Posted on 07/11/2008 6:40:41 AM PDT by tlb
Hot-on-the-heels of news that Darren Aronofsky may be directing MGM's Robocop reboot, the studio has announced plans to remake another '80s feature in the shape of Red Dawn.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Red Eye scribe Carl Ellsworth will pen the script, which will update the story to modern day.
"The tone is going to be very intense, very much keeping in mind the post-9/11 world that we're in," explains Ellsworth.
"As Red Dawn scared the heck out of people in 1984, we feel that the world is kind of already filled with a lot of paranoia and unease, so why not scare the hell out of people again?"
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I, for one, welcome our alien overlords...
Does not fit, in my case either bad meaning.
It was basically a remake of "Rear Window", but with teenagers.
This thread has taken an odd turn since I last checked in.
Keep in mind that the “Above Top Secret” site is a whackaloon conspiracy clearinghouse that makes Art Bell look like a paragon of normalcy and sanity.
I have 360 degree ‘eyes.’
Have had since 1965.
Well, the title is “Red Dawn” - you know, “Red” - so I don’t see how they can get away from that. See my previous post. They’ll use the “Red” angle, probably the Chinese, but they’ll make sure that it’s really a “conspiracy within a conspiracy” and that the “real” villain is some Cheney-esque “white guy” who wants to dominate the United States oil market or something equally ridiculous. Trust me, this will be a complete left-wing hack job.
“Nor, evidently, have you talked to Marine trainers who’ve questioned our military personnel about whether they would be willing to shoot their own relatives on command in this country.”
No, but I’ve read about the questionnaire that was supposedly given to the military several years ago on that very question. I also didn’t know about the KGB personnel being trained by our military. I do know about the two ex-KGB generals that were hired by Homeland Security several years ago, one of them being anex-STASI General named Wolfe.
You mean President-select (by the DBM) Obama?
“Don’t forget the token black guy as the hero.”
“You mean President-select (by the DBM) Obama?”
Ha, hadn’t even thought of him. Of course, then it would have to be “the token black/white guy as the hero.”
Hey, In my world, Revenge of the Nerds was a documentary.
Easy enough. The red states will invade the blue states...
I thought Red Dawn was a good movie. I was thinking about it for 3 days afterwards. Not many movies do that.
True, “Red” does sort of require a red angle. It occurs to me that Republican states are colored red these days. Maybe they’ll go after that angle.
You beat me to it!
The bad guy is a bad guy. He’s a serial killer. He gets women drunk and kills them. There are very few adults in the movie for any length of time, except for the killer and Shia’s mom. The kids are pretty typical teenagers (but I thought the girl was uber annoying) and the whole movie is generally a typical teen movie. It’s not horrible, but I was glad I didn’t spend $8.50 to see it either. If you have HBO, it’s on this month.
IMO, someone would have to be looking extremely hard at that movie to see it as making a mockery of morality.
That’s good to know. I’m always on the lookout for at least marginal movies to watch. I may rent it for $1.
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