Red Dawn remake finally coming out?

Matt Wiser · Sep 28, 2011

It took long enough, but the Red Dawn remake originally scheduled for last year is finally coming out, according to the Los Angeles Times. An independent studio called Film District will handle the distribution, not MGM. First MGM's financial woes prevented the film's release, then the studio insisted on changing the invaders from Chinese to North Koreans, so as not to anger the ChiComs and enable MGM's access to the Chinese market.

So, if the L.A. Times piece is accurate, the dawn will rise in 2012. Maybe.

Here's a link to the story:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/mov...-to-come-out-next-year-from-filmdistrict.html

gladiator8085 · Sep 28, 2011

NK

North Korea?

Seriously, and what exactly happens to the USAA, USN, USAF, and the Marines? What is this a movie made for 'Homefront' the game?

Sumeragi · Sep 28, 2011

As far as I know, the DPRKers are the frontline troops, meaning they're part of this coalition or something.

Also, Homefront's backstory is more realistic than almost all of the FPS games out there.

Faeelin · Sep 28, 2011

I still maintain the remake should've had cyberpunk Eurocommies invading.

Color-Copycat · Sep 29, 2011

I'm surprised to learn they managed to revive the project after all the ups and downs it's been through.

Emperor Norton I · Sep 29, 2011

Were the enemies returned to being the Chinese?

rvbomally · Sep 29, 2011

Sumeragi said:
Also, Homefront's backstory is more realistic than almost all of the FPS games out there.

That's because almost all FPS games have the player fighting completely fictional enemies. The only thing Homefront has going for it is that North Korea actually exists.

Matt Wiser · Sep 29, 2011

The invaders were digitally changed from Chinese to North Koreans. MGM honchos ordered the changes when the studio emerged from bankruptcy, so as to preserve MGM's access to the Chinese movie market.

vultan · Sep 29, 2011

Matt Wiser said:
The invaders were digitally changed from Chinese to North Koreans. MGM honchos ordered the changes when the studio emerged from bankruptcy, so as to preserve MGM's access to the Chinese movie market.

But it's not being released by MGM anymore, so...

Questerr · Sep 29, 2011

Sumeragi said:
As far as I know, the DPRKers are the frontline troops, meaning they're part of this coalition or something.

Also, Homefront's backstory is more realistic than almost all of the FPS games out there.

...Right...

So how does an EMP magically take out the EMP hardened US military again?

BlackWave · Sep 29, 2011

Questerr said:
...Right...

So how does an EMP magically take out the EMP hardened US military again?

It's a super-duper EMP based on alien technology stolen from Area 51.

Anyway, if the implications that the North Koreans are merely serving as auxiliaries for some evil Chinese alliance or something, well, that's at least marginally more sensible than Kim Jong-un annexing South Korea by apparently just asking them very nicely. However it ends up, though, I hope at least the filmmakers will have the decency to show the North Koreans as not being cartoonishly evil commie-nazis like Homefront did. But it's a remake of a Reaganite propaganda film, so what am I talking about.

981101128 · Sep 29, 2011

Questerr said:
...Right...

So how does an EMP magically take out the EMP hardened US military again?

Well we were going through a plague, state session, and famine at the time. Maybe the US army's budget was slashed?

I know the plot was ridiculous, but if I were given the job of writing a "North Korea invades US" storyline, Homefront's plotline would be the best I could do.

Noravea · Sep 29, 2011

Yeah. Also, while the plot may seem impossible to us history nerds, it is plausible in the minds of many, many people who know nothing about history.

Besides that though, I've played the game all the way through and it seems very good in my opinion. The story was good (Besides the ASB universe its in). I actually was tearing up a bit during the part when they find the mass graves in the football field.

Sumeragi · Sep 30, 2011

Questerr said:
...Right...

So how does an EMP magically take out the EMP hardened US military again?

The US has fallen to the point that interstate conflicts are occurring, millions are affected by some new flu, infrastructure is total C**P..... I can see that happening, IF the economy crashed that hard.

Noravea said:
Yeah. Also, while the plot may seem impossible to us history nerds, it is plausible in the minds of many, many people who know nothing about history.

I'm one to say that the history nerds is too self-satisfied with themselves to see the way

Just a question: Has anyone read the entire IG news articles which tells you what happened until the setting of the game?

Troyer IV · Sep 30, 2011

What happened to just making a remake as it was originally conceived? Ya know, the whole Russo-Cuban-Nicaraguan invasion effort of the original? Hell, the Chinese were US allies in that one.

teg · Sep 30, 2011

Matt Wiser said:
The invaders were digitally changed from Chinese to North Koreans. MGM honchos ordered the changes when the studio emerged from bankruptcy, so as to preserve MGM's access to the Chinese movie market.

Either this suggests China is even worse than I thought it was or that MGM has a very low opinion of the Chinese people.

As long as they present the North Koreans as occupation troops and not the actual frontline invaders (eg it is hinted that the Chinese/Russians are the ones fighting on the front) like Romania or Bulgaria in World War II, then I will be willing to swallow it.

Life In Black · Sep 30, 2011

teg said:
Either this suggests China is even worse than I thought it was or that MGM has a very low opinion of the Chinese people.

As long as they present the North Koreans as occupation troops and not the actual frontline invaders (eg it is hinted that the Chinese/Russians are the ones fighting on the front) like Romania or Bulgaria in World War II, then I will be willing to swallow it.

Not so much Bulgaria, but the Romanians had whole armies fighting on the front lines. The encirclement of Stalingrad IIRC, took the Soviets right through Romanian formations.

Clipper747 · Sep 30, 2011

The coffeehouse Marxists in Portland will love this movie.

Landshark · Sep 30, 2011

rvbomally said:
That's because almost all FPS games have the player fighting completely fictional enemies. The only thing Homefront has going for it is that North Korea actually exists.

Though to be fair North Korea does look like something made up for a bad techno thriller.

The Red · Sep 30, 2011

Why not use the EU? We're not nearly as easily offended as the Chinese, we're actually a potential superpower instead of a third world nation which can't feed itself and it's a hell of a lot more plausible, at least militarily.