Dredd (2012)

[Bubba Zebill]

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

I'm mixing up some plaster now!

[vzzbux]

I would love to know what Stallone's reaction/verdict is on the uncoming film.




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[MR. ELIMINATOR]

I would love to know what Stallone's reaction/verdict is on the uncoming film.




V

Hopefully supportive, I think I read somewhere he said he regretted what a mess the film was.

[PreacherCain]

Now an AV Club mention :: http://www.avclub.com/articles/dredd,81709/

It makes The Raid comparison again but quantifies it by saying Dredd was done first and was just beaten to the line schedule-wise.

Looks like the trailer got a pretty good response overall and was featured on a hell of a lot of the mainstream media sites.

[Syne]

One of the commentators somewhere said (un-ironically, I think) that they should have cast Billy Bob Thornton for his chin. While my initial reaction was "????!!!" they actually kinda have a point: he has the strong chin and pouty lips of an early Ezquerra or McMahon Dredd.

[Michaelvk]

I would love to know what Stallone's reaction/verdict is on the uncoming film.




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Hopefully supportive, I think I read somewhere he said he regretted what a mess the film was.

Meh.. He made his money...

[Misanthrope]

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.

I was only kidding.

[JOE SOAP]

[spoiler]Stallone Dredd fee: $15 million.[/spoiler] I'm sure he regrets the mess he made of a great character.

[Stan]

As some who followed Transformers through development hell to the eventual release I learned to avoid AICN and IMDb like the plague. Unless I was trolling. Maybe I should've warned people.

Posting on IMDb is a particularly fruitless endeavour though.

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..

A Yank friend, and non-Dredd fan, suggested to me that the whole Stallone thing may be a two-edged sword as far as the American audience goes. I mean at least they now know who Dredd is to even make the comparison. I reckon he may be on to something.

[Goaty]

Karl Urban looks fab as Dredd!


I know you says many people with chins looks good as Dredd, as I did from first day with this Saul Tigh chin;

[Syne]

Karl Urban looks fab as Dredd!


I know you says many people with chins looks good as Dredd, as I did from first day with this Saul Tigh chin;

Not bad. I agree though, Karl Urban looks great. The character is about more than just a big chin, or a big shoulder eagle, or a bike with massive wheels.

[JOE SOAP]

He is old Dredd.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isB-3YDj4yc

[Kowalsky (formerly JudgeGumpty)]

Id have him play Chief Judge Griffin though he would have to don a syrup.

[Beaky Smoochies]

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".

Not defending the Stallone debacle, but John Wagner and Alan Grant were commissioned by Ed Pressman to write a treatment for the movie in late 1991, which they spent six weeks on, only to demand payment upfront for it, which was totally ridiculous, you did not get paid upfront for a mere story outline treatment in 1991/2 unless you're name was Shane Black, Michael Crichton, or Joe Ezsterhas, and Wagner and Grant should have been aware of that fact, and because they wouldn't back down over payment, that treatment didn't go any further in the development process, alas...

[W. R. Logan]

John and Alan are writers and justifiably asked to be paid to do their job.
They stuck to their principles.