They are remaking Red Dawn as well.
"They" (whoever "they" is) must be anticipating complete suspension of disbelief.
Red Dawn came out in 1984, during the height of the Reagan "tear down that wall/waning days of the cold war" era. I.e., Russia was still a real potential threat, so the premise of them backing an invasion of the U.S. along with South American revolutionaires was plausible enough to sell to audiences.
But that era is long gone, and the definition of "threat" changed in a single defining moment in late 2001.
So who is going to be the "red bogeyman" now?
China.
One problem: They hold too much of our national debt and depend upon us too much as an export market - invading and terrorizing the U.S (and rendering it unproductive and bereft) is absolutely the last thing they'd want to do.
Producers should stick to the tried-and-true
credible post 9/11 villians: middle eastern fanatics (
True Lies is an excellent example) or various forms of Eastern-European terrorists or South American drug lords (
Die Hard has built a franchise off this).
But whatever, shooting of the
Red Dawn remake is already complete. And given the pictures of some of the sets in it below, I can't wait for the inevitable
Youtube mashup versions! They'll take these images (and the scenes of ragged citizens behind barbed wire in "re-education camps") and go down the path of "
Here's a preview of the America Move On.org has planned for you."
remaking Overboard??? 
