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]
The chair is against the wall. The chair is against the wall.
Heh, similar to the Rick Schroeder character in the lousy “Andromeda Strain” TV remake.
It’s 11:59 on Radio Free America; this is Uncle Sam, with music, and the truth until dawn. Right now I’ve got a few words for some of our brothers and sisters in the occupied zone: “the chair is against the wall, the chair is against the wall”, “john has a long mustache, john has a long mustache”. It’s twelve o’clock America, another day closer to victory. And for all of you out there, on, or behind the line, this is your song.
......National Anthem plays......
I’m pissed off. You’re pissed off and clever. Why don’t you do my talking for me. (;>)
I’m going to go on the record now and expect this new movie to be a big stinker. It will probably be some corporate conglomerate selling weapons to a militia of white men who attempt to overthrow the government and oppress minorities, woman and children with a fundamentalist view. Some charismatic black and latino gang members(with the help of “mujahadeen”) will rise up and defeat the evil white men and their tanks and planes.
Go to the head of the re-education class.
You are almost ready to graduate, comrade.
ROTFLMAO! YOU NAILED IT!
The real Americans out there will “get it!”
Semper Fidelis
Dick
*****
The suspense is killin me.
LOL!
This new Red Dawn is going to stink.
teenagers who form an impromptu insurgencyIntresting wording there. How can the Wolverines be "insurgents"? They were already living there! Dumb writers :-|
LMAO!! That was great!
In fact, the second paragraph sounds a lot like the plot of last season's 24 :)
It may kill many of us before this is over..
I’d rather see an original make of Enemies Foreign and Domestic.
I think that’s how the rewrite is making Jed- a Marine on leave. I’d love it if one of the original cast members made a cameo, maybe as the boys’ father. If Patrick Swayze is still around (I hope so!) maybe he can take the role.
I missed that. The writer probably doesn't even know what the word means.
>>If I had my way in the remake, it would involve
>>the elected fascists attempting a final crackdown
>>on the populace...
Welcome to Amerika.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=amerika+kris+kristofferson&aq=3&oq=Amerika+K&aqi=g10
I can always count on you to point out the most important news of the day:)
Happy belated b-day. I was out of the country and unable to freep at the time.
Except this time it will be the Chinese that invade ... hurray.
I thought the movie “Defiance” was a remake of Red Dawn.
Watch the original Red Dawn ;) .... When the cuban zompolit is busy lecturing Ernesto (Cuban Colonol) outside of the Friendship Center in Occupied America.
I really enjoy the original. It is one I saught out on DVD. It is very entertaining, at least for me.
I didn’t like the deer blood part though...
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