'Red Dawn' Gets a Friday Night Lighter and a Wackness
In case you missed it, Red Dawn, the 1984 film that helped us to realize that Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen, and Jennifer Grey are our only true defense against the Communist hordes, is being remade. I'm sorry, but you just need to hurry up and accept that, because now there's also some casting news you need to swallow:
Josh Peck and Adrianne Palicki have been cast in MGM/UA's remake of "Red Dawn," set to begin filming in September. They join the already cast Chris Hemsworth in the story of a group of teenagers who form an impromptu insurgency when their town is invaded by Chinese and Russian soldiers.Peck will play Matt Eckert -- the role originated by Charlie Sheen -- the hotheaded younger brother of Hemsworth's Jed Eckert and star quarterback of their Spokane high school football team. Palicki will play Toni, the role first inhabited by Jennifer Grey. She's a tough fighter the brothers encounter who develops romantic feelings for Jed, a Marine home on leave and the group's unofficial leader.
Adrianne Palicki as Jennifer Grey and Josh Peck as Charlie Sheen? I guess I can believe that. By which I mean I can see Palicki ruining her career with plastic surgery and Peck becoming two-fifths of an all-male household and the butt of prostitution monologue jokes.
(Thanks, Jake.)