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The mid 2000s were a quiet time for the team, as Cannell and Fox plugged away at various script drafts across the years.

Casting rumours came and went – Jim Carrey would play Murdock, Christian Bale would be Face (actually, we still wouldn’t mind him taking this on, if only so he actually smiles again in a film), Gibson locked in as Hannibal and Ving Rhames touted as the new BA.

In 2004, Cannell floated the idea again, this time with an added cameo name-drop. "Mr. T and I had lunch last week, and I'd really like to have him in the movie, although we haven't begun casting. I always think it's nice to see the stars of the old show in cameo roles in the movie. But obviously he won't be playing BA Baracus.”

And in 2006, the producer announced that the movie was going through yet another script fluctuation, with GoldenEye’s Bruce Feirstein ditched from writing duties.

"We were working on a script for a few years but I didn't like it so it's been thrown out," he said. "We've gone through a lot of scripts that we haven't been happy with for one reason or another.

“We had one script writer who had never even watched the show! The studio was adamant about employing him but he just took the title and began to write anything he wanted, completely departing from the original show. The studio didn't like it and neither did I.”

Oh, and Bosnia was now being thrown around as the likely background for the fighting team.

Everything seemed to be shifting: around this time, Bruce Willis (above) was considered a likely choice also an apparent possibility for Hannibal, and that has continued until recently.

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