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Just like his BFF Will Smith, Tom Cruise hires his son, Connor (because who else will?) to do one of his bombbuster movies according to
The Hollywood Reporter. Tom’s production company United Artists is destroying the 1984 classic movie Red Dawn so much so that he is giving his son a role in it.
Josh Hutcherson will play Robert, originated by C. Thomas Howell, and become the group’s tech geek. Isabell Lucas is Erica, head cheerleader and the Josh Peck character’s girlfriend whom he desperately hopes to spring from an internment camp. Lea Thompson played the character in the original.
Cruise is playing Daryl, the son of Spokane’s mayor and Robert’s best friend. And Hodge will play Danny, the coolest kid in school and star wide receiver who helps establish the resistance.
They join Chris Hemsworth, Josh Peck and Adrianne Palicki in the revamp of the 1984 action movie about a group of teenagers who form an insurgency when their town is invaded — this time by Chinese and Russian soldiers.
The latest not needed remake begins production next month in Detroit and is due out next year on September 10th. I know what I and many other people won’t be doing on that day, seeing that movie.
