Back in May the Bloated Penguin wrote a bit about the cast announcements for The A-Team, the movie, that post can be seen here. Well the official cast has been tapped since then, Liam Neeson as Hannibal, Bradley Cooper as Face, previously it was believed that Common would play B.A. Baracus, but that role has official been assigned to UFC fighter Quinton “Rampage” Jackson and now Sharlto Copely (Wikus from District 9) as Murdock. The filming has apparently started filming in Vancouver which got me to thinking of the TV series.
This show was easily one of my favorites as a kid. Also this was one of the very things that my dad and I did together was watch The A-Team, the old man worked a lot, not that he didn’t love me or some shit. I digress. We would both always be fascinated in how they concocted a plan and then executed to near perfection. My dads favorite character was Murdock, cus he was a goof ball and my dad just likes people that can make him laugh. My personal favorite was Mr. T, who can hate on those chains and mohawk.
If you’ve never seen The A-Team here’s the premise, a group of ex-United States Army Special Force soldiers become soldiers of fortune while running from the military for a “…Crime they didn’t commit”. Even though they were soldiers of fortune, they always sided with the good, essentially there was always a happy ending at the end of every episode. Sadly the show only ran for 5 seasons before NBC canceled it due to poor ratings. The original cast consisted of George Peppard as Hannibal, Dwight Schultz as Murdock, Mr. T as B.A. Baracus and Dirk Benedict as Face.
September 21st, 2009 at 8:10 am
Don’t forget the fact that this show, along with Knight Rider, had one of the greatest theme songs of all time.