Blooming heck, I finally found you lot.
The long walk for me was sure long!!
MEGA NEWS
Danny Cannon is working on a director's cut of Judge Dredd. It is set to be released in early 2003.
According to aint it cool news this is true.
Check out the site for more info.
So here's to the return of I am the Lawhhhhhhhh!
scojo back for more....
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At ease Cadets,
Just like a number 77 hoverbus you wait ages for one an as soon as it turns up so does another. In the same vein we wait ages for news of a Dredd movie and we reported on Dredd movie news yeaterday and today we have more movie news.
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Tuesday October 23 5:10 AM ET
Judge Dredd courts new film deal
HOLLYWOOD (Variety) - Comic book publisher 2000 AD has signed a deal to produce two movies based on its character Judge Dredd, the heroic lawkeeper of a 22nd century metropolis whose mantra is ``I am the Law.''
The Dredd character was previously adapted for the screen in the 1995 film ``Judge Dredd,'' starring Sylvester Stallone, which flopped at the box office.
The first picture under 2000 AD's pact with independent producer Shoreline Entertainment will be ``Judge Dredd: Dredd Reckoning.''
The project, which will see the hero losing confidence in the corrupt legal system, will be shot back-to-back with the second picture under the deal, ``Judge Dredd: Possession,'' in which Dredd has to face up to the moral dilemma of having to kill his partner when she is possessed by Judge Death.
``We are reinventing the franchise by taking it back to the edge and style of the original comicbook,'' said Shoreline principal Morris Ruskin, who will serve as a producer.
``This is a great time for movies about superheroes,'' said his Shoreline partner, Vicki Pike, ``and there are thousands of Judge Dredd stories, so there is endless material available to work with. It will also be easier to brand the movies by presenting them back-to-back.''
Reuters/Variety REUTERS
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read it for yourself at:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011023/en/film-dredd_1.html
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W. R. Logan.
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Sounds cool news.
I will write the screenplays.
I am cheaper than Garth after all...
scojo
Ultimate necro post!*
Has ANY news come out since this initial announcement? Is there to be a Dredd movie or not?
* Just did a bit of a search to see if there was anything substantial. Then thought it'd be nice to have a troll-by-troll comparison. ;)
Altogether now!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! (the directors cut)
and a tenuous
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY on the new Dredd film(s)
If they can do a good job with X-Men they can do it with Dredd.
(Don't mention the hulk. let's stay optimistic.)
The project, which will see the hero losing confidence in the corrupt legal system, will be shot back-to-back with the second picture under the deal, ``Judge Dredd: Possession,'' in which Dredd has to face up to the moral dilemma of having to kill his partner when she is possessed by Judge Death.
Or maybe NNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! for those synopsyseseses.(sp)
Not nessaarily. A good crisis of faith is always good to watch.
Who's gonna play Dredd?
Any speculations?
My vote still goes to Hugo Weaving.
Robert Patrick?
Oh and Mongo- start taking your meds again- you've signed with the wrong name you incompetent nob...
Aren't they both a bit little and skinny? I know that it's best to steer away from the action hero (Stallone, say no more) but there should be some sort of physical presence there. I mean as hard as he is Hugo Weaving looks like a geek in The Matrix.
I was kidding. Mongo has a Robert Patrick fetish- and his playing the role of Dredd was the subject one of Mongo's many obsessions. About a hundred posts, if memory serves.
There's an interesting chatlog I can point you to if you want. You can almost feel the sanity falling away beneath your feet as you read. Really quite spectacular.
Matt
I heard they were going to cast an unknown so that the helmet could stay on.
Why the hell don't they get John Wagner to write a script? Personally, I don't want to see a back to back Dredd film, the synopsis that I've read of them suggests alot of helmetless action and a load of mushy-mushy shite with Hershey! Please grud, let this film do the character justice!
Better off doing a Strontium Dog movie.
Wake - is there any way of removing Scojo's posts from my message history?
I only wanted to seed what it would say if I changed my name to a banned username! I wasn't expecting this!
Personally, I still don't understand why they're doing two movies, unless they're both going straight to video. Surely, they should pool their resources, and make one decent film? Also, I sincerely hope the synopsis for the first film has totally changed, as it's pretty much the same as the Stallone film. If Dredd loses faith in the system, no-one will care. It was a shock after *several years* of law enforcement in 2000 AD, but no-one will care after 20 minutes of cinema "action". I still say start with some general Dredd head-busting, thendo the original Death story, and maybe mix it in with the Four Judges arc in the last act.
So, it looks like no actual news on whether Shoreline are actually doing anything with this.
Which leads to a further question: have they paid for exclusive movie rights? Could Rebellion sell rights to another company? Or anime rights or TV rights, for that matter? After all, Buffy the Vampire Layer was a terrible film but a great TV show. And the Beeb's digging out Dr Who again...
Will we see a Judge Dredd animated serires in the vein of X-men evolution? I sure do hope so
I could reassign all messages in the database which are appear to be from you but have 'scojo' in the message body. Would that do?
Wake
Bone Machine - it may be better just to re-register using a slightly different user name - like "BoneMachine" (no spaces)?
I so second that!!!!!
Will
'I could reassign all messages in the database which are appear to be from you but have 'scojo' in the message body. Would that do?'
Would they be deleted, or archived somewhere? Only people still seem interested in reading them.
I have in my power to erase Scojo from history - do I have the right?
reassign means move, not delete.
Wake
Do it, then - he seems to have signed most of his stuff, anyway.
Thanks, Wake.