haha, a remake of Red Dawn,
very nice. will the russians speak spanish again?
like in the original?
haha, so funny.

the Spanish in the original made sense because they were using South American troops for the invasion. Russian was used for the support troops sent from Russia.

Only plausible premise for a modern retelling of Total Recall would be if China literally called in all its markers on U.S. debt and decided to literally take over instead of financially ruin the U.S. and itself, and then outsources the managerial/security duties to a cast strapped Russia, eastern europe and South America.

Anyone hoping such a xenophobic and economically illiterate hypothesis is mitigated through a Starship Troopers (movie) style satirical tone?

Who's talking about a remake of Total Recall? I'd rather see that than have them ruin Red Dawn.

This is one of my favorite movies of all time and if they set it in the present day with the Chinese as the main villains it will be completely ruined. If it is to work it will have to be an alternative history film, set right back in the '80s again with the same premise as the original. Even then, it has little chance of being even slightly politically relevant today. Hollywood is just too cowardly to make the obvious update to this film that so desperately DOES need to be made.

"Total Recall"? Huh? I meant "Red Dawn." Can't think this early.

I also loved the movie as a kid but it really is extremely implausible. I would think the most likely (however unlikely) scenario would be a sympathetic group of insurgents fighting a totalitarian US regime. Of course that alters the whole tone of the movie...

Well I know its only a movie but I wouldn't say it's not totally an implausible scenario. There are certainly some who think the world would be better off without America in it and if anyone had the military might and man power to pull it off it would be Russia\China.

just go and boycott all YARM ;like me.
i have no time to waste on YET ANOTHER REMAKE

Red Dawn = Red Fail!

First, the Spanish speaking troops were Cuban.

Second, it makes no sense for the Chinese to invade the U.S. Why? They own most of the U.S. debt! If they wanted to hurt the U.S., they could just call in all of their loans or refuse to buy any more U.S. debt. Furthermore, the U.S. buoys the Chinese economy by buying Chinese goods.

As others have said, it's more likely that some Right-wing extremist caused a Civil War than the U.S. any kind war with China.

Epic FAIL!

WTF? This film is a product of the Cold War and the impending collapse of the Soviet Union. It doesn't translate to today. Ask our kids, whom we made watch it (the original). They just didn't get why we thought it was so scary. What are they going to do to make it relevant to today? Rewrite it so that global warming is the enemy?

The Koreans Are Coming !!!! Ahhhhhhhhgh! their little 3 megaton bombs are going to make the United States a Parkinglot!!! Run for the hills! Wolverines!!!

Ok on a side note this is a great way to waste production money. You are willing to remake Red Dawn but you can't help Jericho get back on the air?? I tried to re watch the Patrick Swayze vehicle and realised this movie sucked even as bad as Battle Beyond The Stars.

I thought the original was pretty good. It shows what can happen when American become decadent and apathetic. There are two ways this movie should have been re-made:
1. The current plot. The Russian/Chinese alliance isn't so far fetched. Let's face it, Putin in old school Communist so a movie that shows Russia returning to a Communist government isn't so far fetched. Plus, those two usually team up together (sometimes with the French) to frustrate the West in the UN so again, a combined military operation with them isn't far fetched.
2. More plausible and to update the story, don't use Russians. Show America being invaded by Iran and their North Korean allies. The Iranians destabilize the US with a relentless series of terrorist attacks in the wake of the closing of the terrorist detention center at Guantanamo paving the way for the North Koreans to invade. A group of young resistance fighters rise up .....

This is insane - the original is bad (though campy), but to have the Chinese and Russians as allies is ridiculous. First, the Chinese and Russians despise one another due to historic conflicts (and only made worse as they compete for Central Asian oil). The only way this makes sense is if one had conquered another, which means there had already been nuclear war in Asia and I doth believe we would have taken an interest on that front.

Does anyone write anything original now? Or is the American marketplace become this easily fooled?

A few things. First, is this sci fi?

Second, what is this about Spokane? Isn't the original set in the Rockies? I thought the coasts were immediately overrun and the battle lines stabilized along the Rockies, the Appalachians and northern Texas? The Wolverines were behind enemy lines because Spetsnaz and other Cuban special forces were seizing the mountain passes.

Third, Russia and China still don't possess the airlift and sealift capabilities to to project power across the ocean. It was far fetched in the original during the bipolar world of the Cold War. Now its just insulting.

