Jessica Biel Finds The A-Team with Liam Neeson in the Vancouver-lensed update... September 16th 2009 04:14am | Posted by: Michael Stevens, HNR Senior Editor Actress Jessica "Powder Blue" Biel will join the Vancouver-lensed feature The A-Team, adapting the 1980's TV series for director Joe "Narc" Carnahan. Biel will play a former lover of the character known as 'Faceman'. Actor Liam "Dark Man" Neeson has also been cast as 'Col. Hanibal Smith'. The film started production September 14 and will lense until Dec 11, with a 20th Century Fox theatrical release date set for June 11, 2010. Sir Ridley "Blade Runner" Scott will produce the film with Jules Daly and series co-creator Stephen J. Cannell. Ridley's brother Tony "Domino" Scott will executive produce for the Scott Free company. Carnahan and Brian Bloom developed the screenplay by Skip "Wolverine" Woods. The original TV series The A-Team was an action adventure about a group of ex-US Army Special Forces soldiers who work as mercenaries, while on the run from the military for a "crime they didn't commit". The show was created by writer/producers Frank Lupo and Cannell (who also collaborated on the Vancouver-lensed Wiseguy) and Dirty Harry TV series knockoff Hunter. The A-Team series aired for five seasons on NBC, January 23, 1983 to December 30, 1986 for a total of 98 episodes. The name of the show is derived from 'A-teams', a code word for the 'Operational Detachments Alpha (ODA), used by the US Army Special Forces for their 12-man direct operations teams. Click on the Marvrel Comics cover images to enlarge and Sneak Peek a clip from the 1980's series The A-Team... Source: VancouverFilm.Net In: Vancouver & BC News |Visit the HNR Forums

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