Yeah, they even got Superfly himself (Ron O'Neal) to play the head Cuban. Written and directed by John Milius, who wrote the screenplays to Apocalypse Now and Conan the Republican, er, Barbarian.
I laughed at Red Dawn when I first heard the concept, and especially a publicity photo showing the steel-eyed Reds with fatigues and guns in front of a McDonald's, but in retrospect, what are we to believe the USA would look like if Stalinists succeeded in occupying sections of the country?
Milius also was a collaborator with Robert (Forrest Gump, Cast Away, Back to The Future) Zemeckis and Bob Gale in the screenplays for the critically panned Spielberg epic 1941 (which I have never seen -- it's over 2.5 hours long) and the vastly underrated Used Cars. He spent most of the nineties under the radar, but it seems that halfway through the zeroes, he's back in the saddle, with several projects in the hopper, and I'm glad to see it. Lionel Chetwynd can't bear the burden alone.