Dredd (2012)

[chuffsteruk]

I didn't know what phrase to use for fear of upsetting someone.However, (and I apologise profusely in advance), the only one that was apt enough was that the chin looked like the face we pulled at school when describing someone as a "Joey"(as in Joey Deacon.)

[Bubba Zebill]

I wasn't gonna post again until the film hits, but I just got something I thought might interest you all and shows how long some of us have been wondering about the possibilities of a film being made. In 1985/6 I was
a graphic design guppy up in Aberdeen and my boss (more or less) was Brian Taylor. Yesterday I reminded him of a conversation we had about DREDD and that I recalled he'd suggested they could give an actor a prosthetic chin. Today they could do it seamlessly, like the prosthetics of HITCHCOCK or Meryl Streep in the Thatcher film. Anyway Brian finally concluded our conversation by sending this link today. It's just for kicks and not an example of Brian's wizardry...you can see that at Candykiller and Rustboy below. But what a long conversation that was, jings!
...and it's definitely not a criticism of the direction either, both of us were delighted with the quality of the trailer....Just thought I'd share it guys and gals.
Dredd Chin
http://www.candykiller.com/extras/dredd.jpg

Candykiller
http://www.candykiller.com/
Rustboy
http://www.rustboy.com/

Is Brian's real name Scott?

No. I don't think he's ever used any pseudonyms either. How so?

[Bubba Zebill]

I didn't know what phrase to use for fear of upsetting someone.However, (and I apologise profusely in advance), the only one that was apt enough was that the chin looked like the face we pulled at school when describing someone as a "Joey"(as in Joey Deacon.)

That was a craze from lands end to John o groats...

[Bubba Zebill]

...and it's definitely not a criticism of the direction either, both of us were delighted with the quality of the trailer....Just thought I'd share it guys and gals.
Dredd Chin
http://www.candykiller.com/extras/dredd.jpg

I haven't seen that image before... Where's it from? I only ask because I just mentioned (in the trailer thread)

how in one shot his shoulder pad is very gold. It is here, also.

I think that was from entertainment weekly. The goldie you posted looks like a test, pre-distressing.

[Michaelvk]

Just been reading through the comments on some of the links pointing towards the trailer news.. And it's incredible how much damage to the character the Stallone version has done, and how many people associate Dredd with Stallone as well as thinking it was a character created for the movie, not the other way round..

[radiator]

Just been reading through the comments on some of the links pointing towards the trailer news.. And it's incredible how much damage to the character the Stallone version has done, and how many people associate Dredd with Stallone as well as thinking it was a character created for the movie, not the other way round..

That's not all. It's unthinkable now, but after the clusterfuck that was the Stallone movie, Judge Dredd was relegated to the back pages of the comic for six months or so (Dredd had always been the first strip in 2000ad since it went full colour), the 'Featuring Judge Dredd' coverline was scrapped and the character was allegedly so unpopular within 2000ad's then parent company he was almost dropped or rested from the comic entirely. It also pretty much killed any and all attempts to spin off further 2000ad properties into films until now.

[Bubba Zebill]

Just been reading through the comments on some of the links pointing towards the trailer news.. And it's incredible how much damage to the character the Stallone version has done, and how many people associate Dredd with Stallone as well as thinking it was a character created for the movie, not the other way round..

Very sad. But to be expected, Dredd has always been a bit ...well...cult. I knew 3 people that knew it when I was reading it as a lad. The Stallone disaster was the first most had heard of it. Let's hope this film rights things.

And people wonder why Alan Moore disassociates himself with films based on his books...2000AD should have done that with Stallone - although it would have made no difference, I guess.

[dracula1]

With regards to the prosthetic chin debate, . . . mould this beauty for DREDD2! 

[Frank]

And people wonder why Alan Moore disassociates himself with films based on his books...2000AD should have done that with Stallone - although it would have made no difference, I guess.

If Judge Dredd had been a creator-owned property, Wagner would have nixed that project at the first draft screenplay stage, rather than having to wait until shooting started until he had the opportunity to tell Danny Cannon he was "shooting the wrong fucking script".

If Mills and Wagner's unsuccessful bid to buy out 2000ad from IPC had been successful, the man who created Dredd might have been able to exert the same influence over the film adapatations of his work as JK Rowling did over the Potter books.

[PreacherCain]

It's been 17 years since that film. I think the majority of people either won't have seen the Stallone version or even be too aware of it to be frank.

The internet is filled with people in their 30s killing time at work. 

[PreacherCain]

Not sure if this has been postd already but there's a really good piece on the trailer from the Guardian...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2012/jun/22/judge-dredd-remake-karl-urban

Proepr creator credits, calling it a reboot (though the headline says remake!?)... this guy at least has done his research. Have to agree with this bit too...

What we do appear to have is the sort of storyline that might have been wrapped up in a single episode of the strip, rather than one of the more epic tales that spread over several issues. Urban does an impressive, and entirely appropriate, Clint Eastwood impression as Dredd (Wagner and Ezquerra were thinking of Dirty Harry when they came up with the character), and Travis seems to have been reading the Zack Snyder guide to epic slo-mo.

For me, this Dredd has the look of a slightly po-faced take on Mega-City One – one conceived in 2008, when Christopher Nolan's stern and visceral The Dark Knight had driven all before it at the global box office – when a bit of big, brash and bold Paul Verhoeven-style razzmatazz might have been more in order.

[Misanthrope]

No. I don't think he's ever used any pseudonyms either. How so?

Our resident troll Sc*j* has a habit of doing photoshop pictures like this.

[Kowalsky (formerly JudgeGumpty)]

With regards to the prosthetic chin debate, . . . mould this beauty for DREDD2! 

Youve been thumbing through my facebook profile and whipped a pic of my mum!

[dracula1]

With regards to the prosthetic chin debate, . . . mould this beauty for DREDD2! 

Youve been thumbing through my facebook profile and whipped a pic of my mum!

She's gorgeous, ... got her number?!

[Bubba Zebill]

No. I don't think he's ever used any pseudonyms either. How so?

Our resident troll Sc*j* has a habit of doing photoshop pictures like this.

Oh...you know it dawned on me over dinner that this might be the point you were making. Nope. Didn't intend 2 trip wires by posting a shopped image, I'm new to the problems that troll twat has caused. Check the links I posted, you might know BT's wrk in animation etc.