According to a report in Variety, A-Team star Bradley Cooper is Steven Soderbergh’s choice to replace George Clooney as Napoleon Solo in his upcoming remake of the classic 1960s spy series The Man from UNCLE.

Clooney dropped out of the movie recently citing concerns over exacerbating earlier injuries, and Soderbergh has been seeking a new leading man to play the role created by Robert Vaughn. Cooper recreated Dirk Benedict’s role as Face for the recent reinvention of The A-Team, and is best known for his role in The Hangover.

The Man from UNCLE starred Robert Vaughn and David McCallum as agents for UNCLE – the United Network Command for Law and Enforcement – battling the villainous THRUSH (the acronym wasn’t meant to stand for anything, although in the spin-off novels it became the Technological Hierarchy for the Removal of Undesirables and the Subjugation of Humanity). The show ran for four years, spawning a short-lived spin-off, The Girl from UNCLE, and a reunion movie, The Return of the Man from UNCLE in 1983, which is chiefly remembered for featuring George Lazenby reprising his role as a British secret service agent driving an Aston Martin with the number plate JB.

 

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