''Red Dawn'' is a 2012 American action

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directed by

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and written by

Carl Ellsworth Carl Ellsworth is an American screenwriter, best known for writing '' Red Eye'', '' Disturbia'' and ''The Last House on the Left''. Filmography Television *''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' (1997) *'' Mowgli: The New Adventures of the Jungle Book'' ...

and Jeremy Passmore. It is a

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of the 1984 film of the same name. The film stars

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, Josh Peck, Josh Hutcherson,

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, and

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. The film centers on a group of young people who defend their hometown from a

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n invasion.

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announced its intention to remake ''Red Dawn'' in May 2008 and subsequently hired Bradley and Ellsworth. The principal characters were cast the following year and the film went into production in September 2009 in

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. Originally scheduled to be released on November 24, 2010, the film was shelved because of MGM's financial troubles. While in

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, the invading army and antagonists were changed from Chinese to North Korean in order to maintain access to the Chinese box office, though the film was still not released in China. Because of MGM's bankruptcy, the distribution rights were sold to FilmDistrict in September 2011 and the film was released in the

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on November 21, 2012, to mostly negative reviews. The film is also a box-office failure, grossing $50.9 million against its $65 million budget.

Plot

An introductory montage shows the fallout of an economic crisis in the

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and a weakened

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alliance, amid collaborative dealings between a progressively militant

, now led by the young

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, and ultranationalist-dominated

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. The increased deployment of U.S. troops abroad leaves the mainland vulnerable, and American infrastructure is increasingly vulnerable to the threat of a cyberattack. U.S. Marine Jed Eckert is home on leave in

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. He reunites with his father, Spokane Police Sergeant Tom Eckert, and his brother, football player Matt Eckert, as well as his childhood friend Toni Walsh and her cousin Erica Martin, Matt's girlfriend. Matt's football team, the Wolverines, suffers a defeat against another team. After the game, they go to a bar but an unexpected blackout leads to them going home. The following morning, Jed and Matt are shocked to see swarms of invading North Korean paratroopers and transport aircraft. Their father tells them to flee to their cabin in the woods while he helps the townspeople. They are joined there by Matt's friends Robert Kitner, Daryl Jenkins, Danny Jackson, siblings Julie and Greg Goodyear, a stranger named Pete, and later by Toni; Erica is captured by the North Koreans. Tensions build as the teens try to decide whether to surrender to the invaders or resist, with Pete ending up betraying their position. North Korean soldiers, under the command of Captain Cho, bring Sergeant Eckert and Daryl's father, the mayor, out to convince the group to surrender; while the mayor persuades the boys to give up, Cho executes Sergeant Eckert after he refuses to cooperate and actively encourages them to resist. Later, Jed announces that he intends to fight and the others agree to join him, calling themselves the Wolverines after their school mascot. After acquiring weapons, establishing a base in an abandoned mine, and being trained by Jed, the Wolverines begin a series of guerrilla attacks against soldiers and collaborators, including Pete who gets killed in a bomb explosion. As Matt manages to free Erica from her imprisonment, he jeopardizes the mission resulting in Greg's death, leading to tension between him and Jed. The North Koreans retaliate by bombarding the surrounding woods to destroy the Wolverines' base, killing Danny and Julie, with the remaining survivors fleeing deeper into the woods. The Wolverines eventually encounter Marine

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Andrew Tanner and two other Marines, Corporal Smith, and Sergeant Hodges. They reveal that the Russian-backed North Korean invasion used an EMP weapon that crippled the U.S. electrical grid and military, followed by landings along the east and west coasts (

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is hinted by the Marines as having been destroyed in the invasion, as most likely the rest of coastal Southern California), with American counterattacks eventually halting their advances, leaving an area stretching from

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and

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as "Free America", using the

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in the west and the

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in the east as geographic buffers, as pockets of patriotic guerrillas in the Cascades and the

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mountains, and in

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continue to fight. They also reveal that Captain Cho's suitcase contains an EMP-resistant radiotelephone, that if captured would enable the U.S. command to listen in on enemy communication, and gain a tactical advantage in a counter-offensive. The Wolverines assist Tanner, Smith, and Hodges in infiltrating the local police station, the North Koreans' center of operations. They succeed in stealing the suitcase with Jed avenging his father's death by killing Cho, though Hodges is killed in the firefight. After they successfully escape with the suitcase, the Wolverines and Marines regroup in a safe house. However, they are ambushed by Russian

