Liam Neeson is rumoured to have accepted the role of Col. John “Hannibal” Smith in Joe Carnahan’s remake of the A-Team.

Bradley Cooper is also said to be in line to play smooth talker Templeton “Face Man”.

The Fox movie is being produced by Ridley and Tony Scott. It is reported that it will keep its main theme (wrongly convicted war veterans on the run) but will lose the camp feel and become more action packed in a Mission Impossible manner.

James Nesbitt and Liam Neeson star in award-winning director Oliver Hirschbiegel’s Five Minutes Of Heaven, a unique one-off drama for BBC Two that explores aspects of Northern Ireland’s troubled past and the challenges the future holds in coming to terms with it.

The story begins in 1975 when 17-year-old Alistair Little, a member of the UVF (Ulster Volunteer Force) murdered a 19-year-old Catholic, Jim Griffin, in Lurgan. He was arrested two weeks later, along with three others involved in the shooting, and convicted. Jim’s murder was witnessed by his 11-year-old brother, Joe Griffin.

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