Jed Eckert is a marines soldier visiting his police officer father and football playing younger brother Matt. All seems well in their normal American town before the blackout. There is a sudden mass powercut across a large chunk of the country and before long, a squadron of aircrafts fill the sky with hundreds of North Korean soldiers parachuting from them. It's an invasion rendering the country powerless and under the threat of a powerful weapon that the Korean government has somehow obtained. Jed and Matt's father order them to hide out in a small cabin that they own in the wilderness; they do so and gather a group of likeminded teenagers along the way. Their father gets captured by the military forces while they hide and he uses a megaphone to bravely tell his sons to kill the soldiers holding him prisoner and he is subsequently shot and killed. The teenagers later find the cabin has been torched and Jed vows to fight back. The others join him and call themselves the Wolverines after their high school mascot. They make plans, along with experienced American soldiers, to steal back the weapon and win back their homeland.
This epic war action movie is based on the 1984 movie of the same name directed and co-written by John Milius ('Conan the Barbarian', 'Apocalypse Now', 'Magnum Force'). Directing this re-make is action expert Dan Bradley in his directorial debut having previously worked as stunt coordinator on 'Independence Day', 'Donnie Darko', 'Spider-Man 2' and 'The Bourne Supremacy'. Red Dawn is set for release in the US on November 21st 2012.
Directed by: Dan Bradley
Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Josh Peck, Josh Hutcherson, Adrianne Palicki, Isabel Lucas, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Connor Cruise, Brett Cullen, Michael Beach, Kenneth Choi, Edwin Hodge, Alyssa Diaz, Will Yun Lee, Matt Gerald and Ron Yuan