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>Logan,
>Read the latest news on the films on the newsround page.
>I think it is fair to say the scripts have been written or are in the >process of being written.
>Please, someone tell me who has written them!
>I am desperate to know!
>I would love to write a Dredd screenplay.
>No hand on heart, I would write a treatment if Rebellion were interested.
>Email me.
>I have written four screenplays thus far, got the writing software, know the >format.
>scojo

Scojo,

This is a quote from Jason Kingsley reference the Dredd movie:

The initial concept lines are just that, initial 'high concepts', since they've yet to be written.  They're also aimed at the non-Dredd-knowing film community at large.

La Placa Rifa,
W. R. Logan.

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Scojo I was on about the original as you guessed as for the current movies they've yet to be written.

La Placa Rifa,
W. R. Logan.

>Has John Wagner written the original screenplay?<

I believe John & Alan did a treatment for a script, but after they discovered they wouldn't get paid for it they never submitted it.

La Placa Rifa,
W. R. Logan.

I think enough posts are going around about the movie but I recieved
one from Jason Kingsley earlier and just wanted to put one point out:

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It's early days yet, and things could fall through, but we have
high hopes.  And DREDD WILL NOT TAKE HIS HELMET OFF.

- Jason
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Lets keep our fingers crossed and look forward to 2003 and 2004

La Placa Rifa,
W. R. Logan.

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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

La Placa Rifa,
W. R. Logan.

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La Placa Rifa,
W. R. Logan.

>The award for ultimate cool image goes to the private commission of Nemesis (cant for the life of me remember who did it) shown at the V&A exhibition recently - Dark as hell itself.<

The artwork at the V&A is on loan from the private collection of Rufus Dayglo, if its his Nemesis pic thats there then its probably by:
JOHN HICKLETON

La Placa Rifa,
W. R. Logan.

Tough choice but I cant narrow it down from two images that are very predictable Dredd ones.

Block Mania - "I'm with Rowdy Yates Block who you fighting with"

Judge Death Lives where Dredd put his fist straight through Fears face.

La Placa Rifa,
W. R. Logan.

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Judge Whitey, what a stupid name 8-)

La Placa Rifa,
W. R. Logan.

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[W. R. Logan.]

>Hey, let's keep doing this every few months, the Eternal Thread!

OK

La Placa Rifa,
http://www.2000ad.nu/classof79/>W. R. Logan.

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