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First Look at 'The A-Team Van'; Plus New Cast Addition 
Their wheels haven't changed much in 25 years
By Robert Falconer | Monday, September 21, 2009
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SplashNews has scooped the first shots from the British Columbia Interior location of The A-Team, showing the iconic van being used in a chase scene. You can check out the larger photos of the van below.

Meanwhile, Entertainment Weekly is reporting that Patrick Wilson (Watchmen) will appear in the film as a CIA operative. Wilson joins Liam Neeson (John "Hannibal" Smith), Bradley Cooper (Templeton "Face" Peck), Sharlto Copley (H.M. "Howling Mad" Murdock), Quinton "Rampage" Jackson (B.A. Baracus) and Jessica Biel (Faceman's ex-flame).

Director Joe Carnahan (Smokin' Aces, Narc) and the Scott brothers promise to "slick up" their action film adaptation of the '80s series. In the original story, four Vietnam vets convicted of armed robbery escape from military prison and became do-gooder mercenaries.

The Middle East will replace Vietnam as the place the four did their tour of duty, but Carnahan said the origin story is the jumping-off point.

The original series, which ran from 1983-87 and starred George Peppard, Mr. T, Dirk Benedict and Dwight Schultz, followed an unofficial team of Vietnam vets who will stop at nothing to get the bad guys. Sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit, these four commandos escaped from a maximum-security stockade and now survive in the Los Angeles underground as soldiers of fortune.

Stephen J. Cannell, who created the show, will produce the movie with Jules Daly, Ridley Scott, with Tony Scott executive producing through their Scott Free banner.

Also producing is Stephen J. Cannell, creator of the original TV series.

The A-Team is scheduled to arrive in theaters on June 11, 2010.




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