Again goes to show hollywood does not have many original bones left. Lets remake this and that and not come up with anything original and by the way lets screw up the remakes and changes story lines while we're at. Again i say i've written better stories on toilet paper.

Ugh!

If you're going to remake 80s movies, why not remake something that was terrible in the first place and try and make it better.

Might I suggest:

Howard the Duck
Willow
Krull
Flash Gordon
Masters of the Universe
Megaforce
Starhunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone

Wait. On second thought. How about NOT remaking any of those movies (except maybe Howard the Duck).

While the idea of a Russia-China alliance is hardly preposterous (google "Yekaterinburg bric", they're already meeting to "challenge" America), the idea that they would actually invade the U.S. right now most certainly is preposterous. They don't need to. China can pretty much own, through contract, anything they might take by force. If they wanted to destroy us, they could just dump all their treasuries at once (it wouldn't hurt them as much as people think). And the Russians clearly understand that the collapse of our military empire will quickly follow the collapse of our financial empire. It's much cheaper for them now to merely sidestep us.

This only worked as a cold war movie and has no basis in this era. Except in the context of an internal revolution, as others had mentioned. Gun sales aren't going through the roof right now because of a fear of foreigners. It's out of fear of their own government (I know, I live in Red Dawn country). Why can't they just stop with the remakes already? This has been the worst 5-year period for movies EVER!

I don't mind a remake of Red Dawn, but the Cold War is history, and there is no plausible scenario of the US being invaded buy Russia or China. China was an ally in the original film, and the Russians, and Leftists South Americans were the invaders. The Wolverines had to go Arab on their asses.

The could do something unoriginal, like a US insurgency against Aliens or Robots, but that is over done already.

There could be an anti-gov conspiracy against a Fascists US gov, but that is too politically sensitive, and Obama in the WH. (V for Vendetta like) .

You could have sort of Global Anti US invasion, where the US has imploded, Mad Max style, and the rest of the world is coming over to pick over our carcass.

All that said, their current ideas, have no hope of being good, or appealing.

The first movie was entirely woven in the fears of the Cold War, and the reason the U.S. was invaded by Russia basically came down to in the movie, and I'm paraphrasing, as the two biggest kids on the block, sooner or later they're going to fight.

Well Russia's not so much the big kid anymore, and America's current wars are with fighting terrorism in the Middle East, which is made up of a much smaller group that isn't going to be making a large scale invasion of anything anytime soon.

Great movie, but it is now and will always only be an 80's movie.

A more plausible story would be China supplying a large amount of arms (copies of Russian Su27 Flankers etc) very cheaply to Mexico in exchange for exclusive access to Mexican oil.

Mexico, and a confederacy of other like minded South American countries then invade a cash strapped USA, already fighting wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and the new front against North Korea. Their goal is to take back Texas for the oil and California to stop Hollywood from remaking bad movies from the past..

josh peck...no thanks..only if he gains the weight back

What is it with all these remakes of movies I saw when I was a teenager?? Red Dawn, Clash of the Titans & even Total Recall which ONLY came out in 1990!! What's next...Star Wars episode IV??

I guess that's the first sign of getting old(er), seeing movies from you childhood being remade.

It shouldn't be remade.... For its time it was a great movie.

Here's an alternative: the new Axis of Evil work together and set off a EMP high above the US, which fries all of our electronics (it would only take 20 minutes after a launch for that to be accomplished). Without power, food distribution, and the other things everyone takes for granted, the US collapses into chaos (and soon most city folks begin to starve). Then the larger enemies of the US invade with all their working gear and take on the Americans who are left standing. It turns out that the Russians, Chinese or whoever (larger enemies) were the ones who funded the terrorists, so that if their plot failed, they could deny any involvement. Unlikely? Yes. The truth is often stranger than fiction. But this possibility is much more likely today than the old cold war version.

It is interesting that people don't realize how fragile our system really is. I spent 13 weeks in the Congo, and it was really eye opening. Regarding China and Russia, they're slowly gaining control of all major resources. Our largest oil producer, Exxon, doesn't even rank among the top 15 when it comes to how much oil reserves they hold. We're losing our basic industries and we produce hardly any engineers at all. Regardless of what really happens, we have a hard path ahead.

Just don't remake Red Dawn - do something different...