Red Dawn remake to feature Kurt Russell - Go Wolverines!

Kurt Russell is always cool in my book - Escape from New York, The Thing, Big Trouble in Little China, Tombstone and many more - he is cool and knows how to kick ass.

ComingSoon.net exclusively learned today at the San Diego Comic-Con that Kurt Russell is talks to star in Red Dawn, the MGM remake scheduled for a September 24, 2010 release.

To be directed by Dan Bradley, the war film's cast includes Chris Hemsworth (Star Trek, upcoming Thor), Josh Peck and Adrianne Palicki (upcoming Legion).

The original Red 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.

I wasn't that bothered about this remake, but now that Russell may be involved it suddenly got interesting. We just have to find out what role he will be playing. I wonder if he will be leader of the bad guys?

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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.