Do you remember The A-Team movie?

I search high and low endlessly for someone to have mentioned this before me but nobody ever has. Well, I typed it into Google and looked at the first 2 responses. I just don't have patience. Anyway...

In '99 David O' Russell made Three Kings. Being a Clooney fan I was cinema bound and walked out knowing I had seen something good. I immediately bought the DVD and watched it a further couple of times to satisfy a curious nagging doubt I had inside my head.

Eventually it hit me like a tonne of pimps: Three Kings IS the backstory to an A-Team Movie.

Clooney is the head of the group, Archie Gates. The brainchild who organises the plans and keeps his cool. Essentially he is the Hannibal Smith of the movie (and who wouldn't dream of him taking that role if offered?)

Marky Mark plays Troy Barlow, family man FACEd with torture. Okay, that was flimsy but in some weird world women are attracted to His Funkyness. Odd considering he looks like a mongoloid and and android had a childoid. But whatever.

Ice Cube plays... Ice Cube. He blathers on about a ring of Jesus fire - a condition my local Chinese Takeaway has given me on more than one occasion with it's Onion Rings. But as a black gentlemen and his (apparently not Fat) build he is the BA substitute.

Finally Spike Jonze plays Conrad Vig, a cracker with a passion for shooting guns. He is the Murdock of the group - not much rolling around in his head at all. The only thing that flaws my already usually flawed logic is that he dies. Ho - hum.

But it isn't just the characters that sell the A-Team idea. Anyone who remembers the opening narration will be familiar with:

"In 1972 a crack commando unit was sent to prison for a crime they didn't commit..."

In the film they do commit the crime - stealing Gold, however, the crime the A-Team had commited was ALSO stealing Gold but during the Vietnam War.

And as the movie drawers to a conclusion we see the men out of the army life and in steady jobs. Clooney works in the movies.... JUST like Hannibal in the original series.

I doubt these are coincidences but I can only hope if the ACTUAL A-Team film gets made it's even half as daring and entertaining as Three Kings.