Today USA Today showed the pictures from the remake of the 1984 classic Red Dawn. The film was shot in 2009 but was delayed due to MGM’s financial problems. The film is finally set to hit theaters on November 21st but not without some big changes having been made to the final film.
When it was shot four years ago it had a cast of then unknowns, some have since become break-out stars. The cast includes Chris Hemsworth, Josh Hutcherson, Adrianne Palicki,Isabel Lucas and Josh Peck. The film had an entirely different enemy army when it was shot but it has since been changed digitally for the final version as well as being re-edited.
“Originally it was the Chinese,” Hutcherson says. “And then there was the thought that the Chinese own most of the companies making movies and that maybe it wasn’t the best idea in the world.”
In the end, the attacking forces became the North Koreans (aided by the Chinese and Russians).
Like the original 1984 version communism is the ultimate villain. The first film starred a cast of then up and comers such as Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey (no body puts Baby in the corner), Lea Thompson, C. Thomas Howell, and introduced the world to Charlie Sheen. The film was set in Colorado and saw the cast play a group of teens who band together as “the Wolverines,” a guerilla unit, who fight an invasion of Soviet, Cuban and Nicaraguan forces at the dawn of World War III. If you haven’t seen it I recommend you check it out. It’s currently available on Netflix Instant Streaming.
