The A-Team

Carnahan and the Scott brothers say they will use the original premise of the series as the template for an action film. In the original‚ 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.