News > Singleton to Direct The A-Team Movie

Written by David Morgan

John Singleton has confirmed to BlackVoices that he will be directing a feature film adaptation of the 1980s classic TV show The A-Team, which originally starred George Peppard, Dirk Benedict, Dwight Schultz, and the inimitable Mr. T. The A-Team was a group of Vietnam veterans who were wanted by the U.S. military for a crime they didn't commit. They set out in a big red and black van to aid the innocent and punish the guilty (usually by shooting at their feet and scaring them into surrender).

Stephen J. Cannell, creator of the show, will produce with Spike Seldin. 

Also, according to BlackVoices, "The new A-Team will be updated from the Vietnam era and reflect contemporary issues and politics. Tone of the film will be less cartoony and more serious, in the vein of Die Hard and Lethal Weapon."

I actually think it might be more interesting if they reunited the three surviving members of the original cast, all in their fifties and sixties now, and set them out on some sort of new adventure. Maybe they could incorporate scattering Hannibal's ashes at some point, I don't know. I don't know what they could do exactly, but I do know that there's only one B.A. Baracus. You can recast Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock all you want, but Mr. T is B.A. Baracus.

Also, Singleton is officially not directing Executive Order: Six, as we and so many other news outlets have reported. Presumably he came to his senses about the execrable title.