Tensions build as the teens try to decide whether to surrender to the invaders or resist, with Pete ending up betraying their position. They are joined there by Robert Kitner, Daryl Jenkins, Danny Jackson, siblings Julie and Greg Goodyear, and Pete, and later by Toni Erica is captured by the North Koreans. Their father tells them to flee to their cabin in the woods while he helps the townspeople. The morning after a mysterious power outage, Jed and Matt are shocked to see swarms of invading North Korean paratroopers and transport aircraft. 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. Marine Jed Eckert is home on leave in Spokane, Washington. troops abroad leaves the mainland vulnerable, and American infrastructure is increasingly vulnerable to the threat of a cyberattack.
The film is also a box-office failure, grossing $50.9 million from its $65 million budget.Īn introductory montage shows the fallout of an economic crisis in the European Union and a weakened NATO alliance, amid collaborative dealings between a progressively militant North Korea, now led by the young Kim Jong Un, and ultranationalist-dominated Russia. īecause of MGM's bankruptcy, the distribution rights were sold to FilmDistrict in September 2011 and the film was released in the United States on Novemto mostly negative reviews. While in post-production, 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. Originally scheduled to be released on November 24, 2010, the film was shelved because of MGM's financial troubles.
The principal characters were cast the following year and the film went into production in September 2009 in Mount Clemens, Michigan. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer announced its intention to remake Red Dawn in May 2008 and subsequently hired Bradley and Ellsworth. The film centers on a group of young people who defend their hometown from a North Korean invasion. The film stars Chris Hemsworth, Josh Peck, Josh Hutcherson, Adrianne Palicki, Isabel Lucas, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan. It is a remake of the 1984 film of the same name.
Red Dawn is a 2012 American action film directed by Dan Bradley and written by Carl Ellsworth and Jeremy Passmore.