Now that the A-Team trailer has hit the net, the director Joe Carnahan wants to assure fans of the original show that they are not left behind with the new movie.  He states that 25 years have passed since the A-Team's debut and it was necessary to evolve the parts of the story and to give it a real world feel, while keeping the levity of the original storyline.






It was important that we let the fanbase know we hadn't abandoned the television show and the characters everyone loved so much. It was a big part of it and important to convey that. But also to let people know that 25 years have gone by since 'The A-Team' was on the air, and [we] want to evolve that story that needs to be evolved and should be evolved, and I think we spent a considerable amount of time doing that. The approach is gritty and more real world, with everything that is going on in Iraq and the Middle East, there were certain things that I felt were important to conform. ...Because the show was very whimsical and campy at times, and we wanted to avoid that. As much as the dark knight avoids the old Adam West incarnation of Batman, we wanted to do the same thing.


Also when interviewed by IGN about the trailer, Carnahan wanted to assure fans that The A-Team was still originally a part of the Army despite showing a Marine plane in part of the 2010 A-Team movie trailer

IGN: They are still Army, right? Because there's a scene in the trailer where we see them in a Marine plane.

Carnahan: Oh, no, they're Army, even to the point where I think we amped that up. I don't want to give it away because I think it's a really cool device we use to kind of bond these guys in a way, and narratively we don't have to spend these long periods of time explaining why they got so close so fast. But listen, I think that if you're a fan of that show and you have any doubts about the movie, you should have none. You have absolutely nothing to worry about.

sources:
MTV
IGN