WTF?

[buddhamike]

Joe Carnahan's directing The A-Team?

Joe Fucking Carnahan?

Joe "Narc and Smokin' Aces" Carnahan?

You couldn't have shocked me more if you'd told me Rob Zombie was doing the big-screen version of Three's Company.

Comments

[superbus]

Is... uh, that a good thing? I'm not a movie guy.

[buddhamike]

I...really don't know.

I mean, think about The A-Team, one of the campier 80s show. Kid friendly, wholesome entertainment. Well, as wholesome as a TV show with a dozen explosions a week can be. Now, picture a movie about The A-Team being directed by a guy whose last flick had a coked-out Jeremy Piven, Ben Affleck getting machine-gunned by a trio of Neo-Nazi brothers, Jason Bateman in women's lingerie, a pair of lesbian hitwomen, one of whom kills at least a dozen people with a .50-cal sniper rifle, a ton of hookers, enough blood to paint the White House red, and the word "fuck" uttered every 3.7 seconds. Doesn't that seem like a bit of an odd marriage?

[superbus]

Society's changed too much for the A-Team to remain the campy show that it was in the 80s. Look at what happened to Transformers; it sold like hotcakes, though anyone with a brain that watched the older series said it sucked. The A-Team will be changed because it's just what happens twenty years after a show gets cancelled. This is a cash grab, and it really doesn't matter in the long run who's directing.

I'm sure he'll change things drastically, but anyone will. Old A-Team probably wouldn't sell as well in 2009.

[cygnia]

I could totally see Piven as Hannibal though. :)

[mikes_mind]

I liked Smokin' Aces. it'll be interesting to see what he does with the material.

[jaewin564]

Ugh. I hated Smokin' Aces.

[grayjedi]

You couldn't have shocked me more if you'd told me Rob Zombie was doing the big-screen version of Three's Company.

License. To. Print. Money!