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We Were Hoping It Might Go Away...But That RED DAWN Remake Now Has A Writer And A Director!!


Merrick here...

Carl Ellsworth will script MGM's remake of RED DAWN (1984), John Milius' paranoid thriller chronicling guerrilla resistance against an invasion of the United States by nasty commies.

Ellsworth recently scripted a film adaption of the Y: THE LAST MAN comic, as well as Wes Craven's RED EYE.

"The tone is going to be very intense, very much keeping in mind the post-9/11 world that we're in," says Ellsworth, who was 11 when the original was released. "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?"

...says Ellsworth in THIS ARTICLE in The Hollywood Reporter.

Dan Bradley will direct the new RED DAWN. Bradley's mammoth career includes Second Unit Direction of...and/or stunt coordination on...titles like SPIDER-MANs 2+ & 3, BOURNEs SUPREMACY & ULTIMATUM, QUANTUM OF SOLACE, and...well...INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL.

You can find our initial report about the announcement of this remake HERE.

Still no word on which current "threat to the United States" will invade us this time around, or if Russia will once again draw the short straw. The choices of bad guys seem limited if The Powers That Be hope to retain the film's title.





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First!!!
by kevinwillis.net
Jul 9th, 2008
10:29:01 AM
What's The Idea Here, Exactly?
by kevinwillis.net
Jul 9th, 2008
10:30:41 AM
It is OBVIOUS: China will team up with Mexico and Invade through
by stlfilmwire
Jul 9th, 2008
10:33:23 AM
Wolverines!
by fiester
Jul 9th, 2008
10:35:01 AM
A hack director.
by HoboCode
Jul 9th, 2008
10:37:00 AM
I will put a million dollars on the fact that
by kataklysmic
Jul 9th, 2008
10:38:25 AM
Only way I'd see this...
by HoboCode
Jul 9th, 2008
10:38:32 AM
That's a disturbing YouTube video...
by Bill Clay
Jul 9th, 2008
10:39:20 AM
So Red Dawn was supposed to be "scary"?
by conspiracy
Jul 9th, 2008
10:41:39 AM
it better be the fucking soviets!
by BMacSmith
Jul 9th, 2008
10:42:46 AM
PONDSCUM !!!!!!!!!!
by picardsucks
Jul 9th, 2008
10:44:54 AM
Hope they just go all-out insane with the invaders...
by Kid Z
Jul 9th, 2008
10:45:06 AM
Osama bin Laden
by Gungan Slayer
Jul 9th, 2008
10:47:15 AM
republicans unite!
by McGooCain
Jul 9th, 2008
10:47:34 AM
Kid Z
by Gungan Slayer
Jul 9th, 2008
10:48:15 AM
wonder who it'll be
by zom-bot.com
Jul 9th, 2008
10:52:15 AM
Did no one see Team America?
by skimn
Jul 9th, 2008
10:54:14 AM
Team America: Too Much Vomit
by kevinwillis.net
Jul 9th, 2008
11:03:05 AM
Script, scripting, scripted, scriptage
by shazam7
Jul 9th, 2008
11:04:35 AM
Huh? What? HOW?!?
by Kasch
Jul 9th, 2008
11:11:10 AM
Wait - Wes Cravens did Red Eye?
by rev_skarekroe
Jul 9th, 2008
11:12:21 AM
yet another stupid idea
by just pillow talk
Jul 9th, 2008
11:12:59 AM
As for this movie, it's pretty obvious what the premise will be.
by rev_skarekroe
Jul 9th, 2008
11:14:38 AM
The USSR? I thought you guys broke up!
by Raymar
Jul 9th, 2008
11:14:54 AM
But seriously, the villains should be Soviets again.
by rev_skarekroe
Jul 9th, 2008
11:15:30 AM
Persian Dawn...When Iran attacks!
by morGoth
Jul 9th, 2008
11:29:00 AM
Red Dawn: remake of Invasion USA 1952 version.
by Uncapie
Jul 9th, 2008
11:29:58 AM
China doesn't HAVE to invade...
by mbeemer
Jul 9th, 2008
11:30:57 AM
One-handed shooting
by aceattorney
Jul 9th, 2008
11:33:38 AM
Who would want to invade the US these days?
by Bong
Jul 9th, 2008
11:37:54 AM
I making my own version of Red Dawn
by krushjudgement
Jul 9th, 2008
11:39:03 AM
Who IS on our side, colonel?
by mefrog
Jul 9th, 2008
11:43:50 AM
How good is the original one..?
by Aeghast
Jul 9th, 2008
11:54:24 AM
Oh well.. Charlie Sheen, Patrick Swayze..
