Red Dawn Remake

[Sol Invictus]

Beyond Hollywood
NIX
August 10, 2009

Four more Wolverines!!!! Ahem. News from THR is that four more actors have joined the upcoming remake of John Milius’ 1984 tale of homeland invasion “Red Dawn”. Of the four names, I’m only familiar with one of them: Isabel Lucas (below), who was in this year’s mega hit “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen”. Remember her? The girl with the smoldering eyes who attempted to seduce Sam Witwicky, but turned out to be a killer ‘bot? That’s her.

The other three names are Josh Hutcherson, Connor Cruise and Edwin Hodge. They join a cast that already includes leads Chris Hemsworth as a returning Iraq War Marine who gets into the thick of the action, Josh Peck as his star athlete little brother, and Adrianne Palicki as the love interest.

Hutcherson will play Robert (the C. Thomas Howell role), the group’s tech geek, while Lucas will be Erica (the Lea Thompson role), the high school head cheerleader and girlfriend of Peck’s character, who is locked up in an internment camp after the invasion. Cruise is Daryl, the son of the town mayor and Robert’s best friend, while Hodge will play Danny, described as “the coolest kid in school” and star wide receiver who helps establish the resistance against the invaders — the Chinese and Russians this time around.

Former “Bourne” guys Dan Bradley will direct from a script by Jeremy Passmore and Carl Ellsworth. The actors are currently all being shipped away to Hollywood military boot camp, and filming is expected to start next month for a September 24, 2010 release.

[Æmeric]

Just who is invading in the remake? The Soviet Union is dead. I thought the red in the title of Red Dawn was partially a play on commies (reds). 1984 was a different world.

Edit: I didn't read carefully enough. The Chinese & Russians. Still the commies I guess.

The first movie was stupid. A surprise invasion & they parachute into Colorado to take the high school in some small hick town.. Where was NORAD?

A more realistic movie would be about a civil war in the not too distance future America.

[Germanicus]

Just who is invading in the remake? The Soviet Union is dead. I thought the red in the title of Red Dawn was partially a play on commies (reds). 1984 was a different world.

Edit: I didn't read carefully enough. The Chinese & Russians. Still the commies I guess.

The first movie was stupid. A surprise invasion & they parachute into Colorado to take the high school in some small hick town.. Where was NORAD?

A more realistic movie would be about a civil war in the not too distance future America.

The film "Red Dawn" reminds me in a way of the the books i read in the 1980s "The Survivalist" by Jerry Ahern.