H. R. Pufnstuf, directed by Ridley Scott.
There were too many questions left unanswered, too many avenues left unexplored when the series ended.
Posted on 01/28/2009 2:03:26 PM PST by nickcarraway
Director Ridley Scott has signed up to produce the big screen remake of 1980s TV show The A-Team, according to industry paper Variety.
The film, due out in 2010, will be updated so that the army veterans will have fought in the Middle East and not in Vietnam, Variety adds.
It says Joe Carnahan will direct and hopes to make a "popcorn movie" that "reflects on the real world".
The cult TV show starred George Peppard as Hannibal and Mr T as BA Baracus.
Dirk Benedict, as Face, and Dwight Schultz, as Murdoch, completed the quartet of mercenaries "accused of a crime they didn't commit".
Carnahan said 20th Century Fox had asked him "to make it as emotional, real and accessible as possible without cheesing it up", Variety added.
Actors including Bruce Willis and Ice Cube have been rumoured to be on board but no names have been confirmed.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
You forgot Cannonball run!
Is anybody going to actually die in this version?
I’m waiting for the remake of “Ishtar”.
Fn idiots. They might as well re-make “Jake and the Fatman” or “Riptide”.
I did actually see someone die in one of the episodes, if I remember correctly. It was an Asian man crossing a field, and wasn’t in one of the end-of-episode shootouts (where no one died, even though explosives sent them flying).
I’m waiting for a “MacGyver” movie.
No no no! They gotta get to work on Simon & Simon. Now THAT would be cinema GOLD. /sarc
Can a “BJ and the Bear” movie be far behind?
You know, I never realized the anti-gun sentiments of that tv series until I got older.
It’s in line after the Cagney & Lacey one.
I can’t wait for them to remake “Ernest goes to Camp”.
*Sigh*
I’ll guess it will be crapped up with scantily clad, pissed off and moody, masculine women and have ‘homo-eroticism’ running all through it.
“I love it when a plan comes together.”
Why not? They already butchered “Knight Rider” and “Charlie’s Angels”.
Oh c'mon, that show wasn't anything BUT cheese.
Speaking of cheese, mooses (or is it meese), and stunning beebers.............
H. R. Pufnstuf, directed by Ridley Scott.
There were too many questions left unanswered, too many avenues left unexplored when the series ended.
I'm fairly sure this is a sign of the apocalypse.
Really, there are only so many ways you can up armor
a van with cheezy sheets of metal and a cutting torch...
More Cheeze!
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