by Aeghast
Jul 9th, 2008
11:55:13 AM
Bad Idea number 1,000,301
by Montag666
Jul 9th, 2008
11:58:23 AM
Jews
by Happy Boy
Jul 9th, 2008
11:59:04 AM
Milius May Be a Reactionary Crank
by Aquatarkusman
Jul 9th, 2008
12:03:37 PM
I know! They'll Bring Back Spalko!
by victor82
Jul 9th, 2008
12:07:33 PM
Hopefully
by Series7
Jul 9th, 2008
12:20:40 PM
Red State Blue State modern day US civil war
by Fred
Jul 9th, 2008
12:26:06 PM
Mexicans!
by fiester
Jul 9th, 2008
12:28:40 PM
my highschool mascot was a
by Gatsbys West Egg Omlet
Jul 9th, 2008
12:37:28 PM
Wasn't the original shitty enough?
by hst666
Jul 9th, 2008
12:40:16 PM
WOLVERIIIIIIINNEEESSSSS
by One Nation Under Zod
Jul 9th, 2008
12:42:21 PM
What's next a Dirty Dancing remake?
by Pops Freshemeyer
Jul 9th, 2008
12:59:59 PM
The original
by homer40
Jul 9th, 2008
01:22:33 PM
Well I Hope
by TCSailor
Jul 9th, 2008
01:24:53 PM
Was that you in the video, Merrick?
by Dragon Man
Jul 9th, 2008
01:51:35 PM
I was watching Red Dawn a few days ago
by pokadoo
Jul 9th, 2008
01:58:49 PM
Just wait
by homer40
Jul 9th, 2008
02:20:45 PM
stalin is da bomb yo
by Prossor
Jul 9th, 2008
02:34:29 PM
Red Dawn?
by spectrebeeyatch
Jul 9th, 2008
02:48:42 PM
"AVENNNGE MAHHHHHH!!!"
by YotzVonFrelnik
Jul 9th, 2008
03:03:33 PM
Plot
by Toonol
Jul 9th, 2008
03:16:20 PM
HoboCode, what are you talking about?...
by depalma25
Jul 9th, 2008
03:22:31 PM
The plans you know about
by homer40
Jul 9th, 2008
04:00:13 PM
Should've gotten Doug Bradley
by Gozu
Jul 9th, 2008
04:03:23 PM
Now that I think about it...
by spectrebeeyatch
Jul 9th, 2008
04:42:19 PM
I Loved the 80s
by kevinwillis.net
Jul 9th, 2008
04:56:14 PM
Homer40: Memories-of-Murder
by kevinwillis.net
Jul 9th, 2008
04:57:11 PM
The UK should invade...
by adebisiUK
Jul 9th, 2008
06:25:56 PM
bring back ron o'neal!
by vestaxwax
Jul 9th, 2008
06:52:28 PM
You can't call it RED Dawn...
by Logan_1973
Jul 9th, 2008
06:58:05 PM
You're right depalma
by HoboCode
Jul 9th, 2008
07:05:52 PM
1 or 2 'not shitty' movies Hobocode?
by adebisiUK
Jul 9th, 2008
07:13:20 PM
1952 Invasion USA is great
by Prossor
Jul 9th, 2008
07:50:29 PM
Why not Redskin Dawn?
by Pops Freshemeyer
Jul 9th, 2008
08:20:12 PM
Islam is not an Nation obviously...
by depalma25
Jul 9th, 2008
09:07:23 PM
Red Dawn is the code for a derivatives-based takedown
by kabong
Jul 9th, 2008
09:27:57 PM
Whoever invades will only use a small army
by kabong
Jul 9th, 2008
09:28:56 PM
octagonproplex last week I saw a poster in
by Grammaton Cleric Binks
Jul 9th, 2008
09:58:16 PM
Y the last man
by Adelai Niska
Jul 9th, 2008
09:59:14 PM
China doesn't need to invade us...
by Bill Clay
Jul 9th, 2008
10:13:22 PM
of course! it's a REMAKE - not a "rebuild" or whatever...
by Maniaq
Jul 9th, 2008
10:19:37 PM
hoo boy.
by samsquanch
Jul 9th, 2008
10:45:00 PM
Straight to Video?
by Dr. Chim Richalds
Jul 10th, 2008
12:01:06 AM
Anyone play Freedom Fighters?
by krushjudgement
Jul 10th, 2008
01:57:56 AM
Jericho, the Movie
by The McPoyle Clan
Jul 10th, 2008
05:39:12 AM
Its Pretty Obvious
by EyeofPolyphemus
Jul 10th, 2008
06:28:30 AM
The was a fuckin' ridiculous idea the first time around...
by Pdorwick
Jul 10th, 2008
08:14:32 AM
Black Dawn!
by TheGoodGerman
Jul 10th, 2008
08:38:46 AM
adebisiUK
by jmyoung666
Jul 10th, 2008
08:58:49 AM
adebisiUK
by HoboCode
Jul 10th, 2008
09:02:40 AM
Whats the value in a hostile takeover of the USA?
by ArcadianDS
Jul 10th, 2008
09:17:08 AM
Make it a comedy
by David Cloverfield
Jul 10th, 2008
09:32:34 AM
If they have any balls....
by JoeyGladstone
Jul 10th, 2008
12:48:29 PM
useless
by Brett_FlashJ
Jul 10th, 2008
03:10:34 PM
octagonproplex
by Brett_FlashJ
Jul 10th, 2008
03:18:39 PM
John Milius is a right wing nut
by depalma25
Jul 10th, 2008
09:32:05 PM

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