I am still ASTOUNDED when I ask people if they’ve watched District 9 and they reply in the negative. “Is it good?” they ask. Is it good? IS IT GOOD? Heh….umm did you miss the fact that it’s virtually 100% South African and it’s one of the best selling movies on the planet at the moment? Did you miss the fact that virtually EVERYONE is giving it close to ten out of ten and the fact that EVERYONE is talking about it? And I’m not talking about the likes of Bazza Ronge – I’m talking about real voices – like Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair magazines. How long are you going to let this go on? Don’t you feel like a tit every time someone asks if you’ve seen it and you say no? God, how emboerboer! Don’t you want to learn about prawns?

Sharlto Copley
Plays Wikus van de Merwe in District 9

So anyway, you can carry on living in that revolting little bubble of yours, but, for the rest of you (those of us who have seen the ALL-SOUTH-AFRICAN global hit movie, District 9), you’ll be interested to note that Sharlto Copley (the guy that played Wikus van de Merwe in the movie, alongside 2oceansvibe friend Vanessa Haywood) has been offered the role of Howling Mad Murdock in the big screen adaptation of the greatest TV show of your life, The A-Team!

No, I would never make something like that up.

The A-Team
(clockwise from left)
Faceman, Murdock, “B.A.” Baracus
and Hannibal Smith (R.I.P.)

Check this out (Empire):

With District 9 tearing up the US box office, there’s been a flood of speculation about the next step for its star, the insanely naturally-talented first-time actor Sharlto Copley, who played the lovable hero, Wikus van der Merwe. But we have to confess that we didn’t see this one coming: according to Blackfilm.com, Copley has been approached to play Howling Mad Murdock in Joe Carnahan’s The A-Team.

Apparently, the deal is only at the offer stage, but while Copley might have slight concern at being typecast as a goofball, we’d be amazed if he didn’t take the role of the team’s borderline insane pilot, thus filling out a cast that already includes Liam Neeson as Col. Hannibal Smith, Bradley Cooper as Templeton ‘Faceman’ Peck, and Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson as B.A. Baracus.

When Empire spoke to Copley recently, he confessed to being uncertain about his next step. And while we feel that he has true leading man material – check out that jawline! – it might not be such a bad thing for him to play fourth banana in a big-budget movie, and therefore reduce the pressure on him to knock it out of the park second time round.

Also, let’s face it, it’s pretty damn good casting. Copley is a naturally funny, and hugely confident, guy, and has enough quirk about him to make him a worthy successor to Dwight Schultz, who originated the role on the TV show.

[read more here]

Well that’s all pretty interesting, but I think we just need to get to the point of all of this – it’s just an excuse to watch the opening credits of The A-Team TV series which we all, as kids, wanted inside us. I still have a copy inside me.

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All I’m saying is, “In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn’t commit. They promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no-one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the A-Team.”

See what I did there?

[thanks paul]