OT: "Red Dawn" To Be Remade

[Littlearmies]

Is this sacrilegious or what Taking a classic teen movie of the late Eighties and remaking it twenty years later - and to what purpose

http://www.getthebigpicture.net/blog/2009/7/25/kurt-russell-eyes-red-dawn-remake.html

I first saw this on the BBC today where they were saying Tom Cruise's adopted kid was going to be playing one of the teens and it was going to be a Chinese / Russian co-invasion. I'm slightly mollified that the guy who wrote Michael Clayton has been hired as the writer (but who knows what the director will do with his script).

Evidently they also plan to do Robocop. What happened to the days when studios produced original entertainment (or at least only ripped off foreign language movies that nobody had ever watched)

[pmulcahy11b]

Well, I do think that China is the superpower of the future. But I've also long thought that Hollywood has run out of ideas.

[cavtroop]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOo!!!!

[copeab]

What happened to the days when studios produced original entertainment (or at least only ripped off foreign language movies that nobody had ever watched)

I'll point out here that the Bogart version of _The Maltese Falcon_ was the *third* film version of the novel. Would we be better off if they had never made it

[copeab]

Well, I do think that China is the superpower of the future. But I've also long thought that Hollywood has run out of ideas.

I have no problem with a movie being remade if there are better ideas in it than the original. For example, John Carpenter's _The Thing_ was far superior to the original.

[pmulcahy11b]

How about making a movie from Heinlein's book Starship Troopers That "movie they called Starship Troopers but wasn't and sucked" just didn't cut the mustard.

[Legbreaker]

Meh, it was a worth a laugh.

Or worth laughing at, take your pick.

[Littlearmies]

How about making a movie from Heinlein's book Starship Troopers That "movie they called Starship Troopers but wasn't and sucked" just didn't cut the mustard.

I'd second that - where was the powered armour Starship Troopers must rank as one of the crappiest adaptations I've seen.

[boogiedowndonovan]

Littlearmies, you beat me to it.

Tom Cruise's son is going to play the C. Thomas Howell character.

http://movies.yahoo.com/news/movies.reuters.com/tom-cruise39s-son-quotred-dawnquot-remake-reuters

Wikipedia says there are talks with Kurt Russell to be a part of the remake.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Dawn#Remake

Who might he play Lt. Col. Andrew Tanner or Tom Eckert

my most favorite dialogue from the original

Jed Eckert: ...Well, who *is* on our side
Col. Andy Tanner: Six hundred million screaming Chinamen.
Darryl Bates: Last I heard, there were a billion screaming Chinamen.
Col. Andy Tanner: There *were*.
[he throws whiskey on the fire; it ignites violently, suggesting a nuclear explosion]


Guess that dialogue won't make it to the remake.

-bdd

[pmulcahy11b]

I'd second that - where was the powered armour Starship Troopers must rank as one of the crappiest adaptations I've seen.

Today, the troops in powered armor would be easy to do with CGI, even on a limited budget. Back then, they just put out a cheap movie and got what they paid for. And they threw out most of the back story. I can't believe Heinlein's estate allowed them to put out that crap.

[Targan]

I'm looking forward to the remake of Red Dawn.

[natehale1971]

Today, the troops in powered armor would be easy to do with CGI, even on a limited budget. Back then, they just put out a cheap movie and got what they paid for. And they threw out most of the back story. I can't believe Heinlein's estate allowed them to put out that crap.

Don't get me started on that one... Heinlein's estate approved a movie to be made, but didn't enforce creative control. Thus the fact that the writer, producer and director stated they made the movie the way they did on purpose because they considered Heinlein a facist was over looked by everyone when it was in the starlog article when the movie came out.

[Targan]

Meh, I'm more interested in them making a movie version of The Forever War anyway. A better book than Starship Troopers IMO. If they stuffed up a film version of The Forever War I'd be really mad.

[kato13]

Meh, I'm more interested in them making a movie version of The Forever War anyway. A better book than Starship Troopers IMO. If they stuffed up a film version of The Forever War I'd be really mad.

Quick look online says that Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner, Gladiator, Black Hawk down) is attached to direct a 2011 "Forever War" release.

[natehale1971]

you know... it would have been better in the remake to have changed it from being the chinese on our side, to being the russians.... but that is just my own werid idea of irony