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Jeffrey Dean Morgan Joins Red Dawn, Wants Lobo

Source:Silas Lesnick
September 14, 2009


Jeffrey Dean Morgan is a very, very busy man. Having shot the thriller The Resident earlier this year, Dean Morgan moved immediately into production of the DC/Vertigo comic book adaptation The Losers, currently shooting in Puerto Rico. Now word comes from the actor himself that he'll be taking a role in the upcoming remake of the 1984 John Milius cult classic, Red Dawn.

"I'm jumping back in," Dean Morgan reveals to ComingSoon.net, " I go to work on something about ten days after I've finished shooting ['The Losers']... It's a remake of a movie that I love... 'Red Dawn.' I just love that f**king movie, ever since I was a kid."

Red Dawn, slated to start shooting soon in Detroit, MI, takes place in an alternate reality where the United States has fallen to the forces of communism and focuses on a group of high school students who form a militant band to fight back.

"I guess I'm more or less the old Powers Booth character," says Dean Morgan of his role, "There's all the kids and Powers Booth is the pilot that lands in the film and kind of helps them take down the bad guys. Blow communism away. It's a really good, young cast. I'll be the old guy in it, which is cool."

The currently-announced cast includes Chris Hemsworth, Josh Peck, Adrianne Palicki, Josh Hutcherson, Isabel Lucas, Connor Cruise and Edwin Hodge with second-unit director Dan Bradley stepping up to the full director's chair for the first time.

"He's the real deal," says Dean Morgan of Bradley, "A real good action director and apparently a really good, stylized director with actors anyway. I'm very much looking forward to it."

Red Dawn is currently slated for a September 2010 release.

Jeffrey also told us of his desire to star in Guy Ritchie's adaptation of the DC Comics title Lobo, which you can read about here!

COMMENTS (11)

Posted by:
Chaos
September 14, 2009
He could make an awesome Lobo.
Posted by:
Randy Fulcher
September 14, 2009
R D, starting to look promising.
Posted by:
Andrew
September 14, 2009
I really hope he makes time to do one last guest appearence on Supernatural, if this is the final season.
Posted by:
Joe
September 14, 2009
So, we got another Ryan Reynolds, wants to play a 3rd comic book character
Posted by:
Tyler Perry is the anti-christ
September 14, 2009
I love Adrianne!

Uber-Hotness.
Posted by:
Sebastian
September 14, 2009
Seems promising,
Posted by:
The Burn
September 14, 2009
Hell yeah! Morgan is the man since his amazing job as John Winchester.
Totally want to see more of him. Red Dawn is one of my all time favorites and now with Morgan on board for the remake, I'm pretty sure it's gonna be awesome!
Posted by:
That 80s guy
September 14, 2009
The original Red Dawn was set up perfectly because we were still at Cold War with the Russians. Today it is so irrelevant, and this subject I think is only going to be sort insulting to Russian audiences. I just do not think this film is going to work today and the original in my opinion was ok, but I was lucky I could sit thru the original. I can see the remake bomb.
Posted by:
Edward Tudor
September 14, 2009
Red Dawn is a politically charged peice of crappy propaganda. I can't believe they're reamking it, talking all these paranoia bull****.
But Lobo's cool. Morgan suits it well. Look forward to it
Posted by:
Billy Butcher
September 14, 2009
Your stock is rising JDM.

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