{"id":4095,"date":"2012-08-17T08:40:27","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T14:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=4095"},"modified":"2012-08-17T08:40:27","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T14:40:27","slug":"red-dawn-remake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=4095","title":{"rendered":"Red Dawn Remake"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nOn Aug. 9, the first theatrical trailer for the remake of \u201cRed Dawn,\u201d starring Chris Hemsworth and Josh Hutcherson, was released online.<\/p>\n

This “Red Dawn” updates the 1984 movie mostly in the details, notably changing the identity of the big-bad villain. This time, it\u2019s North Korea instead of the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n

But the movie still revolves around a group of young adults who wake up to realize their town, and the rest of the U.S., has been invaded. While most citizens are prisoners, these resistance fighters take to the woods. Calling themselves the Wolverines after their high-school mascot \u2013 now, that\u2019s school spirit on adrenaline \u2013 they take it upon themselves to take on their oppressors, free the town, and fight for freedom.<\/p>\n

Video: ‘Red Dawn’ Theatrical Trailer (2012)<\/p>\n

The \u201cRed Dawn\u201d trailer, which debuted at Yahoo! Movies, doesn\u2019t shy away from reminding audiences who are old enough of its debt to the original movie, which was fun in a kind of B-movie, zeitgeist way.<\/p>\n

The trailer certainly attempts to recreate a \u201cyoung guns\u201d swagger. The Wolverines are depicted as an earnest group of guerrilla fighters. Led in the original by Patrick Swayze and C. Thomas Howell, in the remake the duties fall to Hemsworth and Hutcherson.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe inherited our freedom. Now it\u2019s up to all of us to fight for it,\u201d says Jed Eckert (Hemsworth in Swayze\u2019s role) in the trailer.<\/p>\n

The trailer also suggests the fights have been intensified, with the remake focused on stopping the North Koreans in what appears to be full-on action mode. That’s another change from the original, which concentrated on the more pragmatic, Cold War concerns of surviving a Soviet invasion.<\/p>\n

This focus on action, by the way, might reflect director Dan Bradley\u2019s background. Bradley’s work has primarily been as a stunt coordinator for movies such as \u201cThe Bourne Legacy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cRed Dawn\u201d also seems intent on developing the key characters as more traditional heroes. Perhaps that reflects the star power of Hemsworth and Hutcherson \u2013 playing on their roles in \u201cThor\u201d and \u201cThe Hunger Games,\u201d respectively \u2013 even though this \u201cRed Dawn\u201d was finished also three years ago. (Its delayed release is due to MGM\u2019s bankruptcy.)<\/p>\n

Still, the trailer and presumably movie provides welcome screen time for Peck, who plays Hemsworth\u2019s brother Matt; Adrianne Palicki, the female lead originally played by Lea Thompson; and several other young Hollywood actors worth watching.<\/p>\n

Whether \u201cRed Dawn\u201d is the vehicle to help these actors’ visibility, however, depends on an audience’s interest in remakes of 1980s flicks.<\/p>\n

The movie will be released to U.S. theaters Nov. 21, just in time for a warm-and-fuzzy Thanksgiving family holiday outing.
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