A new petition went online this morning but because the poster is new, he posted it in his welcome thread and couldn't make a dedicated thread for it. I've decided to start a thread primarily about how we can use this medium to petition for a sequel. It may be through the petitions, or as was shown in the Dredd thread (which may have been swallowed up) by emailing and sending letters to the powers that be!
PETITION FOR A SEQUEL (http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/a-sequel-to-dredd-3d/) All this takes is a name, a signature and if you want, a comment and it will take less than a few minutes if you include reading the actual petition. You can even sign in with Facebook!
BRING BACK DREDD (http://www.change.org/petitions/dna-films-im-global-reliance-entertainment-make-a-sequel-to-the-dredd-feature-film#share) This takes a little longer, as you have to add other fields when you sign. Now don't let the fact that about 10-15% of this petition is written in capitals put you off. The person who made this petition has actually done something which many people won't, so let's back it!
Now we have the email addresses and postal addresses, if you feel that you can spend a bit longer putting forward what you would like to happen.
IM Global:
email: info@imglobalfilm.com
mail to:
IM GLOBAL
8322 Beverly Blvd
Los Angeles
CA 90048
United States
DNA FILMS:
email: info@dnafilms.com
mail to:
DNA Films
10 Amwell Street
London
EC1R 1UQ
Obviously we can all sit back and moan about the world and everything that is wrong with it but with this we can direct something towards the people who hold the possibilities for a sequel to the character that we love reading about.
I hope you can at least sign the petitions but as said above, if you have a little extra spare time then if you write to the companies, then who knows what might happen.
Naysayers need not apply!
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Quote from: Goaty on 22 May, 2013, 03:50:40 PM
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I immediately thought of this episode of Father Ted. You scare me Goaty. :)
Forgot to say I signed them both and I'm strongly considering writing a real letter to both as well. Somehow I think actually posting something would carry more weight than an ephemeral collection of electrons.
Indeed I'm gonna do a letter to both when I get a free moment.
I was thinking about this and is it worth adding a gimmick to the letters like the Stargate Cancellation one where fans sent tissue boxes to paramount. Justice Dept citation or the like, just to make them more memorable / annoying
Already sent a couple emails each over the last couple of weeks (sent two more today ;)).
As for letters very good idea to include something that makes them memorable.Maybe someone could post something online we could all print off to include.I do like the citation idea :)
I think if we ran a Kickstarter and raised 20 million dollars, the company would be up for doing it.
That's your job sorted then.
Great
as Mr Urban said its up to the FANS... also cant 2000Adonline send a news letter to all registered members to do this .............. not everyone come to the forum everyday
Quote from: junox on 22 May, 2013, 06:09:27 PM
Great
as Mr Urban said its up to the FANS... also cant 2000Adonline send a news letter to all registered members to do this .............. not everyone come to the forum everyday
Another good idea.I nominate Mr Clements for this task :D
Quote from: The Sherman Kid on 22 May, 2013, 07:53:55 PM
Quote from: junox on 22 May, 2013, 06:09:27 PM
Great
as Mr Urban said its up to the FANS... also cant 2000Adonline send a news letter to all registered members to do this .............. not everyone come to the forum everyday
Another good idea.I nominate Mr Clements for this task :D
Naughty..! ;-)
Christ! As if life isn't bad enough for someone trying to get there foot in the door of the industry by working an unpaid internship with an independent film company. Now they're going to be opening countless envelopes ripe with the foetid miasma of middle-aged geek. It's like being Tony Lee without the beard.
Heres an idea.
Of sorts *
Instead of signing petitions etc, how about getting a cinema chain involved.
Through this cinema- BUY an actual, but fictitious, cinema ticket to see Dredd 2.
Buying the ticket acts as your 'petition' BUT....
The cinema chain agrees to honour the ticket should the film be made.
That way, a certain amount of actual revenue can be generated by the fans, an held by a middle man, in this case the cinema.
Sorted.
* I havent thought this through much so take it with a pinch of salt. Actually, I doubt it would work at all, but I can only imagine IMG getting really pissed at spamming them with emails, as I think has been said before.
Bye !
Done! :)
Can I just politely point out that we don't want to be annoying. We want something, but we want them to want us to want it
Be positive, be constructive. So if you mention 3D putting people of explain politely why it put you off or why you think out put others off. Speak from your experience where possible. Opinion is secondary, they can disagree with opinion but they can't disagree with your experience.
I'll be emailing, I might make it an own letter too on my Blog. The one I may have mentioned Judge Minty on once or twice.
^ Totally agree. I must admit that whoever is behind the facebook page has made some pretty silly moves, for example posting a presumably private letter to be publically viewed earlier on today. Luckily it was removed within minutes, but someone obviously has a lack of PR skills.
Just to clarify I applaud and support the movement to get a sequel, but I'm fully aware that if not properly guided and channeled it coulld end up doing more harm than good.
^^^^ that, more than anything.
Signed 'em. Only 82 names are needed before we get our sequel!
On related lobbying and petitioning malarkey.
Fellow board members may have noticed that the online DVD/Blu-ray merchant Zavvi have been doing some sexy steelbooks of late.
If we're interested in increasing those DVD/Blu-ray sales, maybe helping to contribute to the chances of a sequel, why not drop Zavvi a line requesting a Steelbook release?
I did so and was told that my request had been sent to the relevant party responsible for such things.
Worth a go?
Here's a link:
http://www.zavvi.com/contact-us.info
Been signing petitions all week and am currently in the process of constructing a positive email/ letter to be sent to all of the mentioned addresses. Also worth a mention is Leon Clarance C.E.O of reliance Entertainment and on twitter who has a love for Dredd and replied to one of my tweets regarding a sequel to the film, Give him a tweet see if you get a response. Be nice the man did take the time to tweet me back saying" what about digital rather than celluloid? Thats not a property I have any say over but who knows...".
