Oh my god they're remaking John Milius' Red Dawn

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1234719/

And the dude playing Thor is in it.

Who are the bad guys supposed to be in this one?

IMDB board poster claims its the Chinese. Maybe they're coming to collect payment?

if true, this is a travesty and an insult to the mad genius that is the original

For a film with a summer 2010 release date, there's very little info on the interwebs about it. I'd be surprised if it comes out on time (or, really, ever comes out at all).

if true, this is a travesty and an insult to the mad genius that is the original

I always love the career of Vladek Sheybal -- the original Red Dawn, From Russia With Love and The Apple = the man needs no more justification of his greatness.

I'd rather not watch myself on the screen because I get angry and ask, "Why did I do that?"

Watching the original now, SO MUCH of it is far more retarded than you remember. Like, the premise is dumb enough to be celebrated by NRO types.

Some of the outdoor shots are quite beautiful, tho.

The remake has officially been shelved

I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings, but I have grim news: "Red Dawn" isn't coming Nov. 24, as the conservative blogs have all promised. In fact, no one knows when the movie will ever be released. Although it sounds like yet another liberal Hollywood conspiracy, the movie (which was filmed in Detroit last year) is suffering from a far bigger problem: It was made by MGM, and MGM has run out of money. The troubled studio managed to make several movies recently, one that was already released ("Hot Tub Time Machine"), one that is being released next year by Sony ("The Zookeeper") and one, "Red Dawn," that is in the can but may stay there for quite a while, at least until someone buys MGM or provides the kind of big investment needed to market and distribute new films.

Wolverines ;_;

http://sickmouthy.wordpress.com/2011/01/22/red-dawn/

nice post, great freaking movie

the '600 billion screaming chinamen' exchange might be my favorite moment in the movie, especially when, for no reason at all, powers boothe punctuates his response by tossing alcohol on the campfire & creating a fireball that scares the shit out of everyone

in retrospect the silliest thing about the movie is the invasion itself, which it has to go thru incredible contortions to justify - especially the idea that the soviets would have supply lines going from russia to across the bering strait, through thousands of miles of rugged canadian terrain and into middle america - its stupider than napoleon invading russia

the silliest thing

i'm currently in a fringe theatre production called "P!nk D@wn" where we're playing an acting troupe recreating the original 80's movie.

and imo, don't remake this movie. The only version needs to be the shitty OTT camp version. for the LOLs. Think of the Lols.

shutup JOSHUA!!!!

sorry... im sorry... i didnt mean that...

This movie makes me embarrassed to be American.

haha jesus dude

Conservative paranoid cinema of the 80's -- breathe it in, boys.

Ugh watched the orig for the first time a few years ago and was offended by all the authoritarian reinforcing in every set-up. Wanted it to be like that movie where ransomers take over private boys' school and the students fight back (tho granted the book of that was way more hard-core and satisfying than the movie). But RD just sucked all air out of the room with its paranoia, xenophobia, gender stereotypes, and "persecuted citizen militia" bullshit.

Admit to being curious about what a remake would have done with the source material, but not curious enough to be sorry it got canned.

why cant you guys just love things that are awesome

Wanted it to be like that movie where ransomers take over private boys' school and the students fight back (tho granted the book of that was way more hard-core and satisfying than the movie).

do you mean Masterminds??? it had this awesome scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz_Jg3w8pLU

No, Toy Soldiers! Movie was '80s cheese but I loved the book in high school. Wd read again.

They should remake it, but the twist should be that the Russian (will they be Russian!?) invasion is faked by the US government to mobilize a bunch of ignorant idiots into forming an elite insurgency group. Then, trained and hardened by this elaborate test, at the end they can be airdropped into Pakistan as paramilitary commandos. And then they can make a sequel set in Pakistan, from the Pakistani perspective, that treats the Wolverines as invaders, and people can debate the irony.

the remake made the badguys Chinese, and the group of kids is multiethnic

the movie's been in the can for a while now there's publicity shots of it online and shit

"why cant you guys just love things that are awesome"

i agree. such a great movie.

and i need a remake about as much as i needed a warriors remake. you offend god when you try to artificially duplicate something naturally perfect.

yea i mean trying to make it a 'good movie' is missing the point.

The question is, though, is it in 3-D!?! That makes everything better.

if the original movie could talk it would be saying AVENGE ME!! AVEEEENGGGE MEE!!!

this film wouldn't make any sense at all now, even if putin does h8 america. not that the original was 100% plausible or anything.

back than John Milius/Golan Globus/Ronald Reagan wanted us to believe invasion was around the corner.

hence that one Chuck Norris movie....

So the Chinese are the villains in this one...that's gonna turn out well.

hopefully it's like the dodgeball episode of South Park

or maybe instead of killing and enslaving everyone they could come and teach all of teh US kung-fu, which they then use to defend themselves against resurrected evil Mongolian emperors.

In this movie, the Chinese invade out schools and take our good jobs, and the Wolverines (liberal arts sort of guys) are forced to band together and take all these SAT prep courses and extracurriculars to catch up.

