Red Dawn remake (2010), a few of the cast and crew members

There has been a lot of talk about MGM's plans to remake the classic cult action movie Red Dawn (1984), that starred Patrick Swayze, Lea Thompson, and Charlie Sheen. MGM's idea for this new remake is to make it more gritty and realistic, using more shaky cam's and other things like that. The studio has hired Carl Ellsworth to write the script; the writer of Disturbia (2007) and The Last House on the Left (2009). They've also hired Dan Bradley to the direct the film, who has been the assistant director of many films, including Quantum of Solace, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, The Bourne Ultimatum, and Spiderman 2 & 3. It is a pretty impressive combination, and it gives me high hopes for Red Dawn (2010).  I personally only saw the old movie just recently and thought it was really powerful and well made but lacked the epic scale I was looking for in a movie like that. In the new film I'm looking forward to a more believable and better action. Let's just hope MGM works wonders with this remake, or people start asking why it was even made at all. 

Some of the cast members have already been chosen as well. Apparently 

Chris Hemsworth will be playing the role of Jed Eckhert, Patrick Swayze's character

in the original film.  Hemsworth is also said to be

playing the part of Thor in the upcoming comic book adaptation, Thor. If you don't know who Chris Hemsworth is, if you saw the new movie Star Trek, he was Captain Kirk's father who died in the first 10 minutes 

of the film. The brother of Jed Eckhert, Matt Eckhert (Charlie Sheen in the original), will be played by Josh Peck. Adrianne Palicki will play Jennifer Grey's character, Toni Mason.