'Red Dawn' Remake, Whatever... But an Aronofsky 'RoboCop' Remake?

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Red Dawn Remake News
Published 7/9/2008 by john@themovieblog.com (John Campea) at The Movie Blog
We have a new news about the Red Dawn remake. We get the following scoop from our friends at ropeofsilicon: The Hollywood Reporter has a new article talking about how Dan Bradley (who?) will direct a remake of the 1984 flick Red Dawn. Carl Ellsworth has been hired to recraft the ultimate homeland invasion story about a new generation of besieged high schoolers. In terms of the new film, Ellsworth told THR, “The tone is going to be very intense, very much keeping in mind the post-9/11 world that we’re in. As ‘Red Dawn’ ...

Could Darren Aronofsky's Batman have eclipsed Christopher Nolan's?
Published 7/11/2008 by Alex Larman at Film: Film blog | guardian.co.uk
... successful films that are also critically popular. It's too early to call him a true auteur, but his fascination with themes of doubling and trickery, often told through elliptical editing, look back to such greats as Nicolas Roeg and John Boorman. If The Dark Knight is the massive success that it's widely expected to be, he will have cemented his position at the very top of the Hollywood A-list. And as for Aronofsky? It has recently been rumoured that he's been in talks to direct another reinvention film , this time that of Robocop, which might seem redundant given the ...