it is, Fox. Well, given the talent that Fox has scared off in the past decade or so this does not surprise me. Ironically, the best A-Team version was 'made' by Fox (The Family Guy spoof). They should've done this either 10 years ago or not at all. Since it's not ten years ago they can better leave it and do something completely different: DEVELOP SOMETHING FUCKING ORIGINAL!!!!!
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Holy crap that's a pretty badass name!!!
I actually liked the Alvin and the chipmunks movie and have been looking foward to a second one. -
This will suck. You felt the vibe. Good on you.
This is a career killer project.
Fox just has to meddle. -
Kimbo Slice as B.A., and fuck it... Dwight Schultz as Murdock.
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Bring on the Squeakuel!
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'Nuff said, true squeaklievers.
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"X-Men Origins: Wolverine," "Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian," "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs." - Wow. Avatar can't come soon enough...
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simple as .. The A team.. tell you what, why not go the whole hog and do CHIPS or fucking Simon and Simon... Name me one 'upscale' from tv to movie that actually worked and i'll eat my own cock!!! Come to thing of it, i'll eat my own cock whilst you guys come up with a good 'upscale'
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It would make me laugh anyway.
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The Fugitive
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The Untouchables
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he's too busy gagging on his dick (not sure how that's physically possible with a big mouth and a small dick but there you go).
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If somebody smart was doing it. Yes, the TV show is dumb, but it's the perfect '80s style action movie concept: team of colorful badasses with different expertises framed by the military, on the run, using their skills to help people. So you got heroic rogues, you got a con man, a crazy man, a big muscle dude with a mohawk, a cigar chomping leader. Forget the show, the movie could be completely badass. COULD be. Probaly wouldn't be, but could be.
Singleton talked the right talk too, saying he wanted to recapture the fun action movies of the '80s, mentioning PREDATOR and LETHAL WEAPON. He said he wanted Bruce Willis as Hannibal, Woody Harrelson as Murdock, ECW guy as B.A. - all brilliant. I'm not sure Singleton could've pulled it off though. But I expect them to replace him with somebody worse.
By the way I would like to see Nick Nolte as Hannibal, John McTiernan as director, A.B. King as executive producer. -
Oct 24, 2008 4:11:57 AM CDT
Is anyone actually a fan of this show?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Seriously. Who cares? Singleton needs to go do something good, like Boyz or Baby Boy.
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Many of the complaints of tv shows into movies is that the movies end up injecting huge amounts of action etc - they lose the actual spirit of the show. You couldn't do this with The A-Team. I'm of an age where The A-Team show didn't really do anything for me anyway, I was a little bit too old when it came out - though my girlfriends brother loved it - he's four years younger than me. But I think that it's a property that could translate well onto the screen.A lot of people hate Starsky and Hutch - me, I quite like it. But much of the hatred seems to come from the fact it went a bit Brady Bunch, self aware comedy - ideally it should have been a little more Magnum Force / French Connection but I'd have rather they did the comedy than turn it into Lethal Weapon
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Oct 24, 2008 4:20:35 AM CDT
Singleton is a smart Smart man....an A-TEAM film would suck
by monkey_king
just like many other 80's TV shows Hollywood has destroyed by giving them the Silver Screen treatment.
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Uwe Boll left the project...! I'm sure they'll find a much better director when it finally gets going!
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Oct 24, 2008 4:27:34 AM CDT
Peter Berg to direct 'Army of Two'?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
OFF TOPIC!!!! How many shit films is this guy attaching himself to? He's turning into Ratner! Although i HATED that bad, evil people movie, whatever the name was, the one with Christian Slater, i thought Friday Night Lights was great. Kingdom was very average and he fucked the second half of Hancock. They should've had the balls to make the original script, not get Akiva Fucking Goldsman to shit all over it. No one should forget that that SOB wrote Batman Forever, Batman and Robin AND Lost in Space! The Horror! The Horror! Rant Over.
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With Damon as Faceman, Mel Gibson as Hannibal Smith, Jay Baruchel as Murdock and Terrance Howard as Barracus! :) (Yeah, the last one is a joke)(
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...have we got a doozie for you...and it will be PG-13!
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Berg didn't fuck up "Hancock", the producers and studio did!...hence the reason for an 'unrated' dvd release.
