Screenwriter Carl Ellsworth (“Red Eye,” “Disturbia”) has been hired to pen MGM’s remake of the 1984 homeland invasion thriller “Red Dawn” says The Hollywood Reporter.
The John Milius-directed original dealt with a World War III invasion of America by the Soviets and Cubans, and followed a group of Midwestern teenagers who take on their high school mascot name — “Wolverines!” — as a rallying cry of resistance.
The new version will updated to post-9/11 contemporary times. “Bourne Ultimatum” and “Quantum of Solace” second unit director Dan Bradle will helm the new version which was first announced at Cannes in May.
