4:40AM Defamer Hollywood | We’ve long believed that of all of Mr. T’s deeply subversive acting work of the ’80s, nothing demands a more serious reappraisal through the prism of contemporary social issues than
The A-Team. Especially an
A-Team directed by John Singleton,
whom Fox has nabbed for its feature-length adaptation to open in summer 2009. Alas, with the updating reportedly focusing on a group of Iraq War veterans railroaded for a crime they didn’t commit, Singleton requires a kinder, gentler, less gold-plated ‘Nam vet anti-hero B.A. Baracus to carpool his batch of mercenaries in that famous black van.
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