The Red Dawn is rising over Duplicity writer/director Tony Gilroy who is now set to rewrite MGM’s remake of the ‘80s cult classic.

The original followed the scrappy insurgency of a group of Midwestern teenagers who take on their high school mascot name as a rallying cry of resistance against Soviet and Cuban forces that have invaded the States.

Gilroy is best known for writing the Bourne series. He performed a similar rewrite operation on the recent remake of British mini-series State of Play.