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In what way?

Well you're the one who wants Max and Walter.

I think Smith has the right idea.

Nobody is saying there shouldn't be satire.

I'm not against humour either, done in an adult fashion. But half the people on this thread seem to want a kids' show.

Joe Soap: yes it is funny, but in the right kind of way.

Even taking examples from the earliest stories – are the Aggro Dome, Smokatorium, The Taxidermist and even Get Ugly, not brilliantly absurd creations from the early days that can't work?

Certainly a story about human taxidermy could definitely work, because it wouldn't have to be zany. You could do it in a serious, dark and intelligent way, and in fact that is how it was done in the original comic story -- the Jacob Sardini stories only became comedies in the sequels. The original would adapt very well to the screen.

It's all about tone. Including some of the more zany, or supernatural, elements of the comic in a gritty, grounded approach a'la 2012 Dredd would be fine.

I agree. But most of the people on this thread seem to be arguing in favour of a wacky comedy approach, which would certainly alienate most non-fans, and would be so different from the 2012 film that it wouldn't make sense to do it, given that (as SIP says) it's that groundswell of support inspired by the film which has led to this project. Nobody clamoured for a sequel to the 1995 film or for a TV series based on it.

As someone else said recently, there were already some interesting SF elements in the 2012 film, you've just forgotten them because we tend to take Anderson's psi powers for granted. We could have more stuff like that, but still have a show that non-comics-fans actually want to watch. What we can't have is a nostalgia-fest for people who love the first three Case Files. That won't work.

I think Game of Thrones went about it the right way: although set in a fantasy world, it started out down to earth, let us get to know the human characters, and gradually built up the dragons, zombies and magic. Having Judge Death in the first episode would be a mistake. By all means have him turn up later on.

It doesn't sound like it's going to be lighter, they've said it will still be gritty. But one of the criticisms of the 2012 film was that it didn't look futuristic enough, and it sounds like they're going to address that. I'd be happy with a mix of the best elements of both films. Would be great if they kept Karl Urban.

Jason Kingsley answers the Karl Urban question.

I can't watch videos at work, what does he say?

I bet there's a lot of repetition and it's very hard to keep things original and fresh after so many issues.

How would you know?

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Trying to adapt Judge Cal would kill the series.

An endless regurgitation of stories and characters I already know would begin to grate eventually.

Yes, while I want the series to include and be true to the characters, they could do that and still come up with original stories.

It would take him ten years to write them.

I just wish he'd get on with finishing Requiem Vampire Knight!

The Hundredfold Problem by John Grant was re-written as a non-Dredd novel, I think because the licence to use Dredd had expired.

What a great debate! And no one has called anyone a Nazi or a (banned word warning) yet! I don't recognise the Internet anymore!