by Marc Malkin Wed., Aug. 29, 2012 2:20 PM PDT
Red Dawn Film/District
It doesn't sound like Josh Hutcherson and Chris Hemsworth were given star treatment when they shot the remake of Red Dawn.
Costar Jeffrey Dean Morgan tells me that their first-time director, veteran stunt man Dan Bradley, was all about the cast feeling the action—no matter how brutal it may have been.
"There were a couple of rough days," the 46-year-old Magic City star told me last night at the premiere of his new movie, The Possession. "Dan wants you to do your own stunts."
A winter shoot made it even worse.
"I remember we were out in the middle of the woods outside of Detroit and it was like 30-below," Morgan said. "He wouldn't allow there to be cast chairs or heaters for us in between takes. It sucked.
"I was like, 'Are you kidding me? We're not really fighting a war. We're making a movie!'" he continued. "But no, it was like, 'No chairs, no heaters!' It was crazy."
Awww...
If North Korea really tried this, once all their troops parachuted in, they would surrender so they could defect and get a hot meal.
” “But no, it was like, ‘No chairs, no heaters!’ It was crazy.”
These actors sure sound like tough guys..it must be from all those mascara and make-up everyday.
Poor widdle baby! What actually sucked was that for two weeks I couldn’t go hiking through one of my favorite parks because a bunch of hollyweird crybabies had to have the place to themselves.
I can write the reviews now:
“Bomb hits Hollywood!”
Col. Andy Tanner: ...The Russians need to take us in one piece, and that's why they're here. That's why they won't use nukes anymore; and we won't either, not on our own soil. The whole damn thing's pretty conventional now. Who knows? Maybe next week will be swords.
Darryl Bates: What started it?
Col. Andy Tanner: I don't know. Two toughest kids on the block, I guess. Sooner or later, they're gonna fight.
Jed Eckert: That simple, is it?
Col. Andy Tanner: Or maybe somebody just forget what it was like.
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*.
It gets even worse - a bootleg version of the original movie (that is, with Chinese troops invading the US) is already in circulation in China. that’s right - the Chinese got the unedited copy, and got it earlier then we do.
The Chinese were the good guys in the original Red Dawn.
I would have preferred a fictional “What If” about a Nazi occupation, something akin to “It Happened Here” which was an excellent account of what a Nazi Occupation of Britain would have been like.
Cao tao to the new masters. Ours have all virtually defected to where they’re surrounded with more happily subservient people elsewhere. And just remember: they’re more skilled, smart and generally better than we Americans are.
[The multi-pronged class war was started by the other half during the ‘70s, and the social leftism has been trickling down from their out-of-touch families since—feminism, no-fault divorce, homosexualism, more social engineering programs, anti-manufacturing regulations in rural counties, other attacks on constitutional rights, all.]