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On the heels of yesterday's casting announcements, Latinoreview has exclusively learned that Tony Gilroy, the oscar nominated writer/director of Michael Clayton (and one of my top five favorite all time screenwriters) has come aboard to rewrite MGM/UA's remake of RED DAWN! Not surprising considering that Dan Bradley, the director of the remake, was the 2nd unit director of the Jason Bourne films which Gilroy penned. Gilroy has recently delivered a 107 page draft dated 06-01-09. The remake was penned by Carl Ellsworth and Jeremy Passmore and based on the 1984 Cold War-era film co-written and directed by John Milius. We...

It was never a question of whether John Milius’ Red Dawn would become a reference point in the war on terror; it was only a question of when and how. In the 1984 film, Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey and C. Thomas Howell grind down a Soviet invasion with pilfered AK-47s and RPGs. When the raid that captured Saddam Hussein was coined Operation Red Dawn, the film found its place in history. The movie was immediately recalled by the press as "Cold War propaganda" and "jingoistic." But the central theme of the story–the bitterness of dying to protect one’s country–was overlooked,...

The operation to capture Saddam Hussein was called Red Dawn, the title of a gung-ho, anti-communist film made 20 years ago. Although the Pentagon did not confirm yesterday whether the film had inspired the operation's title, the movie's director, John Milius, was in no doubt.Red Dawn, which starred Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen and Harry Dean Stanton, was about a a nuclear attack and Soviet invasion of the US which is thwarted by a group of Colorado teenagers who call themselves the Wolverines. The code names given to the two huts at Saddam's hideaway were Wolverine 1 and Wolverine 2. Milius,...

Among those in their glory Monday at the capture of Saddam Hussein was movie director John Milius, an unapologetic traditionalist who has long contended he is blacklisted by liberal Hollywood for his love of the military. The Army's 4th Infantry Division, which used 600 troops to capture Hussein, apparently borrowed the operation's code name — Red Dawn — from Milius' 1984 Cold War drama of that name. In the flick, Soviet troops invade America, only to be repelled by a resistance movement coordinated by a group of Colorado high school students.