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I've rewatched Hancock in it's extended form and the additions (which i enjoyed and were only taken out to get the PG-13) are in the first half. As i said in my post, he fucked the 2nd half of Hancock. I thought the first half of Hancock was good. I agree that the producers (see my Goldsman rant) and studio were also responsible, but i don't consider Berg a complete 'gun for hire', so he's the first person i hold responsible. Michael Mann should have made it years ago. It's a shame he backed out.
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where Boy George was the guest. Boy George and B.A. in a scene together... I was just a kid but I still remember that. It still seems like some sort of hallucination!
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Wow, someone got creative there, huh?
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Everything that was good about the A team was due to the prevailing thoughts and attitudes of the mid 1980's.
It is therefore impossible to replicate its success today because all those things have changed. Which means it will be made in line with modern sensibilities and will therefore not resemble the original to any degree and so will not be the A team. The only real questions are the peripherals like, will they get a decent cast ? keep the van ? will they get to make something in a shed/garage ? all else is a forgone conclusion. -
Oct 24, 2008 6:24:23 AM CDT
I don't think I'd waste 80 minutes of my life to see a SQUEAKUEL
by ricarleite
2009's Miss Little Snakes on a Plane.
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Are you kidding me. I've always been saying if John Singleton didn't have this, it should go to Fox's it mega filmmaker JAMES CAMERON so he can get back into a modern day action film. Cameron has two heavy sci-fi films with AVATAR and BATTLE ANGEL. Maybe after AVATAR, Jim could direct a 80 million budget THE A-TEAM film and get his best action star friend ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER to play HANNIBAL. This is the best news Singleton is now off. Fox, if you read this...give Cameron and Arnold a call. You owe them this project since us fans never got to see the Schwarzenegger/Cameron/Fox PLANET OF THE APES team-up!
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The other day, Fox producer John Davis said he and Arnold talk a "couple" of films...humm...could THE A-TEAM be one of them? Like VERN said, this is a perfect 80's action film. Why not wait for ARNOLD to return with an original bad ass 80's action film. Maybe THE A-TEAM first and then PREDATOR 3. God, why can't Fox be smart and do this!
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that would be bizzaro post of the week for any other website. Here, it probably doesn't even hit the top 10. Screw the A(ss)-Team. (Yes, I'm so very clever, aren't I?) I wanna see a reboot of X3. Can we get that? Someone talk to someone.
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I love it when a plan to continue to perpetuate hilariously stupid racial stereotypes from a unbelievably AWFUL tv show from the coke-addled 80s fails to come together.
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or in this case falls apart. Let the A-team remain as it is, an iconic TV show of the 80s. No more remakes.
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...is fast becoming played out. By the time they get this thing done, it'll be long done. Fuck it, they should trash the whole idea... we don't need an A-Team flick. Fuck it!
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Oct 24, 2008 7:55:37 AM CDT
The Seth McFarlane-ization of American entertainment
by nasty in the pasty
Where every piece of dated 70's/80's garbage just HAS to get a slick, "reimagined" updating for today's happening kids.
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Oct 24, 2008 7:59:32 AM CDT
Maybe it's because I'm German,but I want a good A-Team movie.
by derlanghaarige
The show is here probably the most repeated program ever. Even now it's still on (On two different channels! Saturday afternoon and sunday morning!) and gets pretty decent ratings. Why? I don't know. I think because everybody who grew up in front of his TV in the late 80's early 90's just loves this show. And for any reason it still entertains! Other 80#s shows like Knight Rider or Airwolf disappeared pretty quick, when they were on TV a few years ago, but not the A-Team.
I think it's because of the characters. The scripts were never the smartest (Yes, they used the same one every week), but it was (and still is) huge fun to watch the characters doing their thing every week. So the most important thing to get right in a movie are the characters! (Which will be of course difficult to do with B.A., because he just WAS Mr.T!)
Another thing is that I haven'T heard much good things about the script. Whoever wrote it just didn't understood the show. (Kinda like whoever wrote The Avengers.) Come on, Faceman as villain? Yeah, right. And what also bothers me was the announcement, that it would be a movie like Predator or Lethal Weapon. What the fuck does that mean? These are great movies, but does that mean that the characters will be toned down to keep up the action and violence? The show was about a group of people who had clever plans to annoy the shit out of the villains, until they were so pissed off that they saw no other chance than attacking! I think an A-Team movie should be like Ocean's 11, with a Police Academy-showdown. (To clarify the Police Academy thing: If you watch the movies again, you will see that most of them ended in a real spectacular action scene, like the airplane chase in part 4 or the monstertruck chase in part 6. Yes, I'm scared like you that I know the Police Academy movies that good!)
