Posted on 06/18/2009 10:52:01 AM PDT by B-Chan
On the heels of yesterday's casting announcements, Latinoreview has exclusively learned that Tony Gilroy, the oscar nominated writer/director of Michael Clayton (and one of my top five favorite all time screenwriters) has come aboard to rewrite MGM/UA's remake of RED DAWN!
Not surprising considering that Dan Bradley, the director of the remake, was the 2nd unit director of the Jason Bourne films which Gilroy penned.
Gilroy has recently delivered a 107 page draft dated 06-01-09. The remake was penned by Carl Ellsworth and Jeremy Passmore and based on the 1984 Cold War-era film co-written and directed by John Milius. We took a look at the Ellsworth/Passmore draft which you can watch HERE.
The story is about a group of teenagers who form an impromptu insurgency when their town is invaded by Chinese and Russian soldiers. [Source]
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Two cast in 'Red Dawn' remake
The Wolverines are gathering.
Josh Peck and Adrianne Palicki have been cast in MGM/UA's remake of "Red Dawn," set to begin filming in September. They join the already cast Chris Hemsworth in the story of a group of teenagers who form an impromptu insurgency when their town is invaded by Chinese and Russian soldiers.
Peck will play Matt Eckert -- the role originated by Charlie Sheen -- the hotheaded younger brother of Hemsworth's Jed Eckert and star quarterback of their Spokane high school football team. Palicki will play Toni, the role first inhabited by Jennifer Grey. She's a tough fighter the brothers encounter who develops romantic feelings for Jed, a Marine home on leave and the group's unofficial leader.
Dan Bradley, a stunt coordinator and second-unit director on "The Bourne Ultimatum" and "Quantum of Solace," will direct the revamp based on the 1984 Cold War-era film co-written and directed by John Milius. Carl Ellsworth and Jeremy Passmore penned the updated screenplay.
Contrafilm's Beau Flynn and Tripp Vinson are producing, and Vince Newman is executive producing. The film is scheduled to hit theaters Sept. 24, 2010. [Source]
Wolverines!
We had our Red Dawn here - November 7, 2008
I don’t have high hopes for this movie.
I guess I missed the idea for the remake- the original was bad enough, but a remake?
Oh well, can a pre-quel be far behind?
If I had my way in the remake,
it would involve the elected fascists attempting a final crackdown on the populace,
and [initially] isolated groups performing “wolverine style” guerilla warfare on them.
IMO< the premise needs to be altered to reflect the attack from within. To hell with the Russian and Chinese boogie men angle. We might not last until that eventuality, at the rate we’re going.
Today the red threat sits in the White House and Congress.
And I’ll bet the first movie - like all firsts - will be better than the remake.
No wolverines here in TX, but we have badgers.
They are very fierce like some Texans, but unfriendly unlike most Texans.
If you are smart you will not try to twist a badger out of it’s hole. It is almost impossible to do, but if you manage to get him out of the hole you will wish you had not.
This was just on TV last night.
A bit of trivia: the original was filmed in Las Vegas, New Mexico.
Red Dawn was a kind of a re-imagining of what the "nuclear" conflict with the Soviets would look like. Plus, it didn't shy away from painting the Soviets as blood thirsty, unapologetic killers. Hardly the stuff of modern day anti-American flicks. One of the primary antagonists was a Cuban national. How's that going to work with the leftist, Hollywierdos infatuation with Che and Fidel?
Who's going to be the villain now. Are we going to be invaded by Exxon or "Big Pharma"?
Or, my prediction, is that this new "Marine on leave" will have some kind of revelation about how cruel he was to people in Iraq and that America "had it coming". Kind of a Red Dawn meets Apocalypse Now meets Deer Hunter, or the like.
That version will be playing in the streets, not the movies.
I look forward to it!
"Badgers? we don' need no steekin' badgers!"
(I've been waiting a long time to use that line..... ;-))
i suspect the truth wont be far off from your wish
Instead of Russian and Chinese soldiers, make it believable - Obamas ACORN/brownshirt brigade on one side and the monkeywrenchers on the other.
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