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Hollywood remake of Red Dawn spends $1m to change villains from Chinese to North Koreans

Daily Mail ^ | Last updated at 10:23 PM on 20th March 2011 | By Paul Thompson

Posted on by Niuhuru

"Hollywood remake of Red Dawn spends $1m to change villains from Chinese to North Koreans... so as not to offend Beijing"

Hollywood film-makers have changed the villains in a re-make of the film Red Dawn to avoid offending China and spoiling its chances of success at the box office.

The original action film starring Patrick Swayze and Charlie Sheen featured Russian troops invading America.

In the remake Chinese troops lead the invasion - but bosses at MGM studio are to spend more than $1 million on digital special effects to make it appear the invaders are from North Korea.



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The starring cast looks stupid and unrealistic.



To: Niuhuru

They evidently have no idea who their target market is... ...or was.



To: Niuhuru

The Hollywood idiots will massacre this.



by 3 posted onby headstamp 2 (The most dangerous place on the face of the earth is between a liberal and their money.)

To: Niuhuru

The North Korean INVADE America. What a laugh!



To: Niuhuru

NK’s? Really? Cubans were more believable.



To: Niuhuru

I still don’t get why China would be offended by this.



by 6 posted onby pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)

To: Niuhuru

I’m surprised they’re not dubbing in a soundtrack so that the invaders are heard speaking in the Austrian language.



To: Niuhuru

"In a further move, the studio announced they will be using puppets and animation so as not to offend actual North Koreans..."



To: Niuhuru

Stay away from Muslims, of course.



by 9 posted onby Baynative (Truth is treason in an empire of lies)

To: Niuhuru

They should use islamomaniacs....oh...wait...it’s a movie...not a documentary...



by 10 posted onby bigheadfred (THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE HAS BEGUN)

To: Niuhuru

I thought that the Chinese were on our side in that movie.



To: Niuhuru

Good call MGM... Your spinelessness just saved me $10 and a couple of hours.



by 12 posted onby ThunderSleeps (Stop obama now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)

To: Perdogg

Thanks Niuhuru.



by 13 posted onby SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)

To: Niuhuru

Not only that - old. The beauty of the original is that they were high schoolers.



by 14 posted onby svcw (Non forgiveness is like holding a hot coal thinking the other person will be blistered)

To: Niuhuru

The author of this article isn’t any too bright... the original Red Dawn movie featured in invading SOVIET army... Not Red Chinese.



by 15 posted onby TheBattman (They exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature...)

To: ThunderSleeps

“Good call MGM... Your spinelessness just saved me $10 and a couple of hours.” They could have saved the million and millions more promoting it, by just throwing it into the trash. This movie will wind up was as many viewers as there are train riders in Los Angeles.



To: Niuhuru

I was going to see it but if they are going to PC it to death then they don’t need my money and I don’t see a need to support their stupidity. I’ll stick to the original. Great job there MGM. If stupidity were painful, you guys would be in coma’s from the sheer agony.



To: Niuhuru

I’m a frequent movie-goer but I think I’ll pass on this one.



To: TheBattman

I don’t know the particular intelligence of the author, but the article states: “The original action film starring Patrick Swayze and Charlie Sheen featured Russian troops invading America. “



To: bigheadfred

Can’t use the Mexicans because they have alredy invaded.



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