To sum it up(Because I don't feel good today and have to leave the computer soon or I faint): Please don't screw that! The show is more than "funny people walk around with machine guns". -
brings you mark wahlberg and the A-Team! with mark as hannibal, chicken as murdock, dog as faceman, and goat as Bearded Animal baracus (gotta love the beard!)
its the A-TEAM! directed by john singleton, produced by guys who also produce entourage.
sorry, i'm done with wahlberg jokes now.
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Clooney as Hannibal, Wahlberg as Face, Spike Jonze as Murdock and Cube as B.A saving put-upon villagers and making bombs out of footballs! -
Singelton is a good director, but fuck him! Stallone can carry this entire production and for a reasonable price. Fox should hire him to star (as Hannible if Arnold or Bruce don't bite), produce, co-write and direct this thing. He brought Rambo in on a 50 million budget and not only made the film look like it cost much more, but he made one of the best action films in the last decade. Sly knows how to take 80's properties and breath life back into them. Singelton said he wanted an 80's vibe ala PREDATOR and LETHAL WEAPON...Stallone was/is THE 1980's:)
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...by mentioning it in the same breath/talkback as the A-Team. The two aren't even close. Sure, Magnum had its share of silly episodes (and God did I wish Magnum would’ve blow away Jessica Fletcher Ivan style during that horrendous crossover ep) but if it weren’t for the stache (and one of televisions first extended portrayals of Vietnam veterans) there would be no A-Team. Just watch Did You See the Sunrise (parts 1 & 2). The quality of the show speaks for itself.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m gonna go run around the backyard in my Hawaiian shirt and Tiger’s cap.
Oh, and my pick for Magnum in the upcoming (?) flick is Aaron Eckhart.
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Maverick worked very well, and they managed to find a role for James Garner (these two points probably being very related).
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And Lawrence Kasdan to write the screenplay. Imagine the gritty Scott-ian style with a well-written story with some decent comedy. Even so, I wonder if Tropic Thunder had anything to do with the delay.
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Next up -- 90s retro -- which means we are about to experience a total collapse of pop culture since most of the 90s was about retro, how the fuck can you be retro about retro? You can't! Pop culture is going to collapse in on itself and implode. Soon everyone will be wearing grey coveralls and droning in a dull, flat tone, or hissing like white noise. Pop culture has officially ended.
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I just can't help but to laugh at people and their delusions. The guy suggests Stallone or Schwarzneggar or BOTH for every action project being conceived. A-Team? STALLONE AND SCHWARZENEGGAR! Dragonball Z movie? STALLONE AND SCHWARZENEGGAR! Casablanca remake? STALLONE AND SCHWARZENEGGAR!
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When I first saw the movie, I thought that they should do the A-Team as an unofficial Three Kings sequel. Too bad Clooney and Russell can't stand each other.
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I don't think we really need more movies like this anyway. And if they do restart it I think they should start from scratch and allow someone to do their own thing...scripts written by committee over a number of years usually suck.
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One of my fav shows...I really don't think they should make a movie - the actors WERE the characters. No Selleck no Magnum. I really do not want to watch two hours of someone pretending to be Tom Selleck. The magic really was the chemistry of the cast - it can't be recaptured.
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I only recommend Sly and Arnold for films that fit them...DRAGONBALL Z??? Did you pull that one from your ass you clown?
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Pls don't cast gays!
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I found the full quote where Singleton mentioned PREDATOR: "it’s kind of in the tradition of the 80’s action pictures, the man’s movies like Die Hard, Predator, Commando, or even Lethal Weapon – more so than anything else. The action is very serious, but there is humor. That’s what we are going for."
I like the sound of it because I love most of those movies and I think very few if any modern action movies capture the feel of those ones. So I was excited that he was looking at those as models.
As for the "'80s retro" thing everybody keeps mentioning, okay, this is based on a TV show from the '80s. But other than that I don't think it was retro, it was going to take the same premise in the modern day. I'm pretty sure they wouldn't be playing with Rubik's cubes and going to see E.T. at any point.
