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Who do you think will play Ma Ma?

I'm thinking Sigourney Weaver [spoiler]in a fat suit[/spoiler]
she was in Pete Travis' Vantage point.

No industrial!

It's so overused in SF films. There has to be a scene where "scary" looking punks all wearing black leather with studs through their eyelids pogo around menacingly to some crap industrial music. Apparently, it's "futuristic". Bloody cliched more like.

If I had my way it would be a sparing amount of Warp stuff but mainly orchestral please.

Ah, but I don't necessarily mean disco beats and sampled guitars, I just mean electronic stuff with a slightly industrial soundset, something vaguely mechanical and techy sounding. I'm not talking Rammstein here.

Like James says, Vangelis or Reznor would be nice if Mansell's busy. I see Reznor's scored David Fincher's upcoming movie which should be interesting.

Yes I like the way you're thinking Keef. The last thing I want is another forgettable action/super hero soundtrack that doesn't convey any atmosphere or feeling. I like the Vangelis Blade Runner, which was very inventive and and atmospheric. Let's hope the film makers don't have the music just as an after thought. 

Yeah Aliens is pretty Bombastic in places but it was fitting for what was happening onscreen, I didn't get that sense with the old Judge Dredd score. To be honest as movie scores go I much prefer the one for the original 1979 Alien.

Anyway I just hope thy don't take it the generic superhero route and do something that can stand up against something like the original terminator and stuff like that.

Who would you like to score the soundtrack for the new film?
Believe it or not, but I wouldn't mind Alan Silvestri coming back doing the music.
I actually liked his ''Mega-city suite'' & ''DREDD'' theme.

Agreed.
Silvestri's score was one of the only good things in that film.

Silvestri's score wasn't so bad if you take a listen to it but the way it was used in the film was lame. I didnt really like the parts that sounded (Bah -BaH _BAAH!} like SU- PAH _MAAN!  That really turned me off when watchin it in the cinema - pretty cringe worthy. And those are the parts of the score that were most prominent.

Don't know about you but when I think Judge Dredd I sure as hell don't wanna be reminded of Superman or any other of those cheesy Superheroes.

I'm more inclined to go for a percussive experimental or just out of the ordinary soundtrack for the new Dredd. When I was a kid back in the 80's reading 2000ad and watching TV and Movies it was stuff like this that was most memorable:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loPojPH68IA&feature=related   ( V -Miniseries theme)
More Terminatoresque

Or this :  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG7HRYXssMM&feature=channel  ( Equalizer Theme)

Something like the Aliens score: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVuo0lM4qio  or Predator is much more fitting for Dredd than some generic superhero theme. Think more Donnie Darko than BatMan :    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2-QR93EywM
Yes Slow but , it has Atmosphere!

Even the Trailer music that they didn't use in the Stallone film would be more fitting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVP54byTjDE


   

I just hope Dredd is going to call out what he's about to do just before doing it.

BOOT KNIFE!

Yeah he does do that kind of thing. I don't recall him using bootknife though.

Sorry pedant alert


Don't know if that pedant alert is aimed my way? If it is I'm well aware Dredd uses a  boot knife in the comics - I was referring to the Peach tree script.

I think we all know Dredd enough here to know about BOOT KNIFE.

I just hope Dredd is going to call out what he's about to do just before doing it.

BOOT KNIFE!

Yeah he does do that kind of thing. I don't recall him using bootknife though.

Most of the Humour comes from the over the top violence funnily enough (if you find that kind of thing funny - which most of us probably do reading 2000ad) and not the straight forward satirical stuff.

I found it all quite funny, but who knows if the people making it understand that like Paul Verhoven does - and play violence for laughs.

The script has been leaked online and I just read it.

I'm a long term fan of Judge Dredd, If I haven't read every episode I've read at least 95% of the Dredd episodes and I'd say that this script is very faithful to the comic in feel. If you've heard that it's set up like Die hard in MC1 that's pretty much on the money and it's not a bad thing either. If you're gonna take any action film as a template Die Hard is really as good as it gets anyway - take a look back at that movie if you forget and you'll realize just how tightly scripted economic it is.

This is going to be a relatively low budget production by todays sci-fi action movie standards so a lot of the weirder stuff would honestly be superfluous to the thrust of the story anyway.There is still no reason the film makers can't insert some of that stuff in there. The focus is on the action and the characters of Dredd and Anderson who are practically identical to how they are in the comics. The same can't be said for the film from '95.

Also take a look at district 9 that came out last year and you'll know that a film like this can be done on a budget successfully, and apparently a producer from that film is also working on Dredd. Its also shot in SA like district 9 meaning Johannesburg can be used for location shooting doubling for MC1. Director Pete Travis has experience in working out there too for his last film Endgame.

I could go on and on with reasons why it could all work out perfectly but I wont - there are also things that could've been included e.g the Ma-Ma clan could've been the Angel gang - so on.

Some of the violence in this thing is 100 times harder than even something like Robocop, I hope they keep it all in. It reads like something that could have been made back in the 80s. All in all I'm impressed so far.

Mark Valley from human target could play Dredd.
Never seen the show Just these Clips!!!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp0hu8wFVUk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZIudy0Kl3Q&feature=related

Judge Dredd is one of the best comic characters ever created and needs to be done correctly on screen. The key to the character is his  lack of emotion; he's not a robot but his personality is completely tied in with what is right or wrong in the eyes of the law. That's the reason behind his catch phrase 'I am the law ', He has no regard for the other trivialities of life like love - he only loves the law anything else has been burned from his psyche or repressed. That's the point of the character and what makes him unique, he's like a machine with no regard for even himself and he'll go to any degree to protect the law of his city.
The screen writer of the original movie (William Wisher I think) had absolutely no idea about how to portray the character. When it comes down to it - Dredd is simple to write when you realize that he only has one real motivation, and all the comedy and absurdity in the comic arise from his tunnel vision in following the letter of the law. Hes a man who IS a machine - More than Robobop.
If you want an emotional center to a Dredd story - that will come from other characters like Chopper, Anderson or PJ Maybe - not Dredd himself.
There are presidents onscreen of characters that we like but don't really 'Know' - COLUMBO being one example - it can be done, so there's no need for Hollywood to muck it up again.
Get Pat Mills Alan Grant or John Wagner involved with the script they're all geniuses.
Actor wise I think Clint Eastwood was the template but its too late for him now. Mickey Rourke would be a better choice than Ron Perlman, either would be good. Bruce Campbell?  On looks alone the actor Richard Burgi would be a good choice - Look him up.
DO IT RIGHT THIS TIME