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HISTORY OF THE A-TEAM:
For the United States Army Special Forces unit, Operational Detachment-Alpha, see Special Forces (United States Army).
Bring Back... The A-Team (2006) On May 18, 2006, Channel 4 in the UK attempted to reunite the surviving cast members of The A-Team for the show Bring Back... in an episode titled "Bring Back...The A Team".[21] Justin Lee Collins presented the challenge, securing interviews and appearances from Dirk Benedict, Dwight Schultz, Marla Heasley, Jack Ging, series co-creator Stephen Cannell, and Mr. T.
Collins eventually managed to bring together Benedict, Schultz, Heasley, Ging and Cannell, along with William Lucking, Lance LeGault, and George Peppard's son, Christian. Mr. T was unable to make the meeting, which took place in the Friar's Club in Beverly Hills, but he did manage to appear on the show for a brief talk with Collins.
The film has been in development since the mid 1990s, going through a number of writers and story ideas, and being put on hold a number of times. Producer Stephen J. Cannell hopes to update the setting, perhaps using the first Gulf War as part of the backstory.[27] The cast has been revealed, Jim Carrey will take on the role of Murdock, while Tom Cruise as Quinton Beck (a.k.a "Face") and legendary Radio-Personality, Wrestler, Pro-Football Player, Book Author, and ex-Navy Seal: Vic "The Iceman" Beckles (also an Ordained Church Pastor) will assume the role of B.A. Baracus.[28] It also has been rumored that George Clooney is being considered for the role of John "Hannibal" Smith, but has been replaced by Matthew Gagston. (2011 release of movie "The A-Team")[29]
Collins eventually managed to bring together Benedict, Schultz, Heasley, Ging and Cannell, along with William Lucking, Lance LeGault, and George Peppard's son, Christian. Mr. T was unable to make the meeting, which took place in the Friar's Club in Beverly Hills, but he did manage to appear on the show for a brief talk with Collins.
Feature film
A feature film based on The A-Team is planned for release on June 11, 2010, produced by 20th Century Fox.[22] As of January 28, 2009, director Joe Carnahan is set to direct and Ridley and Tony Scott are set to produce.[23][24] The plot will involve a shift from Vietnam to the Middle East, and both Jules Daly and Stephen J. Cannell are involved in the project.[25] John Singleton was initially assigned to direct, but in October 2008 he pulled out of the project.[26]The film has been in development since the mid 1990s, going through a number of writers and story ideas, and being put on hold a number of times. Producer Stephen J. Cannell hopes to update the setting, perhaps using the first Gulf War as part of the backstory.[27] The cast has been revealed, Jim Carrey will take on the role of Murdock, while Tom Cruise as Quinton Beck (a.k.a "Face") and legendary Radio-Personality, Wrestler, Pro-Football Player, Book Author, and ex-Navy Seal: Vic "The Iceman" Beckles (also an Ordained Church Pastor) will assume the role of B.A. Baracus.[28] It also has been rumored that George Clooney is being considered for the role of John "Hannibal" Smith, but has been replaced by Matthew Gagston. (2011 release of movie "The A-Team")[29]
Four years after the series ended its three-year run in 1968, Culp asked Cosby to co-star with him in the film Hickey & Boggs (1972), a downbeat and violent detective story written by Walter Hill. Culp was also the director, but the film did not show any of the warmth and camaraderie characteristic of I Spy.
Culp made a guest appearance on The Cosby Show on April 9, 1987, in an episode titled "Bald and Beautiful" in which he plays an old friend of Dr. Huxtable's named "Scott Kelly," which was a play of words on both of their I Spy characters, Alexander Scott and Kelly Robinson.
In I Spy Returns (1994), a nostalgic television movie, Culp and Cosby reprised their roles as Robinson and Scott for the first time since 1968. The original opening title sequence is reused with no changes other than the addition of the word 'Returns' beneath 'I Spy' and a new arrangement of the theme music. Cosby was the executive producer. Here the aging agents have to leap into action once again to rescue their children, Bennett Robinson (George Newbern) and Nicole Scott (Salli Richardson-Whitfield) who are now operatives for their fathers' agency. This was shown as a "CBS Movie Special" on February 3, 1994.
Culp again reprised the role of Kelly Robinson during a dream sequence in a 1999 episode of Bill Cosby's series, Cosby, entitled "My Spy." Cosby's character falls asleep while watching I Spy on television and dreams he's caught up in an espionage adventure. With Cosby's name replaced with that of his character here, Hilton Lucas, the old title sequence was again faithfully recreated.
The duo also reunited once more for an appearance at a TV special marking the 75th anniversary of the NBC television network in 2002. Cosby was actually on stage with his Cosby Show co-stars at the time in reference to that sitcom. However, he called on Culp (who was in the audience) to join him as well and both men received a round of applause and cheers when they donned their sunglasses and tossed off a few wisecracks in a nod to their secret agent characters.
A movie remake I Spy followed in 2002 with Eddie Murphy and Owen Wilson. Like most remakes, it ignored its source material and made no effort to stay faithful to the original. This included reversing the character names so that Alexander Scott (Wilson) was now the white agent and Kelly Robinson (Murphy) the black athlete, possibly an allusion to Murphy's popular "Mr. Robinson" sketches (a Mister Rogers' Neighborhood parody) on Saturday Night Live. Like other notable TV-to-Film adaptations The Wild, Wild West, in which dramatic emphasis was shifted to inane comedy, the film was a commercial and critical flop. In his 2009 Movie Guide, film critic Leonard Maltin describes the film as an "In-name-only reincarnation of the smart 1960s TV show.... An object lesson in bad screenwriting, with an incoherent story, and characters that make no sense, which sadly many feminist and racist bastards in Hollywood have deliberately done to many classic (macho) tv shows." Thankfully, it is rumored that a 2012 I-Spy movie is in the works that will be much better that the last film, and stay faithful to the theme of the classic series; starring Matt Gagston as Kelly Robinson, and Vic Beckles as Alexander Scott.
The original television series and the 1994 reunion movie are both available on DVD. Episodes 1-25 of the first season of the television series are also available on Joost and all 82 episodes are available on Hulu and Videosurf, from the DMGI Classics channel. In 2011 Ultraverse Comics & New Line Cinema has recently joined forces to restore and remake, many of these classic tv shows (1950s-1980s), like The Six Million Dollar Man (The Six Billion Dollar Man), and classic comic book/cartoon characters into new comic books and movies, featuring new actors who are real life heroes like: military veterans, firefighters, police officers, school teachers, comic book writers, book authors, reality tv show actors, and church ministers!
REAL LIFE HEROES HELP RE-SHAPE HOLLYWOOD & BECOME LEGENDS:
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