Why No Animated Series'?

[Stan]

I've been trying to introduce a friend to Dredd. He's a bit of a cartoon nut and is wondering why there have been no attempts to make an animated series of either Dredd or (I assume) other 2000AD properties.

Maybe there has but I don't really have an answer for him. Does anyone here have one?

[JOE SOAP]

It's hard to get-funding-for/make a cartoon about a law-enforcer who shoots people for a living.

[Stan]

I agree for the most part but the funny thing is that he had this proviso (which I neglected to mention, my bad).

"If someone bullshits "Cuz it's too violent", tell 'em to bugger off!

Dredd could have been just armed with a blaster that vaporizes the bad guys in a flash of light.

No gore.

Perfectly appropriate for TV."

He has anger issues.

[WhitBloke]

Tell him Cosgrove Hall nearly got the rights from Fleetway, with Nerys Hughes slated to do the voice of Anderson.  And a talking dog sidekick in it.

[Stan]

That last part's a joke, right?

And my friend also wants to apologise. He didn't realise I was gonna post his proviso in full technicolor.

[Stan]

?

[WhitBloke]

  I'd totally forgotten the Judge Pal in-strip cartoon when I posted that tease suggestion for your friend, Stan.  And now I can't help chuckling at the sidekick dog.  "By the rowr of justice!" 

You superb man, Stan!

[Colin YNWA]

There was the ABC Promo doing the rounds a while back and it looked great, I think it was for an anthology type show much like the comic (??? is my memory playing tricks on that part?). Alas it failed to get funding I believe and so didn't progress. The potential is there but someone needs to stump up the cash and take the risk in making it fly.

I have to be honest if this was to happen, regardless of how good the movie is, I'd find this more exciting and I think it'd do more for the long term good of the comic.

[Cursed Earth Dweller]

It's hard to get-funding-for/make a cartoon about a law-enforcer who shoots people for a living.

Not really. Dragonball Z featured people getting eviscerated and superpowerd aliens tearing eachothers limbs off(granted they cut a lot of that on the PG channels). I think a Judge Dredd cartoon could be made the same way and still retain it's subversity.

[Alski]

A good time to repost this old chestinut - a Spanish 'trailer' for a movie of Slaine: The Horned God

Just cries out to be made proper by Zak Snyder...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRIPAsbhZpM&noredirect=1

[SmallBlueThing]

I think you'll find it cries out to be a full movie from the guy who made the 'trailer', and that zack snyder (who i will always defend for his glorious 'dawn of the dead' remake) can go shit.

SBT

[Stan]

  I'd totally forgotten the Judge Pal in-strip cartoon when I posted that tease suggestion for your friend, Stan.  And now I can't help chuckling at the sidekick dog.  "By the rowr of justice!" 

You superb man, Stan!

Thanks but I wasn't even aware of it until a friend pointed it out. Shows how much I know. Was that in the mag then? The text looks very 2000AD.

[chaingunchimp]

Always thought that tiny bit of ABC footage was truly brilliant.
would love to see a 2000ad animated anthology film in the same vein as the 1st Heavy Metal film or the Halo: legends/ animatrix films. Straight to dvd with a Load of violence and different art styles would be good for me!

[Colin YNWA]

Just in case anyone hasn't seen it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJOphc0BD3w

[Buddy]

When I win the lottery that ABC cartoon is gonna get made!