When this modern world gets you down, don’t you sometimes think to yourself, “Goodness, I need a group of vigilante war veterans framed for a crime they didn’t commit to come in and sort out this situation for me.” Of course you have, and John Singleton feels your pain. As we reported a few days ago as a rumor, the Boyz in the Hood director is going to be tackling a movie version of The A-Team, which until just now I thought was the 80s show too cheesy and dated to possibly make a comeback.
The A-Team, if nothing else, was the TV show that made Mr. T a pop culture icon. It also seems to have been the Prison Break of its era, but except for simply trying to run away from the law at all costs, these guys are hellbent on doing good--and also getting into antics and blowing things up-- in the meantime.
The movie update, of course, would make the team veterans of the Iraq war instead, and Variety tells us how it will be updated in what must be my favorite sentence of the day: “Story has been given a modern twist by involving oil tycoons and laser technology.” Please forgive me, but the only thing I can imagine here for laser technology is the sharks with frickin’ laser beams on their heads from Austin Powers. And when we first reported on this Josh speculated that the modern twist “means B.A. won’t spend a lot of time beating up teamsters and Texas oil men.” Ah, but Josh, dreams really can come true!
No cast has been set in place yet, though the Variety article knocks down the rumor that Ice Cube would be taking the role originated by Mr. T. Speaking of the man who pities fools so readily, he will absolutely not be making an appearance. Back in May he gave a quintessentially long-winded rant to MTV that compared asking him to making a cameo to his ex-girlfriend asking him out to dinner with her new boyfriend. ”“We don’t do cameos! You don’t disrespect us, or ‘Pow! Pow!’” he added, pumping his fists. “Do you know what I mean?” I think we do, sir. The full video is below, and it’ll make you really wish that Mr. T would reconsider a cameo; the world needs as much of him as we can get.
