I don't think its being given a writer talented enough, and a producer good enough to make it not suck.
Want To Bet They Screw It Up?
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr...1c07ce0eb?imw=Y
'Red Dawn' redo lands director, scribe
"Red Dawn" will be redone.
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?"
Ellsworth will be working from a story written by Jeremy Passmore. Vincent Newman ("A Man Apart") is also acting in a producer capacity.
The original "Dawn" was the Cold War brainchild of writer-director John Milius, who devised a World War III invasion of America by the Soviets and Cubans. The film followed the scrappy insurgency of a group of Midwestern teenagers who take on their high school mascot name -- "Wolverines!" -- as a rallying cry of resistance.
The 1984 action drama was the first film released in theaters with the newly devised PG-13 rating because of its intense subject matter and violent content.
Ellsworth, who is repped by ICM and the Shuman Co., most recently handed in an adaptation of Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra's comics series "Y: The Last Man" to New Line. He also wrote "Red Eye," co-wrote "Disturbia" and rewrote the screenplay for the "Last House on the Left" remake, produced by the original film's writer-director, Wes Craven. Rogue Pictures will release it early next year.
Bradley also is repped by ICM.
'Red Dawn' redo lands director, scribe
"Red Dawn" will be redone.
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?"
Ellsworth will be working from a story written by Jeremy Passmore. Vincent Newman ("A Man Apart") is also acting in a producer capacity.
The original "Dawn" was the Cold War brainchild of writer-director John Milius, who devised a World War III invasion of America by the Soviets and Cubans. The film followed the scrappy insurgency of a group of Midwestern teenagers who take on their high school mascot name -- "Wolverines!" -- as a rallying cry of resistance.
The 1984 action drama was the first film released in theaters with the newly devised PG-13 rating because of its intense subject matter and violent content.
Ellsworth, who is repped by ICM and the Shuman Co., most recently handed in an adaptation of Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra's comics series "Y: The Last Man" to New Line. He also wrote "Red Eye," co-wrote "Disturbia" and rewrote the screenplay for the "Last House on the Left" remake, produced by the original film's writer-director, Wes Craven. Rogue Pictures will release it early next year.
Bradley also is repped by ICM.
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I bet it will be made "politically correct", which meens it will suck..
Swami predict: they will end up doing it like "Cloverfield" with hand-held camera shots.
THAT would be a BLAST! :twisted:
THAT would be a BLAST! :twisted:
would that not rock if they let joss whedon direct it? otherwise yeah, standard hollywood pap.
unless its the UN invading us. the story won't be plausible.
I would like to see that happen!!mrmoshzilla said:would that not rock if they let joss whedon direct it? otherwise yeah, standard hollywood pap.
BUT
it will proably end up being more about their emotions and the enviroment.
UN getting their asses kicked trying to take guns... that might work!
The only other suitable option is the Russians and whoever they bring along. Otherwise it's shit.
The only other suitable option is the Russians and whoever they bring along. Otherwise it's shit.
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (The series, not the movie.) Licked balls... But "Firefly" Kinda' ruled.... I'm torn. 
Maybe the Chinese this time ?
It will suck. That said, I will go see it anyway. Just have to.
Peter Jackson should direct it all Lord of the Rings style.
What it should be about is the story of the frontlines of the war, not about a group of rebels.
What I care about most is if they get the weapons right, or at least see their take on it.
They also used the same theme when sierra made the computer game World in Conflict; one of the best RTS games around. Search it on google.
What it should be about is the story of the frontlines of the war, not about a group of rebels.
What I care about most is if they get the weapons right, or at least see their take on it.
They also used the same theme when sierra made the computer game World in Conflict; one of the best RTS games around. Search it on google.
I haven't seen a good or halfway realistic war movie since Saving Private Ryan. I'm sure it will suck.
With logic like that, the movie is doomed to failure. The reason, the news media has already cornered the market on paranoia and unease. In other words "Nothing to see here, move along..."Karl/Pa. said:"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?"
Maybe they should just film it in Washington D.C. and pit the gun owners against against the gun grabbers? Sort of a post-D.C. vs. Heller world. Just a thought. :neutral:
Yeah the producers will probably wimp out and make it more politically correct,no matter how edgy they claim it will be.
Yeah the producers will probably wimp out and make it more politically correct,no matter how edgy they claim it will be.
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