Red Dawn Remake Planned

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Red Dawn was just one of those movies that you always remember. It had a bunch of stars that you might know better today. Patrick Swayze (above right), C. Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson, Charlie Sheen (above left), Jennifer Grey, Harry Dean Stanton, and Powers Boothe. The whole story revolved around a Russian invasion of the USA and some civilian kids that ended up fighting back using guerrilla tactics.

Needless to say, I found this pretty exciting news:

Screenwriter Carl Ellsworth has been hired to recraft the ultimate homeland invasion story about a new generation of besieged high schoolers.

Dan Bradley, a second unit director and/or stunt coordinator on “The Bourne Ultimatum,” “Spider-Man 3″ and the forthcoming “Quantum of Solace,” will move into the director’s chair for the update. Contrafilm’s Beau Flynn and Tripp Vinson will produce.

MGM toppers Harry Sloan and Mary Parent announced the remake — along with a big-budget rebuild of “RoboCop,” which director Darren Aronofsky among others has recently been in to discuss — in May at the Festival de Cannes. As the studio regroups, its executives have realized that the strong MGM library has numerous classic and cult properties it can exploit for a new audience.

“The tone is going to be very intense, very much keeping in mind the post-9/11 world that we’re in,” says Ellsworth, who was 11 when the original was released. “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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If you’re struggling to remember anything about the original or you’ve never seen it, then take the jump and have a look at the original movie trailer. I’m going to have to get that one off the DVD shelf (yes, I own it) and watch it again just for fun.

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