MGM Plans to Remake 'Robocop' and 'Red Dawn'

But is it really Red Dawn if it's Muslims and North Korean's who take over schools? Wich would be weird, because then the students are the insurgents...

Also, Robocop BETTER be good.

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The "Robocop" re-make is uncesscary. How will/could they improve on the original? They either make it just like the original making it pointless, or try to hard to soup up the special effects and visual style it'll look dumb. "Red Dawn" is a silly re-make as well. It will probobly be some terrisost cell invading a high school instead of the russian army in order to make it revelant to today. Then it'll look like any other action movie with enemy terrorists.

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I have no problem with a RED DAWN remake as long as someone urinates in the radiator. 8-p
But what could you do to Robocop that would make it better or even update it? The Frank Miller penned sequels kinda suck and those could be redone, but the original is so beyond perfect. I guess on the good side it will come and go and will be forgotten about a month after it's released.

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I can't wait for the Road House remake.

Maybe the new Red Dawn will be set in Afghanistan.

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Funny, I thought the same thing...youth resistance to an invading Taliban. I don't think it has to be set in America, as a matter of fact, I think they should avoid setting it in the U.S. I think the core idea of an armed youth resistance may still ring true, especially with the X-Box generation.

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WOLVERINES!!!!!

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I'm all for a Red Dawn remake. I loved the original movie, and whilst I agree it could be seen to be dated, in many way's its not. Relations between the West and Russia are deteriorating again, and whilst we are certainly not in the depths of a new Cold War, there is real uncertanity as to where the relationship will go in coming years. I think that the notion of a Russian invasion of the USA is not particuarly credible, but not impossible. A remake could certainly look at other aspects of the 'World War III' alluded to in the original movie, as an alternative history.

I think basing it on terrorists or such like is so cliche, and even less credible for this movie. As terrible as 9-11 was, the threat from Al Qaeda to the US and the rest of the world is not in the same league as what could have happened in the 1980s had things turned out differently. Al Qaeda is not an existential threat in the same way that the Soviet Union could have been, especially given their reliance on nuclear weapons at the time (which ironically, is the same with Russia today). In looking at the future, the challenge posed by Al Qaeda, whilst a long-term one, will be dwarfed into insignificance if the relationship between the US and China and/or Russia becomes characterised by intense rivalry.

So one option is to have the new movie based in an alternative history, in which the Warsaw Pact did invade NATO in the 1980s, but surprised everyone by also launching a second invasion, (with local allies like the Cubans, et al) into the United States. Set it in a different location in the US, with a different group of people. In other words, the new movie is set in the same universe as the old, runs concurrently with the old one and maybe use some of the original cast as cameos in their Wolverine role (Charlie Sheen and Lea Thompson could still do their original roles, as they have not aged that much - I think Swayze probably has aged too much).

Alternatively, set it 20-30 years in the future, and suggest a US locked in a final battle with a rising China and a resurgent Russia. The US and its allies are engaged in a global war, and the Russians and Chinese launch a diversionary riposte into middle America in an effort to destroy the US's ability to sustain global military operations.

Would enjoy answering any comments,

Malcolm

Department of Defence,
Canberra, Australia

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I pray for a Red Dawn remake. Me and my buddies all had toy AK47's and used smoke bombs for hand grenades. We took metal tubing and painted it camo and stuck bottle rockets in them as RPGs...lol...Wolverines!!! So many classic quotes came out of that movie. "Now get up there and piss in the radiator." "Boys! Avenge Me!, Avenge Me!" "It is World War III out there and people are being killed. My family would want me to stay alive your family would want you to stay alive, you think your so smart man, your just a bunch of scared kids."

The music is a masterpiece, the music goes hand-in-hand with every scene, totaly made the movie! Especially the scene when Jed is holding the pic of him and his brother...CLASSIC!!!

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A Red Dawn remake, I overheard the people behind me talking about before the showing of Dark Knight last night, and thought to myself, you gotta be kiddin me Red Dawn was to me a really cool movie that i still enjoy watching today, but I grew up in the 80s during the cold war, without that serious threat of large organized hostile countries I just dont see how they could remake it, and have it be relevant to today, if they go retro it wouldnt make sense a story of a history that never happened instead of a story of a looming threat and possible future LAME scale it down to localized area terrorist attack REALLY LAME, If they do remake it it needs to be a full scale invasion of the US, which however possible it may or may not be in this day just doesnt seem likely. Besides the whole RED in the title is all about the former Soviet Union, soooo? changed title remake to what Al Queda Dawn? LAME. IF its done I hope its done well and makes a good movie, I just dont see how it could.

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Has anyone ever heard of RED China?

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Redoing Red Dawn with Terrorists isn't Red Dawn. It's "Invasion USA" with Chuck Norris. (You could do a remake with Chuck Norris and Arkansas politicians who organize to unite the left and right in opposition).

A more compelling story would be something about the oil producing regions reacting to the flow of petrodollars slowing dramatically as the US energy independence movement caches on.

700Billion a year that currently leaves the US could raise a pretty good mercenary Army.

- Ron

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