- Date: November 21, 2012
- Type: Movie
Red Dawn is an upcoming American action war film directed by Dan Bradley and written by Jeremy Passmore and Carl Ellsworth based on the 1984 film of the same name. The remake stars Chris Hemsworth, Josh Peck, Josh Hutcherson, Adrianne Palicki, Isabel Lucas, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan. The film centers on a group of young people, who defend their hometown from a North Korean invasion. The remake was announced in May 2008 and went into production in September 2009. The film was originally scheduled to be released on November 24, 2010, but was shelved due to MGM's financial troubles. The invading army was changed from Chinese to North Korean in post-production. FilmDistrict picked up the U.S. distribution rights in September 2011 and set a November 21, 2012 release date. In a suburb of Washington, brothers Jed (Hemsworth) and Matt (Peck) Eckert, along with a group of their friends, look to save their town from an invasion of North Korean soldiers. They hide in the surrounding woods at the Erkert's family cabin and there they train and reorganize themselves into a guerrilla group of revolutionaries. A USAF pilot, Lt. Col. Andrew Tanner (Morgan) reveals that North Koreans have used an EMP satellite to take out the power grids throughout the states, crippling the entire nation, so Jed makes a plan to steal the controls of their new weapon and use it against them. Taking inspiration from their high school mascot, they call themselves the Wolverines, and band together to protect one another, liberate their town from its captors, and take back their freedom.[3]