A Jedi Hangover for the A Team ?

Wow that is a weird title, anyway it seems Fox are aiming high...well high-ish in Cooper's case,...for their big screen redo of the classic 80's TV show 'The A Team'. Variety reports that they are lining up Bradley Cooper as Templeton 'Face' Peck and the one and only Liam Neeson for the role of Col John 'Hannibal' Smith.

Liam Neeson is in negotiations with 20th Century Fox to star in its long-gestating bigscreen adaptation of "The A-Team" as Col. John "Hannibal" Smith. Bradley Cooper is in early talks to play Lt. Templeton "Faceman" Peck in the Joe Carnahan-directed pic based on the 1980s TV series.

Production begins in late August for a June 11, 2010, release.

Ridley Scott is producing with Jules Daly and series creator Stephen J. Cannell, with Tony Scott exec producing through Scott Free. Carnahan and Brian Bloom polished a script by Skip Woods, whose recent script credits include "G.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra" and "Wolverine."

Neeson is in talks to play Hannibal, the role originated by George Peppard, while Cooper would play "Faceman," the role played by Dirk Benedict.

Neeson and Fox are working out money issues. He is coming off the global hit "Taken" and most recently completed "Chloe" and "Clash of the Titans," playing Zeus in the latter.

Cooper has established himself as a commodity after his starring role in Todd Phillips-directed hit "The Hangover." He just completed playing the title role opposite Sandra Bullock in "All About Steve."

Carnahan, Fox and Scott Free have kept the series premise -- four war vets wrongly convicted of armed robbery escape from a military prison to become do-gooder mercenaries -- but they've replaced the campy nature of the series with a tone closer to those of "Mission: Impossible" and "Ocean's Eleven."

Now on the surface this seems pretty cool, especially if like me you are a fan of the old show, however the writer on this project is Skip Woods and as you can see, his credits are dubious, plus Joe Carnahan is erratic to say the least. However the A Team is a pretty simple formula and Ridley Scott is producing thus it can't be to hard to get right with decent leads even at Fox.....can it ?