The Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell tale of school kids fighting a World War III style invasion is apparantly going to be remade. Their cries of "Wolverines!" will once more echo in cinemas around the world (Wolverine was their school mascot, not the X-Man).
It's going to be scripted by Carl Ellsworth (he wrote Red Eye, co-wrote Disturbia and did a rewrite of the Last House on the Left remake). He has also finished an adaption of the comic series Y: The Last Man for New Line.
Dan Bradley will direct. He has worked on The Bourne Ultimatum, Spider-Man 3 and the Quantum of Solace as a second unit director / stunt coordinator so he has the chutzpah for a big action movie of this type.
The remake was announced at the Cannes Film Festival by Harry Sloan of MGM. Interestingly they also announced a big budget remake of RoboCop with rumours that Darren Aronofsky may direct .
"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?"
Interestingly, 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.
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