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and Jed is killed in the firefight. Matt and the rest of the group escape with the suitcase. Robert realizes that, during the escape from the police station, Daryl was tagged with a subcutaneous tracking device that the Russians used to find them. After some thought, Daryl accepts the fact that he cannot go on with them and decides to stay behind while the rest continue on to the Marines' extraction point. Tanner and Smith depart in a UH-1 with the suitcase. The remaining Wolverines decide to stay behind and continue to fight, recruiting more members and raiding prisoner camps, with Matt now leading the effort to continue opposing the occupation. The flag of Free America is carried by patriots in a daring raid on a North Korean concentration camp in the final shot of the film.

Cast

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as Jed Eckert,a former Marine and brother Matt also founder Wolverines * Josh Peck as Matt Eckert,little brother Jed and son Tom Eckert who fight for Wolverines * Josh Hutcherson as Robert Kitner *

as Toni Walsh *

as Erica Martin * Connor Cruise as Daryl Jenkins *

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as Julie Goodyear *

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as Tom Eckert,father to Jed and Matt who serve as police officer *

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as Danny * Julian Alcaraz as Greg *

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as Captain Cho, main antagonist of

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invaded Spokane * Michael Beach as Mayor Jenkins,Mayor Spokane *

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as Sergeant Hodges,assitant Sergeant Major Tanner teams *

as Sergeant Major Andrew Tanner,leader

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as Corporal Smith, a korean-american with Tanner teams

Production

In May 2008, at the

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, Harry Sloan and Mary Parent from MGM announced that a

of ''Red Dawn'' was in the early stages of

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, with the remake due to be directed by Dan Bradley, who had previously worked as a

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and stunt coordinator on films such as ''

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,'' ''

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.'' MGM subsequently announced that ''Red Dawn'' would be remade "keeping in mind the

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world that we're in".{{cite news , title='Red Dawn' redo lands director, scribe; MGM will remake the 1984 action drama , first=Jay A. , last=Fernandez , author2=Borys Kit , url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3i28e0d4f7991010721fa8d721c07ce0eb?imw=Y , date=July 9, 2008 , work=

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Later the same month, MGM announced that Dan Bradley had been confirmed as the director with Carl Ellsworth, screenwriter of '' Red Eye'' and '' Disturbia'', writing the updated screenplay. Ellsworth worked from a story written by Jeremy Passmore. Vincent Newman ('' A Man Apart'') was announced as the producer. Australian Chris Hemsworth was cast in a lead role: other cast members include Josh Peck, Adrianne Palicki, Josh Hutcherson, Isabel Lucas,

, and Connor Cruise.

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began September 2009 in

. The closed Notre Dame High School in

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(

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) was used as a filming location. Mark Binelli, author of '' Detroit City is the Place to Be'', wrote that the school cafeteria was used as the catering hall for the employees. According to photographs taken on set, the film features propaganda pamphlets, posters, and banners featuring

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symbols, such as the

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star. The posters attempt to garner support for a Chinese occupation, with slogans such as ''"Rebuilding Your Reputation"'', ''"Repairing Your Economy"'', and ''"Fighting Corporate Corruption"''.{{cite news, url=http://news.ifeng.com/mil/3/200909/0930_341_1371284.shtml, title=Hollywood remake of Cold War epic film, with strong drama depicting a Chinese "invasion of the United States", last=Xiao, first=Dazhong, date=September 30, 2009, publisher=

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News, language=zh, access-date=October 10, 2009 In June 2010, release of the film was delayed by MGM's financial difficulties. The delay came amid growing controversy in China after excerpts of the script were leaked on the website ''The Awl''. The film drew sharp criticism from the ''

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'', one of the leading Chinese state-run newspapers, with headlines such as "U.S. reshoots Cold War movie to demonize China" and "American movie plants hostile seeds against China". One of the articles stated: "China can still feel U.S. distrust and fear, especially among its people. Americans' suspicions about China are the best ground for the hawks to disseminate fear and doubt, which is the biggest concern with the movie, ''Red Dawn''." In January 2011, the first cast photo was released along with news that MGM would release the film once their

