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Red Dawn Returns (Wolverine Remake)
IGN UK ^ | July 9, 2008 | Chris Tilly

Posted on 07/11/2008 6:40:41 AM PDT by tlb

Hot-on-the-heels of news that Darren Aronofsky may be directing MGM's Robocop reboot, the studio has announced plans to remake another '80s feature in the shape of Red Dawn.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Red Eye scribe Carl Ellsworth will pen the script, which will update the story to modern day.

"The tone is going to be very intense, very much keeping in mind the post-9/11 world that we're in," explains Ellsworth.

"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?"

(Excerpt) Read more at movies.ign.com ...


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: genx; hollywood; moviereview; reddawn; wolverines; worstmovieever
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To: Quix
You're wrong, it also applies if someone is trying to draw attention away from the *real* wolf.
181 posted on 07/11/2008 10:12:19 AM PDT by Bear_in_RoseBear (Slide.)
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To: dead

I, for one, welcome our alien overlords...


182 posted on 07/11/2008 10:20:53 AM PDT by Future Snake Eater (Trust me...I know what I'm doing.)
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To: Bear_in_RoseBear

Does not fit, in my case either bad meaning.


183 posted on 07/11/2008 10:23:20 AM PDT by Quix (WE HAVE THE OIL NOW http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3340274697167011147)
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To: Varda
If it’s something parents disapprove of, it’s good. The review site Plugged In describes one of Carl Ellsworth’s previous films (Disturbia) that way,

It was basically a remake of "Rear Window", but with teenagers.

184 posted on 07/11/2008 10:25:17 AM PDT by retrokitten (#1 on the west side)
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This thread has taken an odd turn since I last checked in.


185 posted on 07/11/2008 10:26:36 AM PDT by retrokitten (#1 on the west side)
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To: Transformers

Keep in mind that the “Above Top Secret” site is a whackaloon conspiracy clearinghouse that makes Art Bell look like a paragon of normalcy and sanity.


186 posted on 07/11/2008 10:27:57 AM PDT by Malacoda (A day without a pi$$ed-off muslim is like a day without sunshine.)
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To: Quix
Go ahead, keep your eyes looking in the wrong direction... doesn't bother me any.
187 posted on 07/11/2008 10:29:38 AM PDT by Bear_in_RoseBear (Slide.)
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To: Bear_in_RoseBear

I have 360 degree ‘eyes.’

Have had since 1965.


188 posted on 07/11/2008 10:30:57 AM PDT by Quix (WE HAVE THE OIL NOW http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3340274697167011147)
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To: Varda

Well, the title is “Red Dawn” - you know, “Red” - so I don’t see how they can get away from that. See my previous post. They’ll use the “Red” angle, probably the Chinese, but they’ll make sure that it’s really a “conspiracy within a conspiracy” and that the “real” villain is some Cheney-esque “white guy” who wants to dominate the United States oil market or something equally ridiculous. Trust me, this will be a complete left-wing hack job.


189 posted on 07/11/2008 10:39:39 AM PDT by Boagenes (I'm your huckleberry, that's just my game.)
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To: Quix

“Nor, evidently, have you talked to Marine trainers who’ve questioned our military personnel about whether they would be willing to shoot their own relatives on command in this country.”

No, but I’ve read about the questionnaire that was supposedly given to the military several years ago on that very question. I also didn’t know about the KGB personnel being trained by our military. I do know about the two ex-KGB generals that were hired by Homeland Security several years ago, one of them being anex-STASI General named Wolfe.


190 posted on 07/11/2008 10:40:35 AM PDT by dljordan
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To: gate2wire
Don’t forget the token black guy as the hero.

You mean President-select (by the DBM) Obama?

191 posted on 07/11/2008 10:43:13 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: Alas Babylon!

“Don’t forget the token black guy as the hero.”

“You mean President-select (by the DBM) Obama?”

Ha, hadn’t even thought of him. Of course, then it would have to be “the token black/white guy as the hero.”


192 posted on 07/11/2008 10:46:51 AM PDT by gate2wire
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To: Corin Stormhands

Hey, In my world, Revenge of the Nerds was a documentary.


193 posted on 07/11/2008 10:52:14 AM PDT by Varda
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To: retrokitten
They mention there are those that have that take. I love “Rear Windows” and that movies characters are pretty straight. The bad guy is sinister from the start and the good guys are ordinary moral people. It doesn't sound like “Disturbia” is that way.
194 posted on 07/11/2008 10:58:13 AM PDT by Varda
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To: Boagenes; Varda
Well, the title is “Red Dawn” - you know, “Red” - so I don’t see how they can get away from that.

Easy enough. The red states will invade the blue states...

195 posted on 07/11/2008 10:58:42 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands
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To: tlb

I thought Red Dawn was a good movie. I was thinking about it for 3 days afterwards. Not many movies do that.


196 posted on 07/11/2008 11:01:24 AM PDT by Kevmo (A person's a person, no matter how small. ~Horton Hears a Who)
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To: Boagenes

True, “Red” does sort of require a red angle. It occurs to me that Republican states are colored red these days. Maybe they’ll go after that angle.


197 posted on 07/11/2008 11:02:44 AM PDT by Varda
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To: Corin Stormhands

You beat me to it!


198 posted on 07/11/2008 11:03:24 AM PDT by Varda
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To: Varda

The bad guy is a bad guy. He’s a serial killer. He gets women drunk and kills them. There are very few adults in the movie for any length of time, except for the killer and Shia’s mom. The kids are pretty typical teenagers (but I thought the girl was uber annoying) and the whole movie is generally a typical teen movie. It’s not horrible, but I was glad I didn’t spend $8.50 to see it either. If you have HBO, it’s on this month.

IMO, someone would have to be looking extremely hard at that movie to see it as making a mockery of morality.


199 posted on 07/11/2008 11:10:59 AM PDT by retrokitten (#1 on the west side)
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To: retrokitten

That’s good to know. I’m always on the lookout for at least marginal movies to watch. I may rent it for $1.


200 posted on 07/11/2008 11:24:24 AM PDT by Varda
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