It looks like “The A-Team” has a sensible team of creative folks who will bring the 1980′s TV Series to the big screen. Twentieth Century Fox has joined Joe Carnahan to direct and Ridley Scott to produce with his brother Tony executive produce under their Scott Free banner with the movie opening summer 2010 film.

I’ve met Joe Carnahan; he’s from my neck of the woods, northern California.  The guy can articulate and knows direction. Carnahan is set to work with Brian Bloom to upgrade the script by Skip Woods (G.I. Joe).

Hopefully, production will start June 2009.

If you have been following the route of bringing “The A-Team” to the big screen, then you are familiar with the pot holes Fox has been trying to avoid the series’ original campy tone. Director John Singleton had most recently been attached to try such an attempt before dropping out. Woods came in and started over.

According to Variety, Carnahan and the Scott brothers will use the original premise of the series as the template for an action film. In the original, four Vietnam vets convicted of armed robbery escape from military prison and became do-gooder mercenaries. The Middle East will replace Vietnam as the place the four did their tour of duty, but Carnahan said the origin story is the jumping-off point.