MR

Posted: **Fri Jul 11, 2008 12:06 am**

Red Dawn is one of my favorite films of all time, and I believe the first movie I ever saw multiple times in a theater (3 times over opening weekend -- my friends and I were PUMPED about it!).

They are redoing it and updating it!

http://movies.ign.com/articles/887/887348p1.html

I just love this line...

"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?"

Sure! Hey, as long as we have enough fools in the world that live in fear of their shadows, why not get some sport out of it? HAHA!!!

Posted: **Fri Jul 11, 2008 12:09 am**

WOLVERINES!

Sorry MichiganGirl - Different Wolverines... :wink:

Posted: **Fri Jul 11, 2008 12:52 am**

I'm familiar....I just hope they don't screw this up!!!! :wink:

Posted: **Fri Jul 11, 2008 12:59 am**

One of those guilty pleasure of a fairly horrible movie that I will sit and watch every FREAKIN time it's on tv!! :lol:

I agree, this could be really ugly if they're not careful!

In other movie remake news:

Paramount Pictures is no longer interested in a remake of Heavy Metal, the animated, R-rated 1981 film inspired by the 1970s fantasy magazine of the same name. According to EW.com, Paramount's new production executives think the project is too risque for mainstream audiences. Spearheaded by Se7en director David Fincher, the new version would consist of eight to 10 shorts combine into a single film with each segment helmed by a different director. Heavy Metal is now being shopped to other studios.

Posted: **Fri Jul 11, 2008 1:16 am**

Fade up

"Things are different now."

Fade out

This is when I knew I was watching one of the worst movies of all time. Still loved it though.

Posted: **Fri Jul 11, 2008 2:19 am**

I like the original. Same as Willy Wonka and Psycho. Why a remake?

Posted: **Fri Jul 11, 2008 3:06 am**

StoneCold wrote:I like the original. Same as Willy Wonka and Psycho. Why a remake?

Agreed. File this under "wtf"?.

Posted: **Fri Jul 11, 2008 3:10 am**

What kind of movie could they make to scare us? That WAS scary in 1984 but laughable now, in the face of what we've been through in the past ten years!

Posted: **Fri Jul 11, 2008 3:28 am**

Hmmm. Wonder how this would work. The difference was, in 1984, you had a real Soviet Union still in existence -- not so today, obviously. In 1984, Leonid Brezhnev (who had rolled tanks into Prague, and funded revolutionary movements all over Asia, Africa, and Central America) had been dead only about a year. The Berlin Wall was still up. And the war in Afghanistan was still grinding on .....

I think a better movie to make would be "Invasion: America", based on the mid-'70s bookcase game by the same name. A socialist Europe and Soviet Union invades across the Atlantic, while a similar socialist-led South American coalition invades from the south, and a pan-Asian socialist coalition invades across the Pacific. The box cover had three foreign soldiers raising a red hammer-and-sickle flag on the Statue of Liberty, similar to the American flag-raising on Iwo Jima. Kind of a sobering thought, in 1976 when the game came out .....

(Will Patrick Swayze be in the re-make of "Red Dawn"? Will he say "Nobody puts baby in a corner!!!")

Posted: **Fri Jul 11, 2008 4:14 am**

I always thought a movie of Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising...set in the appropriate time period, with the Soviet Union still the bad guy......would make one fucking fantabulous movie.

It would have to be done right....leaving alot of the tangential Clancy plot lines intac...requiring a long 3hr movie. But it could be done and decimate all!

Posted: **Fri Jul 11, 2008 5:37 am**

AlteredDNA wrote:WOLVERINES!

Sorry MichiganGirl - Different Wolverines...

Robert (C Thomas Howell) was a bad ass in that movie. "All that hate is gonna eat you up" ...... "Nah. Keeps me warm inside."

Posted: **Fri Jul 11, 2008 7:02 am**

I can see them updating this well. The threat won't be Russian. If we bring it to terrist terms than it could really be tense.

That being said...this will likely come out like a new movie and therefore no need for the "remake" tag and "Red Dawn" title. This should not be a remake.

Let me know when Iron Eagle is redone. (I LOVE that movie!!)

Posted: **Fri Jul 11, 2008 9:21 am**

Still waiting for the "The Day After" remake or a good nuclear war movie.

MR

OT: Remake of "RED DAWN" in the works

OT: Remake of "RED DAWN" in the works