Remakes: Dawn + Tron
 | Author: Jauretsi | Posted: February 5th, 2010 | Filed under: Film | | Comments Off |
On our last “remakes” post, (Clash of the Remakes), we covered ground on the new Clash of the Titans and Prisoner TV series and the new blood filling in old boots. Anyway, the remakes keep coming and coming… Here’s the new batch of castings for the regurgitated flicks.
Both films were 80′s classics — Red Dawn (1984) and Tron (1982).
If you’ve never seen Red Dawn, it was the classic “boy crush” film… one of my childhood favorites for sentimental reasons. John Milius wrote the Cold-War drama, and had intended it to be a deeper statement on the futility of war, illustrating the build up of revolutionary fever turning into a killing insurgency group. A militaristic “David vs Goliath”, if you will. Of course, his script got hijacked and converted into a shallow action film with lots of explosions blowing up the Russians. Hey, it was the Cold War Reagan era!
In the original storyline, the Russians joined forces with the Cubans to attack the United States — prompting World War III. In this 2010 remake, it’s the Chinese that invade the United States. Creepy twist, huh? I wonder how this film will play out in China.
Here’s the cast breakdown:
Chris Hemsworth as lead Jed Eckert (Patrick Swayze’s old role), Josh Peck (in Charlie Sheen’s old role), Adrianne Palicki (in Jennifer Grey’s old role)
Josh Hutcherson (C. Thomas Howell’s old role). Connor Cruise, son of Tom Cruise (Darrne Dalton’s old role). Isabel Lucas of Transformers (Lea Thompson’s old role). Edwin Hodge (Brad Savage’s old role).
Red Dawn is set for release for Sept 2010.
Then there’s Tron Legacy. The technology is going to be strong on this remake. The original film pushed all sorts of boundaries for effects and imagination. It was also probably the first co-branded “marriage” of movie and video game. Admittedly, I was the Tron junkie at the arcade. Ahhh, I miss arcades! Joust, Frogger, Tron. I miss them all.
Anyway, Jeff Bridges starred as the young protagonist in the original 1982 film. In Tron Legacy, actor Garret Hedlund plays Sam Flynn, the tech-savvy 27-year-old son of Kevin Flynn (played by Jeff Bridges).
The son looks into his father’s disappearance and finds himself pulled into the digital world of Tron where his father has been living for 25 years. Together, they embark on a life-and-death journey of escape across a visually-stunning and exceedingly dangerous cyber universe.
Other actors appearing in the new Tron Legacy are: Michael Sheen, Olivia Wilde, and John Hurt.
(A young Jeff Bridges in the 1982 classic)
(Jeff Bridges plays the father role in the 2010 version)
(Garrett Hedlund plays Sam Flynn, son of Jeff Bridge’s character, Kevin Flynn)
(Olivia Wilde set to star in the new Tron Legacy)
Tron Legacy will hit U.S. theaters Dec. 17, 2010. Another footnote, Daft Punk is said to be scoring all the music for the new Tron. Let’s pray to the Lord that the studio doesn’t mess this one up.
