The A-Team - Movie Update . . . Again.

So once again, the talk of an A-Team movie is hot again, even while my first-tier list of actors grows older and less appropriate to take on the signature safari jackets, black leather gloves, and AR SP-1 rifles.

Here's the latest:

The A-Team Countdown Begins

If you've been holding your breath for The A-Team movie, well, we feel sorry for you.

But help is on the way for you and your oxygen-deprived brain. So just hold on. Until June 12. Of next year. Feel better? You should, actually.

The release date, as reported by Variety, is the first for the long-discussed, long-suffering project.

John Singleton, who last yelled cut on Four Brothers, will direct; Michael Bandt and Derek Haas, who helped shoot the lights out with 3:10 to Yuma, are writing the screenplay.

As reported, the movie will follow the basic recipe of the 1983-87 TV series: Take four ex-military men; add one war crime they didn't commit; mix in chases, pursuits and more chases.

Given the source material, Singleton has promised an action movie, a serious action movie—"wall to wall kicking ass and talking s--t," as he put it to Collider.com. The film presently is sans actors, A-list, B-team or otherwise, as Singleton himself has made very clear.

There are a few hints of potential actors, despite the director's misgivings about giving out any hints.

Singleton did allow that he "really, really want[s]" Woody Harrelson to play "Howling Mad" Murdoch, the sanity challenged pilot given life on the TV series by Dwight Schultz.

In the interview, conducted in January, Singleton sounded a lot like a man who's been a little bit hounded by fans demanding to know who's going to play Mr. T.

"Nobody is playing Mr. T—the character's name is B.A. Baracus," the filmmaker reminded.

And, no, before you bother Mr. Singleton again, B.A. Baracus hasn't been cast yet, either. Ice Cube, however, has thrown his Mohawk into the ring.

I wouldn't have thought of Ice Cube, but now that you mention it, I think he would be great for the role.

I was always pushing for Ving Rhames, but that was when I first started hearing whispers about the project - ala mid-90s. I don't think he would be such a good fit now.

As for Hannibal Smith - the role immortalized by George Peppard - that would be a hard one to cast, especially with today's focus on younger, more carbon copied actors.

May be a good role for a more grizzled Tom Berenger . . . my personal favorite for a late 80s Frank Castle.

I'll always hold a grudge that the earlier Punisher movie wasn't shot more in line with the comic.

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