Red Dawn (the movie)

[MikeD]

A rumor I heard was that originally instead of random high school kids they were supposed to be CAP cadets.  Does anyone know more about this?

[Laplace]

  Just got finished watching it on TV tonight. 

I heard that story also recently.  It may have come up with the talk of a remake.

[MikeD]

Just got finished watching it on TV tonight. 

I heard that story also recently.  It may have come up with the talk of a remake.

It's on right now.   Granted I need to get up in 3 hours to to the airport on TDY but at this point I'm prolly better off just staying up... 

Edit:

I officially live these lines, let the record show it:

How'd you get yourself shot down, Colonel,
It was 5 to 1, I got 4

[nesagsar]

As long as we are quoting the movie how about this one: A member of an elite paramilitary organization: "Eagle Scouts."

[NIN]

"Oh, well.. that's not military.."

[RogueLeader]

A rumor I heard was that originally instead of random high school kids they were supposed to be CAP cadets.  Does anyone know more about this?

They were, but NHQ shot it down.  The accepted reason is that it wouldn't show favorably on our cadet program.  Even though they wouldn't be doing it on "CAP's time."

I think that it would have been cool to see, too.  To be perfectly honest, I see their point in it; even now many people who do not know about the program think that this  is a way to force people into the military and such nonsense.

I also heard that Iron Eagle was to have CAP Cadets instead of the Eagles as well.  Same denial for that one as wel.

[Timbo]

^Maybe if they would have allowed it we would have had a few more Cadets during the 80's.  Wow....the 1980's how nostalgic.

Did the kid save the dad in Iron Eagle??  Who did he save in Iron Eagle 2 through 12?? 

[NIN]

Actually, I think if you go back and look, we did have  a lot of cadets in the 80s.

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Who did he save in Iron Eagle 2 through 12?? 

Didn't he (the main character from 1) die early in 2 or 3?

[FlexCoder]

Perhaps, Red Dawn is on the near horizon since the Russian 3rd Fleet is currently in Cuba for the first time in decades.

[Johnny Yuma]

Perhaps, Red Dawn is on the near horizon since the Russian 3rd Fleet is currently in Cuba for the first time in decades.

WOLVERINES!!!

[Stonewall]

Red Dawn was part of our Basic Cadet Training program WIWAC in the 80s.  You couldn't get your Curry without having at least 25% of the movie memorized...50% for your Mitchell, 75% for Earhart and Spaatz, well, you know the standards...

Fun Factoid:  Red Dawn was the first PG-13 movie.

Part II?

MGM will remake the 1984 action drama
By Jay A. Fernandez and Borys Kit

July 9, 2008, 12:00 AM ET



"Red Dawn"

"Red Dawn" will be redone.

Screenwriter Carl Ellsworth has been hired to recraft the ultimate homeland invasion story about a new generation of besieged high schoolers.

Dan Bradley, a second unit director and/or stunt coordinator on "The Bourne Ultimatum," "Spider-Man 3" and the forthcoming "Quantum of Solace," will move into the director's chair for the update. Contrafilm's Beau Flynn and Tripp Vinson will produce.

MGM toppers Harry Sloan and Mary Parent announced the remake -- along with a big-budget rebuild of "RoboCop," which director Darren Aronofsky among others has recently been in to discuss -- in May at the Festival de Cannes. As the studio regroups, its executives have realized that the strong MGM library has numerous classic and cult properties it can exploit for a new audience.

"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?"

Ellsworth will be working from a story written by Jeremy Passmore. Vincent Newman ("A Man Apart") is also acting in a producer capacity.

The original "Dawn" was the Cold War brainchild of writer-director John Milius, who devised a World War III invasion of America by the Soviets and Cubans. The film followed the scrappy insurgency of a group of Midwestern teenagers who take on their high school mascot name -- "Wolverines!" -- as a rallying cry of resistance.

The 1984 action drama was the first film released in theaters with the newly devised PG-13 rating because of its intense subject matter and violent content.

Ellsworth, who is repped by ICM and the Shuman Co., most recently handed in an adaptation of Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra's comics series "Y: The Last Man" to New Line. He also wrote "Red Eye," co-wrote "Disturbia" and rewrote the screenplay for the "Last House on the Left" remake, produced by the original film's writer-director, Wes Craven. Rogue Pictures will release it early next year.

Bradley also is repped by ICM.

[JoeTomasone]

Red Dawn... Ah, yes...  The movie that first got me thinking seriously about Lea Thompson..   

That and Taps (remember that one?) are two of my faves from that era, quasi-militarily speaking, perhaps.

It will be interesting to see the remake of Red Dawn.  I have to wonder if they will change the invaders to either Al Quaeda or North Korea to account for the current climes -- or maybe both, to echo Russia and Cuba.   Can you imagine Osama Bin Laden standing next to Kim Jung Il and saying, "I have seen this before..  In Afghanistan..." - they can re-use dialog!

[davedove]

Red Dawn... Ah, yes...  The movie that first got me thinking seriously about Lea Thompson..   

That and Taps (remember that one?) are two of my faves from that era, quasi-militarily speaking, perhaps.

It will be interesting to see the remake of Red Dawn.  I have to wonder if they will change the invaders to either Al Quaeda or North Korea to account for the current climes -- or maybe both, to echo Russia and Cuba.   Can you imagine Osama Bin Laden standing next to Kim Jung Il and saying, "I have seen this before..  In Afghanistan..." - they can re-use dialog!

I'm really wondering how they would update the movie since there is no rival superpower to invade the US, unless they devise some sort of military alliance of Middle Eastern nations or the like.

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I'm really wondering how they would update the movie since there is no rival superpower to invade the US, unless they devise some sort of military alliance of Middle Eastern nations or the like.

Set it about 5 years in the future and you could use Russia again.

[Timbo]

Set it about 5 years in the future and you could use Russia again.

I was thinking China.  Oh wait, that will be reality. 

[Timbo]

I'm really wondering how they would update the movie since there is no rival superpower to invade the US, unless they devise some sort of military alliance of Middle Eastern nations or the like.

It doesn't have to be superpowers in our world anymore.  It can be a ragtag group of whoever with three nukes. 

[davedove]

I'm really wondering how they would update the movie since there is no rival superpower to invade the US, unless they devise some sort of military alliance of Middle Eastern nations or the like.

It doesn't have to be superpowers in our world anymore.  It can be a ragtag group of whoever with three nukes. 

If it was just someone wanting to attack or even hold a city hostage, I would agree with you, but to invade and occupy (which was the basic premise of the original movie) you need manpower and logistical support.

[Al Sayre]

Cuba, Venezuela and Bolivia?

[nesagsar]

If a caliphate were to be reformed and they decided to take the war to America then the Islamist extremists would be believable.