“Fast & Furious” writer Chris Morgan is set to produce a television revival of the 1980s action series “The A-Team“. Sleepy Hollow executive producer Albert Kim is writing the adaptation. The series will once again follow a diverse team of special forces operatives, but in a world-shattering twist, the new team will have both male and female members.
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Along the way, they are driven to help those in need by using their singular military skills, high-tech expertise and often conflicting individual approaches. The series plays out in a mission-of-the-week format complete with big action and compelling characters. Not all that long ago, there was an attempt to revamp the series as a movie over at Fox, which starred Liam Neeson and Bradley Cooper, that didn’t go all that far and didn’t do all that well.
George Peppard, Dirk Benedict, Dwight Schultz, and Mr. T headlined the original version of The A-Team. Directed by Joe Carnahan, the feature was released in 2010.
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Just as a previous generation of children agreed to household chores so they could stay up on Tuesday nights and watch elite commandos execute Hannibal’s plans, Fox is hoping that this same generation will teach their children to similarly tune in, and see the weekly adventures of a new lineup of wrongly-convicted commandos commit overly elaborate acts of mayhem. Earlier this week, Deadline broke the story of another high-profile reboot that is being shopped at the moment, a Jack Ryan TV series from Carlton Cuse, Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes and Paramount TV. Already airing or in the works are TV series based on Rush Hour (CBS), Limitless (CBS), Uncle Buck (ABC) and Minority Report (Fox).