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restructuring is completed. ''Red Dawn'' was one of three already completed MGM projects scheduled to be released in 2011.{{cite web, url=http://www.dailyblam.com/news/2011/01/03/new-cast-photo-release-info-for-red-dawn-remake-starring-chris-hemsworth-jeffrey-dea, title=New Cast Photo & Release Info for RED DAWN Starring Chris Hemsworth & Jeffrey Dean Morgan, author=Pietro Filipponi, work=The Daily Blam!, date=January 3, 2011, access-date=January 4, 2011 In March 2011, the ''

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'' reported that MGM changed the villains in its ''Red Dawn'' remake from Chinese to North Korean in order to maintain access to China's lucrative box office. The changes reportedly cost less than $1 million and involve changing an opening sequence summarizing the story's fictional backdrop (dropping the original storyline of Chinese "

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" after the US defaults on loans for a North Korean invasion), re-editing two scenes, and using digital technology to change Chinese symbols and dialogue to Korean. The film's producer Trip Vinson stated: "We were initially very reluctant to make any changes, but after careful consideration we constructed a way to make a scarier, smarter and more dangerous ''Red Dawn'' that we believe improves the movie."{{cite news, url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-china-red-dawn-20110316,0,995726.story , title=Reel China: Hollywood tries to stay on China's good side , author1=Fritz, Ben , author2=Horn, John , name-list-style=amp , work=

, date=March 16, 2011 , access-date=March 16, 2011

Soundtrack

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, cover = , caption = , alt = , released = {{Start date, 2012, 11, 19 , recorded = , venue = , studio = , genre =

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, producer = Ramin Djawadi , prev_title =

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composed the score to the film.{{cite web, title=Red Dawn by Ramin Djawadi, website=

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Track listing

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Release

In September 2011, it was reported that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was finalizing a deal with the independent studio FilmDistrict to distribute the film in the United States.{{cite news, url=https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2011/09/red-dawn-remake-to-come-out-next-year-from-filmdistrict.html , title='Red Dawn' remake to come out next year from FilmDistrict , author1=Fritz, Ben , author2=Horn, John , name-list-style=amp , work=

, date=September 26, 2011 , access-date=September 27, 2011 In December 2011, FilmDistrict reached a deal to distribute its 2012 films including ''Red Dawn'' through

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. In September 2012, it was announced that the film would premiere on September 27, 2012, at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in

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, closing out the

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film festival. ''Red Dawn'' opened in theaters in the United States on November 21, 2012. The film earned $7.4 million in its first two days and finished in seventh place, earning $14.6 million in its first weekend. The film closed in theaters on February 21, 2013, grossing a total $50.9 million worldwide. ''Red Dawn'' was released on DVD and Blu-ray on March 5, 2013, by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.

Reception

{{As of, June 2020, on

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the film has an approval rating of 14% based on 141 reviews and an

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score of 3.88/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "The rebooted ''Red Dawn'' lacks the original's topicality, but at least pays tribute in delivering the same short shrift to character development and general logic." On

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the film has a score of 31 out of 100 based on 33 reviews, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". The film earned a Razzie Award nomination for Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-off or Sequel.

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of ''

'' said, "An already silly premise is given a ham-fisted treatment in this ill-advised remake of John Milius' 1984 hit action film".

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of ''

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'' said, "Bradley... handles the low-fi action well, which helps divert attention from the bargain-bin special effects, bad acting and politics". Mark Olsen of the ''

'' said, "Reasonably dopey fun on its own, the remade ''Red Dawn'' simply can't stand up to the real-world issues it steps on like a land mine".

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of the ''

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'' said, "The story's time frame is confusingly murky. How long does it take the North Koreans to land... and start running things? What is their game plan? Is this a national invasion? We're unclear what's happening in the rest of the United States".

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'' wrote, " hebattle scenes are infused with a propulsive sense of urgency, as Bradley (a vet stunt coordinator and second unit director) often achieves an effective semi-documentary look".{{cite news , last=Leydon , first=Joe , date=September 27, 2012 , title=Red Dawn , url=https://www.variety.com/review/VE1117948435/ , work=

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