(our schools, that is)

xpost ^^^^^^ start shooting

the film, not the Chinese

haha

Zookeeper

The animals at the zoo adore their overweight caretaker Griffin Kayes (Kevin James), an amiable but lonely guy who's never quite fit in. Finding himself more comfortable with a lion than a lady, Griffin decides he should leave the zoo and get a life.

When the zoo animals discover his plan, they decide to break their code of silence and reveal their biggest secret: they can talk! Now they won't shut up and they're teaching Griffin nature's best mating rituals. To help him win the girl of his dreams (Rosario Dawson) and save their happy family, they're willing to do — or say — anything.

Cast
Kevin James as Griffin Kayes
Rosario Dawson as Brenda
Leslie Bibb as Miranda Davis
Ken Jeong as Pendleton "Pen" Lee
Donnie Wahlberg as Melly Jonsey
Jim Breuer as Stanley "Stan" Evens
Brandon Keener as Nimer
Joe Rogan as Justin Davis
Thomas Gottschalk as Geoffrey Mavroc

Voice cast
Adam Sandler as a Capuchin monkey
Sylvester Stallone as a lion
Cher as a lioness
Judd Apatow as an elephant
Jon Favreau as a bear
Mark Linn-Baker as a penguin
Jim Breuer as a crow
Faizon Love as a bear
Bas Rutten as a tiger
Maya Rudolph as a lioness
Billy Crystal as a llama
Kiefer Sutherland as an ape
David Spade as a flamingo
Mary Elizabeth Winstead as a giraffe

TS: Kevin James w/Rosario Dawson vs. Kevin James w/Winona Ryder vs. Kevin James w/oh come on now...

I thought "zookeeper" was something you'd made up, until I imdb it.

a, the plot is stupid
b, the massive cast
c, kevin james getting lead roles still

also, very disappointed with rosario too :(

They keep giving him lead roles because his movies gross hundreds of millions of dollars.

One thing about the original that I never remembered until we watched it again some months back is that the outdoor photography is beautifully shot. The premise is utter bollocks, but some of the performances are good.

i remember reading about when the film was originally released, NPR had on some Polish author raving about how great it was, due to how the partisan highschoolers were portrayed; something about how accurate it was to French & Polish Resistance groups grew and functioned during the War.

The remake is dead in the water, right? They shot a lot of stuff in Pontiac, MI, but killed the project, didn't they?

Nope, it's in the can but delayed due to the MGM financial shit

I remember for years the original "Red Dawn" was in the Guinness Book of World Records for "Most Violent Movie." How quaint. Sort of how the Who (or was it Deep Purple or something?) was in there for "World's Loudest Concert." Man, have things changed on both fronts. "Red Dawn" could probably be a network show these days. Certainly AMC/FX!

It's only a 15 cert in the UK, and while there are a lot of "acts of violence" they are all pretty quaint compared to, oh I dunno, Irreversible.

Clip of 2010 remake on youtube popped up an advert reading "date pretty chinese girl" lololol

^^^^^^^^^^ how it all begins

Major fucking roffles here:

When MGM decided a few years ago to remake "Red Dawn," a 1984 Cold War drama about a bunch of American farm kids repelling a Soviet invasion, the studio needed new villains, since the U.S.S.R. had collapsed in 1991. The producers substituted Chinese aggressors for the Soviets and filmed the movie in Michigan in 2009.

But potential distributors are nervous about becoming associated with the finished film, concerned that doing so would harm their ability to do business with the rising Asian superpower, one of the fastest-growing and potentially most lucrative markets for American movies, not to mention other U.S. products.

As a result, the filmmakers now are digitally erasing Chinese flags and military symbols from "Red Dawn," substituting dialogue and altering the film to depict much of the invading force as being from North Korea, an isolated country where American media companies have no dollars at stake.

Oh, the terror.

TOMORROW: WHEN THE WAR BEGAN

As a result, the filmmakers now are digitally erasing Chinese flags and military symbols from "Red Dawn," substituting dialogue and altering the film to depict much of the invading force as being from North Korea, an isolated country where American media companies have no dollars at stake.

loooool

A North Korean invasion? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

That's exactly what the game Homefront is about, and until I read some (thoroughly unimpressed) reviews yesterday, I had no idea John Milius was involved- kind of a backdoor Red Dawn remake.

Max Brooks relates an entertaining anecdote about his book tour involving John Milius.

When Max was in n.Idaho(where all the militia and neo-nazi types congregate), someone called him out at a reading for "World War Z" that max had recommended the Ak47 over the M16 as the req'd post-zombie-apoc assault rifle of choice. The complaint was that Brooks had opted for the Commie gun over the American. To which Max replied that he had gotten the info from Milius himself that it was the better weapon, since you pretty much have to run it over with a tank to break one. Apparently the clout of Milius was more than enough to silence any more complaints from that crowd on this particular issue.

STOP! Trailer time! http://io9.com/5933572/first-crazy-trailer-for-the-red-dawn-remake

This movie has two stars named "Josh" and uses Filter's "Hey Man, Nice Shot" in the trailer. I smell Oscar.

the next film along these lines should be about Civil War II.

hey man, nice shot

dammit phil

i saw the preview for this before "looper" and all i could think is "why are they using 'hey man nice shot'?"

wait is robert patrick in this?