26 years ago, the movie Red Dawn hit theaters around America. The scenario put forward in the film was one that was front and center in the minds of a population caught up in a cold war mindset: Soviet forces attempting to take over the country, starting with the invasion of a small Midwest town.
The movie starred Patrick Swayze and Charlie Sheen as two members of a teenage insurgency who take up arms against the Soviets, and went on to become a cheesy cult classic. 26 years on, Hollywood is remaking the movie, but with the Soviet Union no longer around, the makers of the film had to find another enemy capable of taking the place of America's former favorite bogeyman.
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