Director's assistant Jennifer Eddy wrote a letter to The Detroit News to thank Detroit for a wonderful filming experience:

"I was less than thrilled when I heard we would be shooting "Red Dawn" in Detroit as result of Michigan's film incentive program, and I couldn't have been more wrong. Instead of all the bad press that I have read and heard about, I found a fantastic, if somewhat challenged, city that is full of generous and kind people who have a great work ethic and an ingenuity to make more out of less."

[detnews.com]