First "V", now "The A-Team" and "Stargate Atlantis" :>

[wraithfodder]

Oooh.

Variety reports today that the A-Team movie is going ahead, but “Fox has struggled to find a way to exploit the branded TV show while avoiding the series' campy tone”. But… but… but that’s what made the show so appealing! The campy, cheesiness of it all! Also, “Carnahan and the Scott brothers say they will use the original premise of the series as the template for an action film. In the original, four Vietnam vets convicted of armed robbery escape from military prison and became do-gooder mercenaries.  The Middle East will replace Vietnam as the place the four did their tour of duty, but Carnahan said the origin story is the jumping-off point.” That all makes sense, since if they were Viet Vets, they’d be using AARP to cover their medical bills ;)  But visions of the travesty that was “Miami Vice” still dance in my head. I just wish folks would stop re-imagining (their weasel word for ‘duh, let’s just redo this thing as it worked well two decades ago cuz we can’t think up original ideas’) tv shows into movies.

 

Wait, wait, I have an idea. ABC is resurrecting “V”, and now Fox is talking A-Team as a movie. Let’s do a TV movie – “The V Team”! Yes, it’s all about a bunch of aliens on another world who have survived some dreadful war, come back home, find metal munching moon mice have devoured their homes and bank accounts, so now travel the planet in a souped-up Winnebago-type vehicle, helping the downtrodden with whatever their problem is. Since the Stargate Atlantis cast is free, I vote that Joe Flanigan play the lead alien, Jason Momoa can be his sidekick (with more dialogue than in SGA), David Hewlett can play the slightly unstable character (since Hewlett can do that soooo well) and Rachel Luttrell can play the real brains behind the team ;)

 

Yeah, it was a boring day, stuck at work, snow, sleet, rain, now a yard of growing slush…  Hmm, maybe this is how people in Hollywood get ideas for shows??? ;)

Comments

[vspun.livejournal.com]

LMAO I like your re-cast idea.

I suppose the good thing is that it's not another reality show.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

oH DARN, I forgot about that angle. Guess it's a good thing ;)

[vspun.livejournal.com]

My other thought was this is what happens when they drink themselves under the table and start reminiscing about all the shows they were too young to watch the originals.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Probably...

[casett.livejournal.com]

"I'm not nuts, I'm condiments!"


the A team by ~nightwing1975 on deviantART

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Ha! :)

[aelfgyfu_mead]

Ooh, I like your idea better than the network ones!

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Now if I lived in L.A., I could go to the offices of some studio and pitch my idea (and of course not get past the security guard at the gate) ;)

[dovil.livejournal.com]

Any possibility of getting those four back together on the screen is a good one - plus yes, sadly it is a more interesting idea than reworking the same old, same old.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

They should have a contest on how to cast the SGA cast ... best idea gets made into a series! :)

[kodiak-bear.livejournal.com]

LOL it must be nostalgia year at the TV execs. A-Team was definitely campy, but it was the dialogue that always won the day. So damn funny. But I just can't see it without that original team! I pity the fool! hehehehe...

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

I'm trying not to think of how they'll cast it... and yeah, the dialogue made the show.

[ancientcitadel.livejournal.com]

At least they're building it up from the producer/writer/director side rather than around some star. (Although George Clooney would make a great Hannibal.)

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

George? as Hannibel? That would be cool.

[melibabe.livejournal.com]

They have no problem making non-cheesy shows cheesy (will never forgive them for ruining "Starsky and Hutch"), so why should they care if the show was already cheesy?

My guess: none of the people involved were actually alive when these shows aired the first time, so they just. don't. get. it.

:-p

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Yup, all the folks involved probably weren't even born when A-Team first came out, or were in grade school ;)

[djlmarks.livejournal.com]

The snow is really getting to you, huh?

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

I think it was half an hour spent sweeping slush down the drivway which is now, by the way, a sheet of ice. Argh.

[flingslass.livejournal.com]

Ridley and Tony Scott produce Numb3rs so I sort of feel that they will try to do the right thing. Also SJC is a producer and WON'T want something like Miami Vice. Now for the who's going to be Hanniobal. I've always heard the George Clooney was dying to be Hannibal. He's now at the right age :D

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

A lot will depend on the writing. I'm wondering if they realize that the cheesiness was so much part of the allure... If done right, it could be great.

[flingslass.livejournal.com]

Can only rely on Stephan J Cannell.

[leesa_perrie]

ROTFL!!! I love your movie idea!! LOL!!

I'm not sure about this remake of the A Team. I love the campy, cheesiness of the original too! I'll give it a go and try to tell myself it's an AU, a really weird AU if necessary, but I suspect it won't work for me. The Dukes of Hazzard worked for me, but I was never a big fan of the TV show (unlike A Team) and the movie didn't take itself seriously (unlike the A Team movie).

Guess we'll have to wait and see. I think your idea is much better, though! *bg*

EDIT: Just noticed from the comments that the movie is being done by the Numb3rs guys - so maybe it'll be okay - I do like Numb3rs.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

just have to wait and see. at this rate, it'll take a year or more ;)

[belisse.livejournal.com]

I love your idea for the V team.... if only studio executives paid more attention to us.

Still... is hilarious.... maybe you could turn it into an alternative action figure episodes.... only they would have SGA's clothing. hmmmm....

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Hmm..... :)

[2bluaeryn.livejournal.com]

Me like the V-team ideal, esp. the Rachel Luttrell part( and she can remain the heart too) ^-^

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Ah, if only. I'd watch it! :)