Dredd (2012)

[Michaelvk]

...to start frothing at the gash.

I am so borrowing that one..

[Danbo]

With all the fuss I thought that Girl with the Dragon Tatt and the Grey would have scored bigger than that,and Haywaire??? Am I the only one who loved that movie?

I think the best comparison I've seen so far is Kick Ass,both are going to more or less have the same audience.
It got mixed reviews in the states(panned) and great reviews here(5 stars Empire) and it made  96mill worldwide split 50% between the US and the rest.

http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=kickass.htm.

Or it could do a Haywire 

If its great we've got 2 weeks to drum it into the Yanks 

...less than two months to go.

[Beeks]

If Underword can make $62 Million then DREDD should breeze it surely?!

[Danbo]

With the talk of Dark Judges, has this guy ever been mentioned?

Javier Boter, seems to specialise in creatures - is in [REC], although I haven't seen it.



6' 4"

Holy shit!

[Danbo]

If Underword can make $62 Million then DREDD should breeze it surely?!

Love(Kate) it but never went to see it at the flicks,thinking about it Kate would make a great Hershey if she can do the accent.

[radiator]

If Underword can make $62 Million then DREDD should breeze it surely?!

An Underworld sequel, no less.

You'd think so, wouldn't you - and in a just world that'd be the case. But there's a lot of morons out there - see also the baffling, continued success of the Pirates of the Caribbean and Transformers franchises - films that no one seems to actually, actively like, yet people go to see in their droves.

Sadly, I think that most cinemagoers don't actually go to see specific films, they just turn up at the cinema and pick a film based on whatever has the shiniest, most expensive-looking poster and/or has the most celebrities they recognise in it.

With all the fuss I thought that Girl with the Dragon Tatt and the Grey would have scored bigger than that

Read my previous post - ...Dragon Tattoo made over $100m in the US (still a 'disappointing' take for that particular film), but it took a larg chunk of that in the last couple of weeks of 2011.

[Danbo]

Gotcha 

[Buddy]

Garlan'ds proposed sequels are reportedly:


Film II: Cursed Eath/Origins story.


Film III: Dark Judges.

I read Garland had considered The Cursed Earth as a follow up but rejected it for an origins story feeling that movie goers not familiar with Dredd needed to know more about Dredd and the city before taking the character out of the city, but Dark Judges are penciled in for a third film...... now, if I could only find where I read that!

[MR. ELIMINATOR]

I hope they don't go to cursed earth in the sequel, there is still way too much to see of Mega City One.

[wadew1]

Cursed Earth was considered for the first movie.
Origins and Dark Judges are the sequels they might do.

Do we get to see any of the Dark Judges in the film?

Alex Garland:

"In the sequel. Which we can make as long as the film grosses over $50 million in the States. It might be tough – this is an 18, an R rating. The first time I sat down to do the script I did sixteen drafts of (Judge) Death. It didn't feel right. We needed to set it all up first. The next version was all sort of the Long Walk (when Dredd loses faith in the justice system and leaves the city to bring law to the lawless in the Cursed Earth) and America (acclaimed as one of the best Judge Dredd stories), but we needed to get to know Dredd and everyone first. The trilogy would be this film, then Origins (the story of the rise of Mega City One and the Judges) and then the Dark Judges."

[Mardroid]

I read Garland had considered The Cursed Earth as a follow up but rejected it for an origins story feeling that movie goers not familiar with Dredd needed to know more about Dredd and the city before taking the character out of the city,

If they losely follow the Origins story of the comics they could do both. Present day, cursed Earth, past - the creation of the city.

[JOE SOAP]

I read Garland had considered The Cursed Earth as a follow up but rejected it for an origins

I think the film would need some sort of conceit in order to tell the story of the Judges from the perspective of future-present Dredd. In the ruins of the Cursed Earth is the best locale for that to story unfold and whatever plot they need to get Dredd out there, whether it be Fargo's body, 2TFRUT or something else - the desert is the place to be. Otherwise it'd all be rather academic and linear, and older Dredd wouldn't be driving the film.

[Goaty]

One of best Dredd stories I ever read last 15 years, Monkey On My Back, as it mixed with Mega-City 1 and Cursed Earth, that was based in early timeline of  Judge Dredd with CJ Goodman and SJS Chief Cal? Good example?

[Zarjazzer]

I'm all for a cursed earth film with many a mutie in it. And giant spiders and scorpions. Possibly a cat. Death to the norms! Oops what a giveaway...

[Stan]

With all the fuss I thought that Girl with the Dragon Tatt and the Grey would have scored bigger than that,and Haywaire??? Am I the only one who loved that movie?

YES!!

Although a surprising number of other people saw it. It just goes to show what a decent (or at least well known) cast can do for a film.

As the SFX guy said, the buzz around Dredd seems to be good, at least from people who have seen it. I can't wait for the first reviews to come out. Not that I really want to read them and basically wreck the film before I've even seen it, but I think word of mouth will do more harm than good at the very least.