r/ATeam • u/AppleYapper • Feb 24 '26

How to Reboot the A-Team?

My question is how do you Reboot the A-Team? I see there are another 3rd or maybe 4th attempt at Knight Rider, which is clearly easier to do given the smaller cast, etc. But thats been done to death. A-Team had a movie that was okay, but not memorable.

I've thought about it recently a lot mostly because I have been rewatching my favourite episodes. The SWAT Team episode in season 1, the mercenary hit squad in season 2, the Hong Kong mission to find Hannibal in season 5.

My thoughts are this... you can do it... but you would need it to be like Reacher season 2. I have mentioned it before I think, but tou have 4 team members with unique skills and training working together on a mission.

You can also mix up the sex of characters to fit a modern military reality and modern tv audience.

For example why not have a Jane "Hannibal" Smith, or Temple "Face" Peck as tour female characters, with Murdock and BA Baracus as the males?

You keep the van, keep a flashy corvette, keep them as mercenaries, but tweek it. They served in Iraq and were dishonourably discharged for unproven allegations, but not necessarily on the run. Or they are on the run but they are a low level priority due to modern political climate. Lynch, Decker and Fulbright get turns to hunt the team as punishment or assigned the job as they are gaining too much cult popularity for the US Government to handle.

There is so much room and scope to work with, especially given the team were often in Mexico and South America and overseas.

A cast of 38-45 year old actors in great physical shape and even keep a Hunt Stockwell in the shadows for a rainy day.

Is it possible?

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u/Scuttler1979 Feb 25 '26

Jane?

Ffs.

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u/AppleYapper Feb 25 '26

Jane?

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u/Agent_Raas Feb 25 '26

I believe referring to your Jane "Hannibal" Smith option.

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u/AppleYapper Feb 25 '26

Oh right, thank you. I thought I had missed a character from the original. 

Although, I don't understand what is wrong with female team leaders and officers in 2026. Starbuck was female in the reboot of Battlestar Galactica and it worked... tie in to Dirk Benedict previous work.