"In a further move, the studio announced they will be using puppets and animation so as not to offend actual North Koreans..."
Posted on 03/20/2011 6:46:49 PM PDT by Niuhuru
"Hollywood remake of Red Dawn spends $1m to change villains from Chinese to North Koreans... so as not to offend Beijing"
Hollywood film-makers have changed the villains in a re-make of the film Red Dawn to avoid offending China and spoiling its chances of success at the box office.
The original action film starring Patrick Swayze and Charlie Sheen featured Russian troops invading America.
In the remake Chinese troops lead the invasion - but bosses at MGM studio are to spend more than $1 million on digital special effects to make it appear the invaders are from North Korea.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
...or was.
The Hollywood idiots will massacre this.
The North Korean INVADE America.
What a laugh!
NK’s? Really? Cubans were more believable.
I still don’t get why China would be offended by this.
I’m surprised they’re not dubbing in a soundtrack so that the invaders are heard speaking in the Austrian language.
"In a further move, the studio announced they will be using puppets and animation so as not to offend actual North Koreans..."
Stay away from Muslims, of course.
They should use islamomaniacs....oh...wait...it’s a movie...not a documentary...
I thought that the Chinese were on our side in that movie.
Good call MGM... Your spinelessness just saved me $10 and a couple of hours.
Thanks Niuhuru.
Not only that - old. The beauty of the original is that they were high schoolers.
The author of this article isn’t any too bright... the original Red Dawn movie featured in invading SOVIET army... Not Red Chinese.
“Good call MGM... Your spinelessness just saved me $10 and a couple of hours.”
They could have saved the million and millions more promoting it, by just throwing it into the trash. This movie will wind up was as many viewers as there are train riders in Los Angeles.
I was going to see it but if they are going to PC it to death then they don’t need my money and I don’t see a need to support their stupidity.
I’ll stick to the original. Great job there MGM. If stupidity were painful, you guys would be in coma’s from the sheer agony.
I’m a frequent movie-goer but I think I’ll pass on this one.
I don’t know the particular intelligence of the author, but the article states:
“The original action film starring Patrick Swayze and Charlie Sheen featured Russian troops invading America. “
Can’t use the Mexicans because they have alredy invaded.
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