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mahatmakanejeeves

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Sat Feb 5, 2022, 08:26 AM Feb 2022

How China's Growing Clout Led Hollywood to Look for a New Villain [View all]

Wolverines!



(MGM Studios)

Found at: https://www.military.com/off-duty/movies/2017/03/29/8-things-you-probably-never-knew-about-red-dawn.html

When MGM decided to reboot ‘Red Dawn’ decades after the Cold War, the most obvious Communist aggressor was China. That proved to be a costly miscalculation.



How China’s Growing Clout Led Hollywood to Look for a New Villain
When MGM started work on a reboot of ‘Red Dawn,’ China was the obvious aggressor. By the time the movie was shot, that decision represented political
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