Red Dawn (2012 film)

[Anarcho-Brocialist]

Red Dawn is an upcoming American action war film directed by Dan Bradley and written by Jeremy Passmore and Carl Ellsworth based on the 1984 film of the same name. The remake stars Chris Hemsworth and Josh Peck as brothers Jed and Matt Eckert. The film was scheduled to be released on November 24, 2010, but was shelved due to MGM's financial troubles, and is now set for a 2012 release. Instead of depicting a Soviet invasion of the United States as in the 1984 film, the 2012 version's storyline was originally filmed with a Chinese invasion. This was later edited to depict a North Korean invasion in post-production due to concerns from distributors.

As if the first Red Dawn didn't suck enough, they're going to create another one? On top of that, they're going to depict the atrocities during occupation. I've never seen a movie where a half-dozen Iraqi teenagers band together to topple American occupying troops.

EDIT : Picture from the film http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/images/cafc070110.gif

[Mass Grave Aesthetics]

imperialist propaganda films are worthless without Chuck Norris anyway.

[Sperm-Doll Setsuna]

imperialist propaganda films are worthless without Chuck Norris anyway.

Even worse with him.

[Prometeo liberado]

I thought they were going to change it from the Chinese to the DPRK "helping" us out? I dont know if I would necessarily give a shit either way if it did happen. Where's my Rosetta Stone?

[pluckedflowers]

"This was later edited to depict a North Korean invasion in post-production due to concerns from distributors."

In post-production?

[Ocean Seal]

I've never seen a movie where a half-dozen Iraqi teenagers band together to topple American occupying troops.

Because that makes sense. Obviously the DPRK is gon invade us and take our guns.

[Prometeo liberado]

"This was later edited to depict a North Korean invasion in post-production due to concerns from distributors."

In post-production?

Ya, thats what I read a while back. Lots of photo shop and stuff like that. Still, I think that this movie will be about as exciting as the corpse of Patrick Swayze. They both stink and are their former incarnations weren't all that good to begin with.

[Magón]

It's just the first in the Hipster-sploitation genre of film. I mean, have you seen the clothes the protagonists are wearing? Definitely Hipsters.

[Os Cangaceiros]

Who are going to play the villains in this? Wouldn't it be sweet if Jackie Chan played a demented DPRK colonel? Min-sik Choi would be really good too, but I think he's still an unknown on the American film scene.

[Psy]

Because that makes sense. Obviously the DPRK is gon invade us and take our guns.
Come on even the cheesy movie 1980's movie World War III the USSR were only engaged in a limited war in Alaska with the USSR making a calculated risk to take strategic oil infrastructure in Alaska so the USSR would have more sway in negotiations with the USA.

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Yet Red Dawn made no sense, it was just the USSR was invading the USA because they are the USSR and it seems the remake will be the same but with China.

[Rusty Shackleford]

Wolverines!

[Sperm-Doll Setsuna]

Come on even the cheesy movie 1980's movie World War III the USSR were only engaged in a limited war in Alaska with the USSR making a calculated risk to take strategic oil infrastructure in Alaska so the USSR would have more sway in negotiations with the USA.

Yet Red Dawn made no sense, it was just the USSR was invading the USA because they are the USSR and it seems the remake will be the same but with China.

In the mini-series Amerika (1987) the Soviet Union uses some sort of EMP's to disable U.S. defences and take over the country peacefully. Frankly the conduct is inexplicable in this series - as is hardly surprising - with the Soviets somehow allowing a number of nationalist movements to succeed, as well as the fact that a part of the central plot involves staging a terrorist attack on the Senate - that's right, the Soviets took over, but the left the bloody Senate and House of Representatives intact, and seems to have done basically nothing apart from somehow setting up labour camps in the Rust belt...

[gorillafuck]

hahahaha a film about North Korea invading the US?

I personally am much more afraid of a takeover from Ghana.

[Lenina Rosenweg]

The still in the OP actually makes a PRC occupation of the US look quite appealing.Obama sure as hell isn't "fixing my economy", "helping me get back on my feet", or "defeating my enemies".

There is an interesting SF novel written in the 90s, "China Mountain Zhong" in which the US has a socialist revolution by the late 21st century, aided by China.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/836964.China_Mountain_Zhang

[Yuppie Grinder]

I'm gonna see it in the theater stoned and not pay and I will laugh. It'll be fun.

[Grenzer]

The still in the OP actually makes a PRC occupation of the US look quite appealing.Obama sure as hell isn't "fixing my economy", "helping me get back on my feet", or "defeating my enemies".


Damn right.

Jintao-Jaibao 2012!

[Per Levy]

hahahaha a film about North Korea invading the US?

well if the story of this movie is the same as in the videogame "homeland" then usa are in a deep financial crisis and had to withdraw from most countries in the world, so north korea then seizes the opportunity and invades south korea and a little later japan and then invades a weakend usa to do all kinds of nasty thing. silly story really.

[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

There is an interesting SF novel written in the 90s, "China Mountain Zhong" in which the US has a socialist revolution by the late 21st century, aided by China.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/836964.China_Mountain_Zhang

China will never aid the American proletariat if we ever rise in revolution. They will probably send money to the American government to suppress us. They have their own capitalist interests over here. They would be the enemy of socialism.

@OP: That movie is probably going to suck. Don't waste your money, unless you go high.

[Comrade Samuel]

So it's the same movie with the same intent to scare us into hating our #1 enamy but its modern because we changed the antagonists? Good job hollyhood and did I see Josh peck as one of the actors? What the hell is he doing in anything that isent for children?

[Comrade_Stalin]

In the mini-series Amerika (1987) the Soviet Union uses some sort of EMP's to disable U.S. defences and take over the country peacefully. Frankly the conduct is inexplicable in this series - as is hardly surprising - with the Soviets somehow allowing a number of nationalist movements to succeed, as well as the fact that a part of the central plot involves staging a terrorist attack on the Senate - that's right, the Soviets took over, but the left the bloody Senate and House of Representatives intact, and seems to have done basically nothing apart from somehow setting up labour camps in the Rust belt...

You know I read up on that Amerika (1987) on wiki after hear about it on RevLeft. In that world 50% of the industries are moved to the Soviet Union, the United States unites, and at the end the Soviets kill the Senate and House of Representatives.

It should be noted that in this world 98% of the industries are moved to China, the United States is divided, in the Senate and House of Representatives are making our lives worse a day at a time. In fact we have more in that movie and we have now.

Which is kind of funny if you really look at it from.

[Psy]

In the mini-series Amerika (1987) the Soviet Union uses some sort of EMP's to disable U.S. defences and take over the country peacefully. Frankly the conduct is inexplicable in this series - as is hardly surprising - with the Soviets somehow allowing a number of nationalist movements to succeed, as well as the fact that a part of the central plot involves staging a terrorist attack on the Senate - that's right, the Soviets took over, but the left the bloody Senate and House of Representatives intact, and seems to have done basically nothing apart from somehow setting up labour camps in the Rust belt...
I decided to watch it, it is way more stupid.

The USSR occupied the USA for 10 years then all of a sudden decided to break up the US, then decided stage the terrorist attack fearing the US would rise again.