Red Dawn remake

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Yeah, I'm just not interested, not even with Chris H. in it.
 

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I saw the original and have no interest in seeing this one.
 

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Heard a radio review that said it was made quite awhile ago and shelved. The original invading country was China, but for reasons unrevealed they switched it to North Korea, played with certain details (CGI?), and released it.

I'd love to know the back-room reasons for not changing the villain.

Not seeing it, here. I disliked the original, so no reason to see the remake.
 

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Lily - From the scuttlebutt I heard, they changed the villain from China because they hoped to be able to sell the movie TO China. And the Chinese were a little pissed about being the bad guys.
 

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*snerk* But since China's friendly with NK, do the filmmakers hope China will buy the movie so they can point and laugh and go "Neener! Pretty US white boys kicked your butts!"
 

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I saw the original. If they were going to remake and update it, they should have gone all the way and set it in Afganistan. Or Iran. Okay, they don't have American football, but the teens could have been soccer players or cricketers.