Plot Details From Red Dawn Reboot
Red Dawn (Remake 2010) Movie — By Nix on April 15, 2009
Wolverine!!! Come on, who didn’t leave the theaters screaming the famous line from John Milius’s 1984 movie “Red Dawn”? Okay, not all of us. I was too young to have seen the movie in theaters and saw the film only later on DVD. Er, I mean, VHS. You remember them, right? Those box-looking rectangle thingies with, you know, film and junk? Anyways, they’re rebooting “Red Dawn” for a new generation. So what can we expect?
Latino Review has gotten their hands on the script by Carl Ellsworth (”Red Eye”). You can watch the full script review for yourself, and I would encourage it. Those guys put up some nice production values in their videos, and it definitely needs to be seen. But for the lazy among you, here are the important highlights:
- Former second unit director Dan Bradley (”The Bourne Ultimatum”, “Quantum of Solace”) is expected to make his directorial debut with the movie. He’s apparently going to be using the same handheld style on the reboot.
- The bad guys/invaders will now be the Red Chinese, who knocks off America in the first 20 pages, and gets help from those stinkin’ Russians later in the movie. The cause of the invasion? Oil, of course. There are hints that America is kinda to blame, too. In today’s PC environment, that’s not too much of a surprise.
- Our heroes: Jed is now a former Marine back from Iraq and Matt his high school star quarterback brother; Erica is now an Asian-American cheerleader; and Danny is the African-American star running back. Basically, all the original characters will return (including keeping the same names) but as different archetypes.
- The reboot will be very action-oriented. The original was rated PG-13, but it sounds like the reboot might go the R-rated route.
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This is terrible. the original is so good and now its just gonna be another forgettable standard shakey camera action movie just like Bourne Ultimatum. If he really films this in the same style than i can guarantee the movie will suck. Why cant they come up with original ideas instead of bastardizing old good ones.
Wolverine? Clean out your ears.
“Those box-looking rectangle thingies with, you know, film and junk?”
I stopped reading after this sentence. The author has no attention to detail.
“Red Dawn” is actually one of the few great war movies that has been made in the last 30 years. This remake will be a pile of steaming crap.
I agree, and noticed the same thing. I think the author watched the original while cooking dinner and doing laundry.
The author was making a joke. You apparently have no sense of humor. But I see that it didn’t prevent you from commenting anyway, despite the fact that you “stopped reading after this sentence”. So basically you have just commented on an article that you didn’t completely read. And yet you claim the author “has no attention to detail”. You mean the kind of “attention to detail” that requires you to read an entire article before commenting on it? That kind of attention to detail? P.S. Please get a sense of humor.
Remakes usually suck. The only decent ones were remakes of The Thing 1981 10 times better than the 50s version as was the 70s remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
Yes indeed – more blame America first crap from Hollyweird. They totally ruined a great series JERICHO on CBS after turning into a left wing crapfest in Season 2 – to the suprise of few ratings tanked and it was axed for good – where US troops sided with some Senator who declared himself President who was supposed to be Bush and bald guy resembling Dick Cheney who worked with an evil company resembling Haliburton and military contractors (all portrayed as sadistic goons) resembling Blackwater USA. All this set in Kansas that was made to resemble occupied Iraq complete with its own version of Gitmo/Abu Ghraib on a pig farm.
Hopefully this project will be axed – I wont pay to see it.
What the fuck does “pc” have to do with anything? Politically situations are complicated. The only people who buy into “commies bad, America good!” are cro-magnons.
Glad they didn’t puss out and have a fictional enemy. China is not on our side this time! Shocker! Hopefully maybe the Euro-wimps will be! A Sino-Russian Alliance is very plausible, with the Shanghi-Six Pact!
WHY?
The original is perfect the way it is?
I am ok with the Chinese/Russian element but not the Asian/Black part. This is set in the middle of the mountains of Colorado. I doubt the group there in the country would be that diverse and I see no reason why it should be. Plus, Josh Peck? Come on. A Nick kids actor at a high school QB star. Terrible!
They’re gonna ruin it because the whole point was to show America’s will power and honor to their country, and nwo they’re chanign teh characters by making Jed a marine? I don’t think it’s a good idea because Jed is supposed to be a teenager, struggling just like rest of them, and even though he is the oldest, he shows that he’s still innocent throughout the moive because he has a hard time killing people, I mean, if they make him a marine…well he wont be the same character.
Oy, as if the original 80’s cheesefest wasn’t bad enough?
I laughed long and hard at that movie back in the 80’s. The notion that the Soviet’s could support 60 mechanized divisions in daily combat across Siberia, the Bering Strait and Canada was one of the least egregious howlers from that piece of dreck.
Now they want us to buy the premise that China would destroy their own economy by invading the US, the biggest recipient of Chinese exports? It’d be hilarious, if it wasn’t so sad.
Granted, there will be a few folks who can’t see past the reality-ignoring blind jingoism of either film and consider them great. Each to their own.
NO!!! Leave the classics alone!
Is Hollyweird running out of ideas?
It certainly would make more sense to make a movie about how the American people rebelled against our own liberal, no…socialist, no…communist leadership because they continually stole our freedoms. The catalyst would be when they ban guns from the people.
Too close to reality? Probably, but I bet it will be better than this new red dawn wannabe movie.