‘Red Dawn’ Gains a Comedian

From ‘Watchmen’ to Wolverines, it appears Jeffrey Dean Morgan will be joining the cast of the upcoming ‘Red Dawn’ remake.  He told as such to Coming Soon.  Morgan will be joining a cast that already includes Chris Hemsworth, Josh Peck, Adrianne Palicki, Josh Hutcherson, Isabel Lucas, Connor Cruise and Edwin Hodge.  Dan Bradley, second unit director on films like ‘Swordfish,’ ‘Spider-Man 2 & 3,’ and ‘Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls,’ will be stepping up into the director’s chair.

Morgan also told Coming Soon who he would be playing in the film:

I guess I’m more or less the old Powers Booth character.  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.

‘Red Dawn’ begins shooting soon in Detroit, MI with a release date of September 2010 slated.

Morgan also revealed to Coming Soon that he would like to play the lead character in Guy Ritchie’s adaptation of the DC comic ‘Lobo.’  We’ll have more word on that if anything develops.