MGM is assembling its cast for the "Red Dawn" remake and has cast Josh Hutcherson, Isabel Lucas, Connor Cruise and Edwin Hodge in addition to Chris Hemsworth, Josh Peck and Adrianne Palicki.

The Hollywood Reporter reports that the remake of the 1984 action film will tell of a group of teenagers who form an insurgency when their town is invaded by Chinese and Russian soldiers.

Dan Bradley is directing from a screenplay by Jeremy Passmore and Carl Ellsworth.