OT: "Red Dawn" To Be Remade

[Littlearmies]

Is this sacrilegious or what? Taking a classic teen movie of the late Eighties and remaking it twenty years later - and to what purpose?

http://www.getthebigpicture.net/blog...wn-remake.html

I first saw this on the BBC today where they were saying Tom Cruise's adopted kid was going to be playing one of the teens and it was going to be a Chinese / Russian co-invasion. I'm slightly mollified that the guy who wrote Michael Clayton has been hired as the writer (but who knows what the director will do with his script?).

Evidently they also plan to do Robocop. What happened to the days when studios produced original entertainment (or at least only ripped off foreign language movies that nobody had ever watched)?

[pmulcahy11b]

Well, I do think that China is the superpower of the future. But I've also long thought that Hollywood has run out of ideas.

[cavtroop]

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[copeab]

Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b

Well, I do think that China is the superpower of the future. But I've also long thought that Hollywood has run out of ideas.

I have no problem with a movie being remade if there are better ideas in it than the original. For example, John Carpenter's _The Thing_ was far superior to the original.

[pmulcahy11b]

How about making a movie from Heinlein's book Starship Troopers? That "movie they called Starship Troopers but wasn't and sucked" just didn't cut the mustard.

[Legbreaker]

Meh, it was a worth a laugh.

Or worth laughing at, take your pick.

[Littlearmies]

Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b

How about making a movie from Heinlein's book Starship Troopers? That "movie they called Starship Troopers but wasn't and sucked" just didn't cut the mustard.

I'd second that - where was the powered armour? Starship Troopers must rank as one of the crappiest adaptations I've seen.

[pmulcahy11b]

Originally Posted by Littlearmies

I'd second that - where was the powered armour? Starship Troopers must rank as one of the crappiest adaptations I've seen.

Today, the troops in powered armor would be easy to do with CGI, even on a limited budget. Back then, they just put out a cheap movie and got what they paid for. And they threw out most of the back story. I can't believe Heinlein's estate allowed them to put out that crap.

[firewalker]

Originally Posted by copeab

I For example, John Carpenter's _The Thing_ was far superior to the original.

While i agree that John Carpenter's the thing was a real good movie i still must take violent exception to this sentiment

[copeab]

Originally Posted by Littlearmies

What happened to the days when studios produced original entertainment (or at least only ripped off foreign language movies that nobody had ever watched)?

I'll point out here that the Bogart version of _The Maltese Falcon_ was the *third* film version of the novel. Would we be better off if they had never made it?

[boogiedowndonovan]

Littlearmies, you beat me to it.

Tom Cruise's son is going to play the C. Thomas Howell character.

http://movies.yahoo.com/news/movies....remake-reuters

Wikipedia says there are talks with Kurt Russell to be a part of the remake.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Dawn#Remake

Who might he play? Lt. Col. Andrew Tanner? or Tom Eckert?

my most favorite dialogue from the original

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*.
[he throws whiskey on the fire; it ignites violently, suggesting a nuclear explosion]


Guess that dialogue won't make it to the remake.

-bdd