Hollywood remake of Red Dawn spends $1m to change villains from Chinese to North Koreans

Daily Mail ^ | Last updated at 10:23 PM on 20th March 2011 | By Paul Thompson

[DesertRhino]

China is plausible, but a pipsqueak economy like North Korea taking over here is retarded. And by bending to the sensibilities of China,,they prove the original concept is the true menace.

[Red6]

Do they have a funny but nice gay guy? And surely they will address the dangers of global warming in this new movie too?

Sick....... Just leave it alone and don't cheapen it as with the “Poseidon Adventure” remake....... The only decent remake I've seem of late is “True Grit.”

[xjcsa]

The author of this article isn’t any too bright... the original Red Dawn movie featured in invading SOVIET army... Not Red Chinese.

I think it's the reader: "The original action film starring Patrick Swayze and Charlie Sheen featured Russian troops invading America. "

[Mr. Jeeves]

Should have been Muslim nuclear terrorists coming across the border from Mexico aided by drug cartel and Latin American Communist military forces. Neither China nor North Korea poses any realistic threat of land invasion to the USA - but the land invasion that is actually happening gets ignored.

[Rufii]

I hope the movie is a comedy. That’s the only way a film about North Korea invading the US would succeed.

[wetgundog]

Remake of movie should have targeted a Muslim invasion,
which in reality is going to happen.

Better yet, should have left well enough alone with the original, which this piece of crap will not reprise.

Hot Young Jennifer Grey

WOLVERINES!!!

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Here’s some old news...

[BushCountry]

Actually, the filming was completed for this remake movie. The Red Chinese were the villains and it was set to be released last year (December I think). Chinese officials started making some noise. Boom! North Koreans are now the villains.

[Jack Hammer]

Don’t want them to cash in their T-bills at the moment; it could embarrass that immortal Hollywood hero, Obama al-Hussein.

[Eternal_Bear]

Maybe make it North Koreans and Libyans? lol

[MinorityRepublican]

I don’t think the Chinese really care. If anything, they’ll just ban the movie from going into the country. Big deal. They’ve already banned Google and Facebook. So what?

[Blood of Tyrants]

It doesn’t even make sense anymore. The total population of NK and their military is outdated.

[vbmoneyspender]

Hollywood has gone off the deep end. In the new Liam Neeson flick, Unknown, the bad guys are, of course, American businessmen and one of the good guys turns out to be (get ready for this) a Saudi prince who is using his oil wealth to benefit mankind.

[roadcat]

Stupid author. I also remember Red Dawn Americans saying “who’s on our side?”, followed by “a hundred million Chinese”, then “aren’t there a billion Chinese?”, and finally “there were...”. The Chines were our friends in the battle against the Russians and Cubans.

[SC Swamp Fox]

Good call MGM... Your spinelessness just saved me $10 and a couple of hours.

Exactly.

[JSteff]

Uhm, the bad guys in the original were CUBANS AND RUSSIANS

Fools.

[Flatus I. Maximus]

I'm only surprised they didn't make the villains Tea Partisans and right-wing militia crazies.

Honestly, when I heard they were remaking this one, I really expected the story to be one of a beneficent communist invasion come here to rescue American from President Palin.

[Stonewall Jackson]

This movie will soon be available in Wal-Mart's $5 bin, alongside such classics as Mutant Ants and The Hunt.

[SecondAmendment]

> I still don’t get why China would be offended by this.

You were being sarcastic, right ?

Just in case you weren't, its because they [the ChiComms] will lose at the end of the movie.

The studio would have been better off having the ChiComms win, then at least they would be guaranteed an Oscar(TM) for best picture, a Nobel Peace Prize for the director, and Presidential Medal of Freedom for the producers.

[Incorrigible]

Col. Andy Tanner: Six hundred million screaming Chinamen.
Darryl Bates: Last I heard, there were a billion screaming Chinamen.
Col. Andy Tanner: There *were*.