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]]>As for the beloved creation of the late Peppard, Carnahan said fans will still appreciate the roots of the A-Team leader. "[The old Hannibal] is absolutely there," he insisted. "I don't think we sacrificed that one bit."
Carnahan reminisced with MTV, "I think Dirk Benedict gave [Bradley Cooper] the biggest compliment: 'This was who I wanted to be'," Carnahan recalled of the day when the original Templeton Peck visited the set to film a cameo.
During his time there, Benedict had some kind words to say about Cooper's re-interpretation of the character as a manlier, tougher Face. "I'll just give you an example of how different [Cooper's Face] is: Bradley is in an inverted position, almost laying backwards, strapped to the side of this moving truck [in one scene]."
"We took the Lynch character who was in the army - Lynch was the original guy in the pilot that was chasing them - we basically made him a CIA operative, played by Patrick Wilson."
But what of Colonel Decker, Carnahan explains, "We've got a cameo at the end that I can't blow, but it will tell you where this thing is going forward," Carnahan explained, inferring that things will not end well for Lynch. "It was important that we have a main villain that we could dispose of, and another one that can linger on that we can bring back if we make another one of these."
Copley had met with Dwight Schultz, the original Mad Dog Murdock, who confirmed that he would use a vague Texas accent most often when playing the part.
"Sharlto is such a great actor" Carnahan continued, "He has the ability to mimic and compartmentalize each accent. He'd say to me: 'I could go more here, I could pull back there;' it's pretty remarkable he was able to shed that so easily."
The South African seemed to be tireless Carnahan marveled that, "In fact, we got flack from the studio one day, because we shot nine rolls of film of just Sharlto in this one scene; he just kept going and going and going!"
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Will the fans accept Rampage Jackson as the new B.A Baracus? Check out the video below.
"Rampage auditioned for a previous version of [the 'A-Team' movie] when it was ramping up under a different director; different circumstances," Carnahan said in his interview with MTV. "I saw that audition, and thought he was a guy that had some raw skill. A good friend of mine, Ed Quinn - who is a great actor in his own right - worked with Rampage. And I saw his audition after he worked with Ed, and it was like night and day. I brought him to Vancouver to screen test him, and the scene is actually in the movie."
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]]>It was important that we let the fanbase know we hadn't abandoned the television show and the characters everyone loved so much. It was a big part of it and important to convey that. But also to let people know that 25 years have gone by since 'The A-Team' was on the air, and [we] want to evolve that story that needs to be evolved and should be evolved, and I think we spent a considerable amount of time doing that. The approach is gritty and more real world, with everything that is going on in Iraq and the Middle East, there were certain things that I felt were important to conform. ...Because the show was very whimsical and campy at times, and we wanted to avoid that. As much as the dark knight avoids the old Adam West incarnation of Batman, we wanted to do the same thing.
Spying a Marine plane in the trailer gave some old school fans over at IGN some fears that Carnahan had moved the team from the Army to the Navy. Carnahan was quick to reassure them.
]]>Oh, no, they're Army, even to the point where I think we amped that up. I don't want to give it away because I think it's a really cool device we use to kind of bond these guys in a way, and narratively we don't have to spend these long periods of time explaining why they got so close so fast. But listen, I think that if you're a fan of that show and you have any doubts about the movie, you should have none. You have absolutely nothing to worry about.
Fox has finally released a few more press shots to complement the one shot we had been savoring for months. Of course there is the classic shot of Hannibal chomping on a stogie, we finally get a good look at Jessica Biel, and yes, Bradley Cooper as Face, need I say more.
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