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Red Dawn
Directed by	Dan Bradley
Written by	Carl Ellsworth
Starring	Chris Hemsworth Josh Peck Adrianne Palicki Josh Hutcherson Isabel Lucas Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Country	United States
Language	English

Red Dawn is an upcoming 2010 film being directed by Dan Bradley and written by Carl Ellsworth based on the 1984 film of the same name.

Plot

A group of teenagers look to save their town from an invasion of Chinese and Russian soldiers.

Cast

• Chris Hemsworth as Jed Eckert
• Josh Peck as Matt Eckert
• Josh Hutcherson as Robert Morris
• Isabel Lucas as Erica Mason
• Adrianne Palicki as Toni Mason
• Edwin Hodge as Danny
• Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Lt. Col. Andrew Tanner
• Brett Cullen as Tom Eckert
• Connor Cruise as Daryl Bates

Development

Two top executives at MGM, Harry Sloan and Mary Parent, announced that a remake of Red Dawn is in the early stages of pre-production in May 2008 at the Festival de Cannes. This was announced along with a big-budget rebuild of RoboCop, which director Darren Aronofsky among others has recently been in to discuss. The remake of Red Dawn is slated to be directed by Dan Bradley, who has previously worked as a second unit director and stunt coordinator on films such as The Bourne Ultimatum, Spiderman 3 and the Quantum of Solace. MGM has announced that Red Dawn will be remade "keeping in mind the post-9/11 world that we're in". In a further announcement the same month, Dan Bradley has been confirmed as the director with Carl Ellsworth, screenwriter of Red Eye and Disturbia writing the updated screenplay. Ellsworth will be working from a story written by Jeremy Passmore. Vincent Newman (A Man Apart) is also acting in a producer capacity. Australian Chris Hemsworth has been cast in a lead role.

Ellsworth has said:

"The tone is going to be very intense, very much keeping in mind the post-9/11 world that we’re in. 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? It was later revealed that the Chinese would be the invaders and they would be aided by the Russians later on."

Joining Hemsworth are Josh Peck and Adrianne Palicki for the film, with a possible setting of Spokane, Washington. Marquette, Michigan is being considered as a filming location. Tony Gilroy, who wrote The Bourne Trilogy and Michael Clayton will do a rewrite of script. Kurt Russell is currently in talks to star in Red Dawn. Recently Josh Hutcherson and Isabel Lucas have been added to the cast. The day after, Edwin Hodge and Connor Cruise were cast, thus completing the Wolverines. It was confirmed that the film will be shot in Michigan, and part of the movie would be shot in Detroit. Academy Award Winner, Kirk Francis has been tasked for the Sound Mixing. It currently has a release date of September 24th, 2010. It has also been confirmed that they are filming the remake in such the Michigan cities as Mount Clemens, Troy, Royal Oak, Pontiac, and Grand Ledge. In addition, the opening football scene for the new film; which did not appear in the original film, was shot at the former Detroit Notre Dame High School in Harper Woods, Michigan. Recently Watchmen and The Losers star Jeffrey Dean Morgan will star in the movie as Andrew Tanner.

Principal photography has begun as of September 2009 in Mount Clemens, Michigan.

References

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