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[JayFarrar]

FROM THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER) – Writer Carl Ellsworth (Y: The Last Man,
Red Eye) has been tapped to pen MGM's remake of the 1984 adventure drama Red Dawn, and Dan Bradley, a second unit director and/or stunt coordinator on The Bourne Ultimatum, Spider-Man 3, and the upcoming Quantum of Solace, will direct the update.
The original movie, which starred Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen, and C. Thomas Howell, was about a group of Colorado high school kids who take refuge in the mountains and launch an insurgency after a World War III invasion of America by the Soviets and Cubans.
Similar to the way the original played off Cold War fears in the 1980s, Ellsworth says the remake will play off of current fears related to post-9/11 terrorism. ''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?'' Ellsworth told THR.
Red Dawn was the first movie released with the PG-13 rating because of its intense subject matter and violent content. At the time, the National Coalition on Television Violence condemned the film as the most violent movie ever made, saying it averaged 134 acts of violence an hour, or 2.23 a minute.

Best. News. Ever.
And for what it is worth, Ellsworth is a helluva writer. Y: The Last Man is most excellent.

 

[D-Backs Hack]

WOLVERINES!

 

[Ace]

If Powers Booth ain't in it, I ain't watching.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

How the hell will they remake Red Dawn with terrorism at the core? You've got to have the WOLVERINES! fighting off the occupying forces.

 

[Batman]

How the hell will they remake Red Dawn with terrorism at the core? You've got to have the WOLVERINES! fighting off the occupying forces.

Guess they'll have them beating the hell out of muslims and blowing up a mosque or two.
And then getting arrested for committing hate crimes.
This is gonna suck.

 

[JayFarrar]

WOLVERINES!

The defining quote of my generation: "WOLVERINES!"

I wish it wasn't being updated. I think it should be set back in the mid-80s.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

How the hell will they remake Red Dawn with terrorism at the core? You've got to have the WOLVERINES! fighting off the occupying forces.

Guess they'll have them beating the hell out of muslims and blowing up a mosque or two.
And then getting arrested for committing hate crimes.
This is gonna suck.

If you're redoing it in this day and age, you've got to make the invading force Chinese. It's the only nation with enough soldiers to put an occupying force on the ground here.

 

[Ace]

How the hell will they remake Red Dawn with terrorism at the core? You've got to have the WOLVERINES! fighting off the occupying forces.

Guess they'll have them beating the hell out of muslims and blowing up a mosque or two.
And then getting arrested for committing hate crimes.
This is gonna suck.

If you're redoing it in this day and age, you've got to make the invading force Chinese. It's the only nation with enough soldiers to put an occupying force on the ground here.

Maybe the high school kids can be sons of oil company executives and army contractors attending school in Iraq. It'll be great!

 

[JayFarrar]

I'll just add, before I get working on my script for the Red Dawn remake, Ellsworth knows what he is doing.
Y has been a great to read and I think he probably has an idea or four to make Red Dawn work.

 

[kokane_muthashed]

I'll just add, before I get working on my script for the Red Dawn remake, Ellsworth knows what he is doing.
Y has been a great to read and I think he probably has an idea or four to make Red Dawn work.

Ellsworth is just doing the screenplay for Y, I believe. Series creator Brian K. Vaughan is the writer for Y: The Last Man comic book. And, yes, the book is most excellent. I'm about halfway through the series. Need to pick of the rest of the TPBs and finish it out.

 

[Armchair_QB]

How the hell will they remake Red Dawn with terrorism at the core? You've got to have the WOLVERINES! fighting off the occupying forces.

Guess they'll have them beating the hell out of muslims and blowing up a mosque or two.
And then getting arrested for committing hate crimes.
This is gonna suck.

If you're redoing it in this day and age, you've got to make the invading force Chinese. It's the only nation with enough soldiers to put an occupying force on the ground here.

If I remember correctly the opening montage of the original focused on the spread of communism and the fact Mexico had become a communist country, which is where the attackers flew from when they invaded.

They could go the China route or they could change "spread of communism" to "spread of radical Islam" and turn Mexico into an Islamic state and go from there.

Personally I agree with setting it in the mid-80s like the original and make it a good old fashioned USA vs. The Godless Commies pic.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

How the hell will they remake Red Dawn with terrorism at the core? You've got to have the WOLVERINES! fighting off the occupying forces.

Guess they'll have them beating the hell out of muslims and blowing up a mosque or two.
And then getting arrested for committing hate crimes.
This is gonna suck.

If you're redoing it in this day and age, you've got to make the invading force Chinese. It's the only nation with enough soldiers to put an occupying force on the ground here.

If I remember correctly the opening montage of the original focused on the spread of communism and the fact Mexico had become a communist country, which is where the attackers flew from when they invaded.

They could go the China route or they could change "spread of communism" to "spread of radical Islam" and turn Mexico into an Islamic state and go from there.

Personally I agree with setting it in the mid-80s like the original and make it a good old fashioned USA vs. The Godless Commies pic.

You can never really go wrong with USA vs. Godless Commies.

 

[jps]

But will I be able to get it on VHS to pair with my original?

 

[D-Backs Hack]

Time out for trivia:

Red Dawn was the first movie released with a PG-13 rating.

 

[Killick]

Can it truly be called trivia when that info is in the story posted to begin the thread?

Also, am I experiencing déjà vu, or is this whole thread a db?

 

[Beaker]

Can it truly be called trivia when that info is in the story posted to begin the thread?

Also, am I experiencing déjà vu, or is this whole thread a db?

The remake wasn't set in stone then, but here it is Killick:

http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/56462/

 

[jps]

Time out for trivia:

Red Dawn was the first movie released with a PG-13 rating.

yeah ... thanks for the news flash

 

[Birdscribe]

If Lea Thompson ain't in it, I ain't watching.

Fixed that for you, Ace. ;D

 

[DanOregon]

I really don't see how you make terrorists work as the evil force. The point of terrorism is to use fear for political gain.

If it's just a simple contained hostage scenario we'll get another Toy Soldiers. Terrorists expect to die, so killing them isn't a big thing. A better scenario would involve a Jericho type of plot where "the government" is doing something very bad to their hometown, perhaps in response to terrorism, and the Wolverines do a little pay back.

 

[BYH]

This will redefine the suck.