"Satan's not in these books! He's in here! Go on home. All of you go on home."
I've seen it a few (thousand) times.
Chase Crawford and Julianne Hough are supposed to play Ren and Ariel. He looks a little like 1984 Kevin Bacon in this picture.
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]
"Satan's not in these books! He's in here! Go on home. All of you go on home."
I've seen it a few (thousand) times.
Chase Crawford and Julianne Hough are supposed to play Ren and Ariel. He looks a little like 1984 Kevin Bacon in this picture.
The remake takes place in Hawaii. A group of patriots calling themselves “Freepers From Hell” parashoot in and take over the hall of records in search of the mysterious birth certificate and are met with a para-military force called ACORN and and bloody and horrific firefight ensues. Sycthian give this movie two thumbs up and the shocking ending makes it worth it all ...
It was Cubans and Russians. The Chinese were on our side.
He looks like an effete, urban, flaming faggot. She looks like a prissy airhead with no skills beyond applying make-up and giving BJ.
Who’s going to believe the Russians would invade, or that Muslim terrorists could actually have enough paratroopers and airplanes, to be able to invade?
I just closed my eyes and thought of all the politically correct crap that passes for entertainment on almost every TV station, including CMT and the Food Network.
Same goes with making movies out of tv shows.
Sadly, I believe you’re probably right on.
What is Spanish for “Wolverines”? Or Ebonics?
I wonder how many of these invaders will have a “cap buss-ed in they asses”...
“wolverines, bi-atch”...
Just past the opening credits..
!Glotones!
Hey, it could be escapist fantasy by the time it hits the box office.
JOHN HAS A LONG MUSTACHE...JOHN HAS A LONG MUSTACHE...
It will be Red State Dawn... and the Red States will be the bad guys
You know, we used to be the “blue” states, and the Democrats the “red” states (rightly so)...
Ping.
With the Russians and Chinese as allies in this movie, it won’t be possible to re-enact my favorite scene from the 1984 version. In that scene, one of the wolverine kids asks the Air Force Colonel (played by Powers Boothe) who were left as America’s remaining allies in the war. He says that the only people left who were helping us were the British and “six hundred million screamin’ mad Chinamen.”
The Kid: “I thought there were over a billion Chinese.”
The Colonel: “Yeah. There were.”
A remake of 1984 remade as 2084 would be better..
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