There aren't enough A-Team threads around.  So here's one:

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Bruce Willis as Hannibal?

September 5, 2006 - Stephen J. Cannell, creator of the popular 1980s TV series The A-Team, hopes to get an updated movie version out soon. An A-Team motion picture has been in the works for a long time, with some half-dozen screenplays commissioned and rejected, but in an interview with Empire Online, Cannell said he had a new writer on the job.

We've gone through a lot of scripts that we haven't been happy with for one reason or another. We had one script writer who had never even watched the show! The studio was adamant about employing him, but he just took the title and began to write anything he wanted, completely departing from the original show. The studio didn't like it and neither did I."

The new script will be a faithful revision of the original A-Team story, taking place in the present time, however, and not in the '80s. Instead of being Vietnam veterans wrongfully pursued for a crime, the team will be Gulf War soldiers. The personalities of the four leads have to be expected to change a little as well; there's only one Mr. T after all, and few actors could pull off the unique brand of insanity Dwight Schultz ("Murdoch") exhibited.

"I don't know if B.A. can say 'I pity the fool' because that is so Mr. T," explained Cannell, "but Hannibal will certainly be saying, 'I love it when a plan comes together.' Little things like that will get a big laugh."

Cannell would like to get the surviving original actors to appear in cameo roles. As for the title characters themselves, he has at least one name in mind: Bruce Willis as Hannibal.

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Now, nothing can match the original A Team for sheer fabness.  It was like the best thing to come out of the 80s.  The concepts still a good-un though and I reckon it'll translate well to the big screen, paticularly with the creator of the show in charge.  Not so sure about Willis playing Hannibal though.

So...  who would you cast?