Continuing on the ever going trend, that does not appear to be dying anytime soon, of remakes in Hollywood comes to bigger chunk of casting for Red Dawn. Despite the grumblings that will most likely be made right now due to casting for this film period, let me tell you who’s jumping onto the film. Josh Hutcherson, Isabel Lucas, Connor Cruise and Edwin Hodge are all throwing themselves on board with Chris Hemsworth, Adrianne Palicki and Josh Peck in the Dan Bradley directed version of this 1984 film.
Set to start up initial filming next month, the cast is believed to undergo a military training program prior to it. The film is about a group of teenagers who form an insurgency when their town is invaded — this time by Chinese and Russian soldiers (THR). The script is penned up by Carl Ellsworth (The Last House on the Left) and John Milius (Rome). The Red Dawn remake is set for a September 24, 2010 release date. Keep yourselves on here for the latest on Red Dawn and many other movies!
I must admit I have never seen the original. If I had time to watch it I would. I have had Watchmen for over 3 weeks now and have yet to get it out of the blu-ray
The thought of remaking such films as “Red Dawn”, “Dirty Dancing” and “Footloose” is down right sickening.
At the time, the politics behind “Red Dawn” were very real. As a child of the 70s and teenager of the 80s, the thought of the Soviets blowing us all to Kingdom come, was very palpable. We grew up in a world that had us feeling that the Communist were a very real threat and a threat to our capitalist life style.
Please do not remake these movies. It would be absolutely ridiculous to do so while the stars of those movies are still alive. Remaking a movie after the stars of that movie have died is one thing, but to remake it while it is still being shown on TV or on DVD is a tragedy.