Posted: 7/9/2008 7:45:12 PM EDT
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Found this on another forum and did some googling and saw that it looks legit. (Sorry if its been posted already, didn't see any posts on it yet). 'Red Dawn' redo lands director, scribe MGM will remake the 1984 action drama By Jay A. Fernandez and Borys Kit July 9, 2008, 12:00 AM ET "Red Dawn" will be redone. Screenwriter Carl Ellsworth has been hired to recraft the ultimate homeland invasion story about a new generation of besieged high schoolers. Dan Bradley, a second unit director and/or stunt coordinator on "The Bourne Ultimatum," "Spider-Man 3" and the forthcoming "Quantum of Solace," will move into the director's chair for the update. Contrafilm's Beau Flynn and Tripp Vinson will produce. MGM toppers Harry Sloan and Mary Parent announced the remake -- along with a big-budget rebuild of "RoboCop," which director Darren Aronofsky among others has recently been in to discuss -- in May at the Festival de Cannes. As the studio regroups, its executives have realized that the strong MGM library has numerous classic and cult properties it can exploit for a new audience. "The tone is going to be very intense, very much keeping in mind the post-9/11 world that we're in," says Ellsworth, who was 11 when the original was released. "As 'Red Dawn' scared the heck out of people in 1984, we feel that the world is kind of already filled with a lot of paranoia and unease, so why not scare the hell out of people again?" Ellsworth will be working from a story written by Jeremy Passmore. Vincent Newman ("A Man Apart") is also acting in a producer capacity. The original "Dawn" was the Cold War brainchild of writer-director John Milius, who devised a World War III invasion of America by the Soviets and Cubans. The film followed the scrappy insurgency of a group of Midwestern teenagers who take on their high school mascot name -- "Wolverines!" -- as a rallying cry of resistance. The 1984 action drama was the first film released in theaters with the newly devised PG-13 rating because of its intense subject matter and violent content. Ellsworth, who is repped by ICM and the Shuman Co., most recently handed in an adaptation of Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra's comics series "Y: The Last Man" to New Line. He also wrote "Red Eye," co-wrote "Disturbia" and rewrote the screenplay for the "Last House on the Left" remake, produced by the original film's writer-director, Wes Craven. Rogue Pictures will release it early next year. Bradley also is repped by ICM. |
Sooo,, instead of Cubans & Soviets, it will be Middle easterns coming? With suicide bombers keeping towns in check behind the line? The chair is now away from the wall,, John has a beard |
Nope - This time we are the invaders. 
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Yeah no doubt they'd make the bad guys to be Bush and the US Military instead of the Cubans and Russkies. Plus your rebel kids would be a politically correct group with all races represented equally. Robert will become Roberto, and the leader Jed has to become Jed-Mo-dee. |
As in it is considered the midwest, or it isn't considered the midwest? I'm honestly asking, I don't know. |
| ten bucks says it will be a horde of evil whacko white christians with guns that revolt and they'll be fought off by non-whites with a few queers thrown in.... can't wait to see how they screw this up... oh yeah and there will be something to do with global warming in there too.. |
I heard that while China had a large army, they had no Navy.  If that's true, how would they get here aside from swimming the Pacific ocean?* *Now that would be interesting. |
+1 There is no way they could make a movie that cool today. There would be a bunch of CGI ED-209's, Robocop would be CGI, and in general it would be a CGI lovefest. Bleah. Av. |
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it's hard to run an army on noodles, china would run out of gas real quick, thats why Japan kicked the crap out of them for ten years, Japan has more fish in there diet. Remake without Milius would be a waste of time. remake any classic you want but it's like trying to lose your virginity twice, an impossible feat. |
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No doubt it'll be a watered down shitfest of a movie that simply has a known movie title slapped on it in hopes of drawing a loyal fan following of the original... It'll never hold up. and what was that about a re-do of Robocop? Jesus... it's not that old and it definitely holds up against any sci-fi action movie today. It's so much a classic kick-ass movie. Really, it's almost flawless in every way. Next thing you know they're going to try to remake The Thing... another movie that'll stand the test of time long after I'm dead and gone. |
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If they did something where a massive amount of sleeper cells activated and brought down enough of the US infrastructure to allowing China to invade with little resistance as the back story while the main story still focused on a small group of rebels/patriots trying to stand their ground against insane odds, while not pushing an anti-gun thing and not watering down the violence... maybe even taking it close to the last Rambo movie, only not as ridiculous... It could be good. Problem is, unless they have amazing writing a acting they'll fuck it all up by making trying to make the "kids" hip, wisecracking, using lame gen-x lingo, and playing up the usual stereotypes. If it happens I won't hold out much hope. The original set the bar higher than most movies of that decade. |
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It's Red Dawn. It has to be a communist attack. You know everyone acts like communism is dead, but we've got China and south of our border Cuba and don't forget our good friend Hugo Chavez. Plus, you've got Russia ready to slip back into Communism at any point. This movie would not be hard to do we are always only about six steps away from WWIII. The Republic lives on a knife's edge folks. 64 active conflicts in the world today...Americans take for granted our security when at any point war could come here. Mix a failure in the middle east (Iraq and Afghanistan) leading to collapse of nato add a serious energy crisis and the breaking of economic ties with China and you could see a War that would make WWII look like a small conflict by comparison. |
answered my own question, and off topic here |
In the remake, "Red" will refer to the coloring of GOP states red in election maps. Obama will lead a group of college students consisting of minorities, muslims, and gays in a non-violent insurgency against Dictator Bush and his minions (the US Army...which will consist solely of elementery-school dropouts and people with multiple violent felonies). All will seem to be lost when the UN makes a breakthrough with the help of Hamas and establishes a new socialist paradise in North America, forever uniting Canada and Mexico with the new US. Or something like that. |
with a mainland invasion of america? you're joking right? |
All of those "axis of evil" countries, as many and as huge as they are don't even have to sack to plow through Israel, and they completely surround it. I can't imagine they could get their shit together enough to group and cross an ocean for a mainland invasion of the US. It's more likely that China would walk across the Bering Straight and march down the left coast. |
Apparently it's going to be a sequel that takes 20 years later, NOT a remake (I'd rather a crappy sequel than a crappy remake). Can read it here |
They easily have the power to nuke Israel back to the stone age a few times over, but they wont do it because they know that for every homegrown nuke they have we have a few silos of missiles with a dozen warheads in each nosecone... |
I'm with ya! I'd LOVE to see a new version. It's the same as any classic movie out there. If remade nicely, it can complement the original. Nothing is ever meant to REPLACE the original. Now if they make it some pinko, pandering, liberal douchefest, then no one will see it. Red Dawn attracts a specific demographic! |
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China and Russia. It would take both working in concert to effect a serious invasion of the United States of America. All it would take would be a cut in economic relations between them and ourselves mixed with a food or energy crisis. Both nations continue to experience rapid economic growth, both have conducted joint military exercises, and if suddenly it appeared they would not be able to sustain their economy or people because of acts by the United States Government they may attempt to take over the US and install a more friendly nation. Don't take our superior position in the world today for granted folks. We're always just a few misteps away from a world war. |
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