The tortured, prolonged trek of James Cameron’s blue-skinned alien opus from gem of an idea to the big screen near pales in comparison to the travails of the A-Team movie.

Attempting to birth itself as early as the mid 1990s, the film wallowed in production limbo for over a decade before powerhouse siblings Ridley and Tony Scott finally came onboard to give the project the injection of adrenaline that it desperately needed.

“Tony and I feel that marrying this Scott Free project with [director] Joe’s sensibility will result in a fast-paced, exciting franchise, one we hope will be around for years to come,” Ridley said.

They boarded the reboot in January 2009. Just over a year later, the film is almost here – a testament to their present Hollywood heft.