Stuck In The '70's
06-03-2008, 05:13 PM
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/46537/New-A-Team-to-hire-Willis
NEW A-TEAM TO HIRE WILLIS
Sunday June 1,2008
By Henry Fitzherbert
DIE HARD hero Bruce Willis is poised to star in the big screen remake of The A-Team.
He is close to signing a deal with 20th Century Fox to play Hannibal Smith, the leader of the renegade “soldiers of fortune” played by George Peppard in the popular TV show.
“He loves the script and thinks it could be a lot of fun” said a Hollywood insider. “The part plays to his strengths, action and comedy and he should be signing any day now.”
The remake, with an up-to-date storyline but still sticking to the politically incorrect tone of the original, will start shooting later this year for release in June 2009.
In its five TV series, which ran from 1983 to 1986, the A-Team were a “crack commando unit” of Vietnam veterans wrongly imprisoned in a “maximum security stockade” from which they had escaped.
The tag-line went: “If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the A-Team.”
Woody Harrelson is tipped to play “Howlin’ Mad” Murdoch and rapper-turned-actor Ice Cube is in the running to be “B A” Baracus, the angry strong man first played by Mr T who is expected to make a cameo appearance along with the rest of the TV cast, bar George Peppard who died in 1994.
NEW A-TEAM TO HIRE WILLIS
Sunday June 1,2008
By Henry Fitzherbert
DIE HARD hero Bruce Willis is poised to star in the big screen remake of The A-Team.
He is close to signing a deal with 20th Century Fox to play Hannibal Smith, the leader of the renegade “soldiers of fortune” played by George Peppard in the popular TV show.
“He loves the script and thinks it could be a lot of fun” said a Hollywood insider. “The part plays to his strengths, action and comedy and he should be signing any day now.”
The remake, with an up-to-date storyline but still sticking to the politically incorrect tone of the original, will start shooting later this year for release in June 2009.
In its five TV series, which ran from 1983 to 1986, the A-Team were a “crack commando unit” of Vietnam veterans wrongly imprisoned in a “maximum security stockade” from which they had escaped.
The tag-line went: “If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the A-Team.”
Woody Harrelson is tipped to play “Howlin’ Mad” Murdoch and rapper-turned-actor Ice Cube is in the running to be “B A” Baracus, the angry strong man first played by Mr T who is expected to make a cameo appearance along with the rest of the TV cast, bar George Peppard who died in 1994.