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Q: I loved the big-screen "A-Team" movie from a few years ago. I assumed it was the first of a series, but nothing else has come out. Are they making a sequel?

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Adam Thomlison / TV Media

Sadly, it seems that ship, or perhaps tank, has sailed. (For those who don't get that reference, the film's protagonists attempt to "fly" a tank using a parachute at one point -- it was that kind of movie.)

According to writer-director Joe Carnahan, he and the studio "blew it" with the 2010 film's marketing, and now a sequel is unlikely.

Audiences weren't sure what to make of it, he said -- people were expecting a goofy send-up of '80s action shows like the original "A-Team" (which was itself not innocent of a little goofiness). "If I had a nickel for every time someone, especially women, came up to me and said they were dragged to the film but ended up liking it ..." he said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. "That's how you know you blew it."

Nonetheless, he said in an interview with MTV that he was happy with the final product, and would "love" to do another, but that the possibility of a sequel would depend on how well the first did in DVD sales. That was his last word on it, and it came nearly seven years ago, which suggests the sales were less than compelling.

 

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