Judge Minty (Judge Dredd fan film)

[Bat King]

Another interview done & up on my blog.

This time with Daniel Carey-George
http://judgetutorsemple.wordpress.com/2013/05/11/1504/

[Albion]

With permission from the Minty team, here is the DVD cover I put together for fun a while back.

[Bat King]

Nice stuff Albion!

[Professor Bear]

Do we have a pool going on what gets nicked from Minty first?  If so, put me down for a fiver on "that bit where the psychic bloke alters the bullet's trajectory".

Also never realised until my second viewing that the Long Walk is essentially Justice Department-sanctioned suicide.  Puts a spin on the Tale of the Dead Man I hadn't thought of before.

[JOE SOAP]

Do we have a pool going on what gets nicked from Minty first?  If so, put me down for a fiver on "that bit where the psychic bloke alters the bullet's trajectory".

It was nicked for Judge Dredd: Year One, issue 2.

[Steven Sterlacchini]

I'm pretty sure that if it happened in Minty, it must have happened in 2000AD first, in some way, at some point. 

[Steve Green]

I was going to say the same thing, if it wasn't a direct thing, it was more that it had seeped into our consciousness.

Shojan stopped a lawgiver round with his Psi-powers, although Big Brain mucking around with Sam Slade's blaster beam is probably a closer visual.

I think a heatseeker is just a nice visual way to show it because it can have a trail.

The gang is kind of what would have been the remains of the Brotherhood of Darkness led by an evil version of Novar. Just flinging rocks around instead of metal trees. (It is a bit of a nod to the death belt as well)

What was funny was seeing bits cropping up in the prog, the megazine and the film which we were already doing.

E.g. the CCTV screens, the headbutt and throat punch in the hand to hand - then there the Gila Munja and the image of the skull in the helmet turning up in Cursed Earth Koburn, and the gang with the Psi-powered leader in Tour of Duty.

One of the inevitable consequences when you're all working from the same source.


The suicide analogy is an interesting one - I've got my own theories on Minty's state of mind.

We thought about what Judges do for support, whether there are arms caches/supplies scattered around. (Also notable that Dredd got a lawmaster, the lazy bastard)

One thing I would have loved to done which didn't make it in there is to have made the mutants a bit more mutated - only 2 have facial differences done digitally.

One idea (which I think might have been workable) is to have made Dale's character like the one with Chuck Titman and have a smaller, gobby mutant on his back, or the back of his head. Didn't occur to me till after filming though.

I spotted this a while back, and it's a rather nice technique for digital prosthetics

https://vimeo.com/23946602

The main limitation is that heads can't turn too much as it's a 2D fake, I did similar on Dale's character, but you only really notice on the introduction, as the fight scene is mostly short shots, but if you look at individual frames you can see he's been altered.

[Bubba Zebill]

I had always assumed the 'skull in the helmet' was a reference to the Bolland cover. Perhaps it is and I've missed out on part of the conversation here. Osmosis or homage...an excellent image either way.
http://brianbolland.blogspot.cz/2011/10/taken-from-my-xeroxes-so-not-perfect.html

[judda fett]

So when is the making of Minty book going to be available then?

[Steve Green]

I had always assumed the 'skull in the helmet' was a reference to the Bolland cover. Perhaps it is and I've missed out on part of the conversation here. Osmosis or homage...an excellent image either way.
http://brianbolland.blogspot.cz/2011/10/taken-from-my-xeroxes-so-not-perfect.html

I think we spotted that after the fact - some of those Bolland Eagle covers passed us by. The original image had no skull, but it's a much stronger one with it - also echoes Judge Death as well as the cracked visor referencing things like City of the Damned.

You can see there's parallel evolution where you compare the battered look of that helmet to the ones in Dredd - the scratched metal and aged patina are very close.

We just needed a contrast between a city version and the beaten up Cursed Earth one.

[Cactus]

Hot-diggety-damn, that was awesome!

I'll watch it again later when the missus gets here.

[redbaz]

Re: the skull in the helmet- when I did the storyboard of the first reveal of the post, I remember thinking there already was a skull in the original teaser photo, and just drew it in as such, not realising the difference until afterwards. The memory of the Bolland cover must have been somewhere in our collective heads!

[Frank]

From the comments section on Youtube:

[spoiler] FlameOnTv 6 hours ago

6:27 ... She looks like giving hundreds of blowjobs. WTF![/spoiler]

I hope SBT doesn't read that, although I hope for the sake of marital harmony in the Barbeau household that speculation has some truth to it. Bizarrely, the time signature given shows a shot of Edmund Dehn with a come hither look on his face ...

[Steve Green]

Cheers - removed... I was in 2 minds about whether to allow comments or not, knowing what youtube is like, and not really wanting to spend time moderating comments.

[Frank]

Cheers - removed... I was in 2 minds about whether to allow comments or not, knowing what youtube is like, and not really wanting to spend time moderating comments.

Now that's swift and effective moderation! Are you paying attention, Rich? All JOE SOAP's comments appear to be flagged as spam too, so Steve really has all his bases covered.