The Stuff

So… they’re making an A-Team movie, due for release in 2009. Read this Yahoo article if you care:

John Singleton, who last yelled cut on Four Brothers, will direct; Michael Bandt and Derek Haas, who helped shoot the lights out with 3:10 to Yuma, are writing the screenplay.

As reported, the movie will follow the basic recipe of the 1983-87 TV series: Take four ex-military men; add one war crime they didn’t commit; mix in chases, pursuits and more chases.

Given the source material, Singleton has promised an action movie, a serious action movie—”wall to wall kicking ass and talking s–t,” as he put it to Collider.com. The film presently is sans actors, A-list, B-team or otherwise, as Singleton himself has made very clear.

“I don’t know who is in the cast yet, so all this bulls–t of who is saying who is this person and who is [this person],” Singleton told Collider.com.

Who would you cast? Here’s who I would cast:

B.A. Baracus: Kimbo Slice. He couldn’t grow a mohawk if he wanted to, but Kimbo is every bit as bad as Mr. T circa 1983, if not badder.

I give up after that.

Sometimes I forget that this blog sort of resembles the A-Team van.