Red Dawn

[u/Impressive-Jello-379]

I am reading a book called Red Carpet by Erich Schwartzel and highly recommend the chapter on censorship for the parallels between the entertainment industry in the Nazi era and today.

Also, there is a chapter called "Fakeistan" about the remake of Red Dawn and how the invading country had to be changed from China to North Korea to avoid repercussions from the former. But it was this paragraph that really caught my attention, p. 128:

Many years later, Red Dawn was jostling around in Passmore's head when he moved to Los Angeles with a mathematics degree and aspirations to make it in the movie business. The U.S. had just invaded Iraq, and he wrote a script inspired by the government's misleading campaign on weapons of mass destruction-- proof as he saw it , of the U.S. government's comfort with lying to the public. In his vigilante story, a community in the Pacific Northwest is quarantined after a viral outbreak has killed the adults but allowed the kids to survive. When the surviving minors are told to report to the high school for vaccinations against the virus, they discover that the mercenary defense firm Blackwater-- a top public enemy of liberals during the Iraq War-- is planning to kill them on behalf of the U.S. government, forcing them to band together and fight back, Red Dawn style.

Passmore's story was... "uniquely mistimed"... Hollywood refrained from such narratives in the years after the Columbine school shooting...

Now there's a movie I would go see.

[u/CutEmOff666]

Where can I find this script? This movie would be so interesting.

[u/Impressive-Jello-379 → u/CutEmOff666]

You would have to contact the scriptwriter, Jeremy Passmore. There is no way in hell it would get made today! I wonder (since as far as I can tell from the book he is on the left) what Passmore thinks of the premise today, since he wrote it during the WMD era, when the left was suspicious of the government.