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I'm relatively new to Judge Dredd, I only have 2 issues of the megazine and 7 issues of 2000AD...

so like Batman has the Joker and Two-Face etc...
who have been Judge Dredd's main enemies/nemeses over the years that he's been in print?

many many many thanks for your help guys!
I guess I've got abit lost recently and frustrated having done a degree, unable to get a job with lofty ambitions and wondering what do next about it e.g. MA in directing etc...

just a word on submitting or posting scripts and such online...
I guess I've been wary of doing that until now, because; whats to stop someone steeling your material? + when sending scripts off to people and studios etc...should you copyright them or something first?

Robert Patrick, you say...?

Mmmmm.

haha I hear your skepticism there...
I think Patrick's a half-decent actor and he'd have to tone down from his newly aquired bulky 'redneck' frame, but I still think he could pull it off, I guess I came to that watching the last series of x-files recently...
..I guess Patrick hasn't been in anything for a while, but neither has michael biehn, though both were in Grindhouse, and they can both still act...and..

...come to think of it Michael Biehn would make a good Kane (aside the above Willis's Lynch).


Kane


Michael Biehn

There's gonna be a Kill Bill 3? (Actually that does ring a bell. But a very small faint one.)
...............

Looks like number 3 won't be out until 2014 though.

Yeah, 2014 apparently – I bet Tarantino can't wait to do an age-job on Thurman to compare with DeNiro in Once Upon a Time in America...

I know I will disappoint die-hard Tarantino fans...(which is a fine line between being just a general fan of Tarantino as I am)....but I didn't like Inglorious Basterds...it seemed like parts of different films glued together, and the frustrating thing is that there are bits of genius in there...
when I went to see the movie, there were kids and late teens there laughing at everybit of violence. I just sat thinking 'these kids were'nt even old enough to see this film or any of Tarantino's work until like a year ago.....and what teh hell are they laughing at..' lol
I do love Christoph Waltz's, Brad Pitt's and Til Schweiger's performances in it though...I didn't like the other cast though, especially Eli Roth...
- and also the first scenes of the nazi siege of a jewish family, the Dirty Dozen sequence, as well as later parts of the film with the David Bowie song and the burning of the cinema were inspired...

But;
I'm afraid I'm with the likes of Mark Kermode when I agree that, compared to Tarantino's earlier work, his Kill Bill series, Grindhouse and Inglourious... smatt of self-indulgence with negligence to the art itself.

I hope Tarantino returns to his full-on genius flicks again...I also hope he works with Pitt and Willis again...
I thought that Tarantino would do the film adapt justice because Jackie Brown was adapted from Leonard's original material, and that led to a brilliant piece of genius Tarantino work.

PS on Kill Bill; I did like the 2nd movie, but I didn't like the 1st so much...I've always loved the western-style revenge movies. And Kurt Russell's performance was great in Death Proof, but the movie was terrible and a pointless piece of pastiche.

Just loads of collection volumes (trade paperbacks) with plenty of past stories in them

aaahh, thats what i thought...yep will definately look into paperbacks and such. cheers.

...so my problem is; I'm talented, but in my life I want to pursue various avenues of creative endeavors;
1) I want to be an auteur i.e. scriptwriter and director.
2) I'd love to be a freelance journalist and reviewer.
3) I want to get novels published.
4) I'd love to script comic books like 2000AD.

Although I come up with the necessary ideas I have no idea how I get from A to B/here-to-there career-wise in regards to the things I've listed above.

I've just finished university where I got a 2:1, and at the moment I only have plans to work, work on some scripts, and then do an MA next year in Film.


Does anyone have any advice?
it would be greatly appreciated.

Has anyone seen that 'official' poster for the Kane & Lynch movie adaptation which is apparently in cinemas in 2011? The cast for the movie has been confirmed to be Bruce Willis and Jamie Foxx!

http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/images/kane-and-lynch-poster1.jpg

This whole business has got me thoroughly p*ssed off!!!
Although I've only played this great game a few times on the occasion I've been at a friends house, as an aspiring director, scriptwriter and general auteur I could see the filmic potential for the adaptation of the game instantly e.g. An odd couple pair of ultimate hardmen convicts in a film to rival Michael Mann's Heat if done affectively.
But this adaptation promised for 2011 seems terrible;
A) first of, if this is the poster, its terrible, have they seen the film posters for the console game? Have they seen the covers?
B) so Bruce Willis was a given if you're going to cast this film...but then;
1) Jamie Foxx is cast as Lynch??? when Willis could be made to look the spit of Lynch! Plus, whats with the buddy-movie, black-guy + white-guy, Lethal Weapon pairing? why not stick to the games? what is this, Men in Black 5?!! Plus the guys in silhouette on the poster don't even look like Willis and Foxx...or Kane and Lynch for that matter!!!
C) so this is the thing that reeaaalllyyy frustrates me the most......
Willis is, to me, evidently the 'should-have' for the role of Lynch (not Kane!)


(Lynch)


(Willis)

They're also missing a trick in not casting Timothy Olyphant as Kane! not only does he look like the character, the actor has also had a gun-toting role-experience in Hitman and Crazies to some extent. But if Olyphant fails to float your boat, then two other 'left-field' actors who could play the role well and look the part would be Michael Keaton or Robert Patrick.


Kane


Timothy Olyphant


Michael Keaton


Robert Patrick

PS What's more Quentin Tarantino should stop being so self indulgent and 2nd rate whilst writing Kill Bill 3 and script and direct Kane & Lynch!

Thanks!

what do you mean by 'a world of trades'?

Hi all,
I'm a 25 year-old film (and general) geek. I've loved comics since I was young.
In my late teens I temporarily turned into a teenage werewolf and lost my way abit. However in my mid 20s I have resumed my geeky ways have returned with a vengeance (as if I was experiencing somekind of teenage fugue); stigmatism, ill fitting glasses, extensive comic and dvd collection etcetera...

As a kid I used to be fascinated with Judge Dredd, but only bought the odd Dredd Megazine and watched the Hollywood Stallone vehicle...

Having rewatched Spaced this year with its numerous references to 2000AD, I remembered my childhood interest and invested in some issues of the Dredd megazine once more, and recently bought the last 8 weeks-worth of 2000AD progs, making it my preferred Judge Dredd publication.

Being the aforementioned film geek I am, I love the way the character of Judge Dredd can be seen as an amalgam of various filmic characters. With Dredd's snarling prowess and embodiment of justice I'd liken him to Clint Eastwood's 'Man with no name' the western 'gun-for-hire', or Harry Callahan from the Dirty Harry movies - Dredd is the 'enforcer' - the 'lawgiver' of Mega-City-One, enforcing faceless justice in a way that rivals and often succeeds the like of Bale's growling Batman. And of course, if you wish, Dredd can be a Bruce Willis type hardman or a Stallone action-hero.

My only hope is that Karl Urban (not a man I would have picked for the job) and the forthcoming DREDD film deliver the goods.