I know nobody likes it but I think MIAMI VICE was actually a good movie and the right attitude for this type of thing, he went and did a modern take on what he was originally trying to do with the show, a moody, gritty, astmospheric look at the world of undercover narcotics officers in Miami. I would like to see the same sort of philosophy applied to the A-Team - without nostalgia taking the original premise, capturing a similar mood but going further to fulfill the potential of the concept. It would be more lighthearted than MIAMI VICE of course.
Hey, maybe as long as Steve Soderbergh has gone nuts somebody should trick him into doing it. The OCEAN'S series has obviously dried out, this could be his new all-star vehicle. -
Vern, thanks for the full quote. Given the fact Singelton was going to do THE A-TEAM like how two Arnie films (COMMANDO & PREDATOR) were in tone, why not see if Arnie is coming back to films and wait. Wouldn't it feel like a real EVENT action film if the first film he did was a remake of a LOVED tv show? And if Arnie is too busy with PREDATOR 3 or even another CONAN or TRUE LIES movie, Stallone or Cameron should direct it. Sly is one bad ass action filmmaker!
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in the 60's and 70's, so don't have proper affection for these properties -- this is why Transformers was such a disappointment. The Tweeners don't get the 80's. They need to wait to do these when Gen Xers are in the director's chairs.
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Come up with something original! Next is Misfits of Science 2008.. oh wait, we already have that from Tim Kring.
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The full quote sounds of course much better. But there is still the problem that I have with everything I heard about the script so far. (And even more important: I found out that the movie is seriously made by Fox! I thought all the time it would be Universal, because the TV show was from them.)
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I quickly scrolled by it and thought it was advertising something else--a woman holding a dick shaped electronic device for more discrete purposes. I was worried about what this world was coming to for a few seconds.
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...to play B.A. Baracus, i'm totally there.
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big screen Dallas.
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Oct 24, 2008 3:31:35 PM CDT
Just saw Mark Wahlberg in these posts.. please fucking don't.
by damien chowder
The nightmare A-Team cast:
Hannibal= Russel Crowe (fuck this man in the ears until he dies.)
Face= Mark Wahlberg (This man's tutor is Joey Tribbiani)
Murdock= Ashton Kutcher (Playing himself.. I'm getting ill just thinking about it.)
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Ugh. How does this one not sound tired already. The A TEAM was exposions, shootouts and a van. Oh, and a black guy with a ton of bling before it became commonplace. It'll just be slo-mo gun fights, bigger explosions, a cooler van and immediatly forgettable. It feels like someone already remade this and its sequels 10 years ago and now its in the bargain bin at Wal-Mart.
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Play it completely straight and it will be the funniest movie ever. Has to be exactly like the show, thousands of bullets and no one gets hit. They must build some elaborate contraption to save the day as well. gfy
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next you'll tell me Silas "Haywire" Mitchell wasn't cast as Mad Murdoch!
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He does great work on THE UNIT.
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Fonz jumped the shark in the 1977. You're a bit off-base with that one as far as clever punning goes. But I get what you mean! They should introduce a cute little kid to make A-Team "fresh" again! ;)
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and admit untouchables and fugitive are better big screen... hlf vader, i liked your quip about a big mouth and small dick, thats why i fuck your mom in the ear...... lol only joking... more like your poppa
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I have the 1st two series on dvd and they are a hoot, I was wondering how i would react to teh show after all this timje as i loved as a kid. This could so be done with serious action,we could have a great series of movies.
The only person i can imagine equaling MrT would be Adawale AA(MrEko, Adibisi from Oz).
Christian Bale as Face(as was rumoured yrs ago)
and the idea of Bruce willis as Hannibal sounds good to me.
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My Dad has very small ears.
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Ashton Kutcher as Face! Usher as B.A.! We all know that this will happen!
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Oct 25, 2008 2:34:12 PM CDT
But now seriously. You know who would be a cool Decker?
by derlanghaarige
Lance Henriksen!
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Murdock = David Cross. OR, RDJ = Murdock & Stiller = Hannibal/Face. Yes, that's right. Steal the casting of other entertainments.
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Damn you to hell!
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...and nothing else matters.
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Anyone seen this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBSGjokUWmQ
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