Done Dweezil :thumbsup:
Cool, I've signed the petition, and fired off that email I mentioned in the 'Dredd' film thread. I'm going to periodically post Dredd or Judge related pics in the Facebook page to help keep interest going.
Quote from: shaolin_monkey on 24 May, 2013, 12:32:11 PM
Cool, I've signed the petition, and fired off that email I mentioned in the 'Dredd' film thread. I'm going to periodically post Dredd or Judge related pics in the Facebook page to help keep interest going.
Or you could post it in personal in your Judge uniform?
Quote from: Goaty on 24 May, 2013, 12:33:09 PM
Quote from: shaolin_monkey on 24 May, 2013, 12:32:11 PM
Cool, I've signed the petition, and fired off that email I mentioned in the 'Dredd' film thread. I'm going to periodically post Dredd or Judge related pics in the Facebook page to help keep interest going.
Or you could post it in personal in your Judge uniform?
Already done... ;)
A few thoughts.
http://judgetutorsemple.wordpress.com/2013/05/24/want-a-sequel-to-alex-garlands-dredd/
Neither of those sites seems compatible with my Android tablet, but I'll give 'em a click when I've fired up my laptop.
I've clicked several 'likes' on Facebook already.
Sorry, gathering by the "overwhelming" (*sobs*) number of replies to the new thread I posted this in yesterday, I'm guessing it would have been better posted here.... so here goes... attempt 2... (I think it is relevant though so bear with me)
This MUST have been said somewhere before, but just in case....
Doesn't the excellent Judge Minty film show just how awesome a low budget Cursed Earth Dredd 2 could be? While we're all off petitioning the makers of Dredd 3D for a sequel, it possibly wouldn't hurt to throw this idea into the mix (with a link to it on YouTube to make it easy).
Incidentally, if any of you are sharing the link to the Amazon Blu-Ray copy on Facebook, and stating it is £7, it no longer is:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B008OGHUFK/ref=redir_mdp_mobile?ref_=tsm_1_fb_lk
The price has more than doubled! My guess is Amazon have run out of their own supply, and have turned to a third party to fulfil orders. Unfortunately that third party is charging a price more akin to regular 3D Blu-Rays.
Bah!
Quote from: shaolin_monkey on 27 May, 2013, 12:50:03 PM
Incidentally, if any of you are sharing the link to the Amazon Blu-Ray copy on Facebook, and stating it is £7, it no longer is:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B008OGHUFK/ref=redir_mdp_mobile?ref_=tsm_1_fb_lk
The price has more than doubled! My guess is Amazon have run out of their own supply, and have turned to a third party to fulfil orders. Unfortunately that third party is charging a price more akin to regular 3D Blu-Rays.
Bah!
Amazon usually ping-pong their
in-stock prices for certain periods; if only a third party can supply it they state it.
And it's £7.00 again:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dredd-Blu-ray-3D-Karl-Urban/dp/B008OGHUFK/ref=zg_bs_383380011_28
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 27 May, 2013, 04:45:48 PM
And it's £7.00 again:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dredd-Blu-ray-3D-Karl-Urban/dp/B008OGHUFK/ref=zg_bs_383380011_28
£14.97 now! I see what you mean about ping pong!!!
It's like a whore's knickers. When it starts to slip down the chart I think some scrote pulls the cheap-lever.
Quote from: shaolin_monkey on 27 May, 2013, 07:55:26 PM
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 27 May, 2013, 04:45:48 PM
And it's £7.00 again: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dredd-Blu-ray-3D-Karl-Urban/dp/B008OGHUFK/ref=zg_bs_383380011_28
£14.97 now! I see what you mean about ping pong!!!
Amazon should promote the bluray as the first disc whose price point illustrates the phenomenon of quantum entanglement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat).
Just a little something to promote the facebook campaign for a sequel :)
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Good work.Interesting title -what would you call the third one ;).
Anyone had any replies to their correspondence?
Ta. If we don't have to fight so hard for a third I'd call it DREDD AND LOVING IT :P
Quote from: The Sherman Kid on 30 May, 2013, 07:00:34 PM
Anyone had any replies to their correspondence?
Nothing so far. :'(
We all know the right title for a sequel to get the masses queuing around the street for tickets has to be "Dreddful Weather: Judge Dredd vs. Carl Heinz Pilchards-in-Tomato-Sauce Clayderman".
It also has the advantage that the title will take up the entire poster so you don't have to come up with some kind of interesting image that has almost nothing to do with the content of the film.
Quote from: Mark Taylor on 02 June, 2013, 12:55:35 PM
We all know the right title for a sequel
If there is to be a second one (and we all hope and/or pray there will), it should be titled Dredd Reckoning and go with the Cursed Earth story angle (and no bloody 3-D this time!), that way it could be done for about $40m... you have Cape Town and Jo'Burg for the scenes set in the Big Meg and the neighboring desert wastelands of Namibia for the Cursed Earth scenes, plus a return to the hallowed soundstages of Cape Town Studios for the set-based work!
Once Mr Garland is finished on
Ex Machina, get going on the Dredd sequel... with the guy who directed
28 Days Later in the director's chair this time!
... oops, meant 28 Weeks Later there, ...Days... was obviously Sir Daniel of Boyle, and after THAT Olympics opening ceremony, keep 'im the hell away from Dredd, 'nuff said.
Quote from: Beaky Smoochies on 04 June, 2013, 05:43:22 AM
If there is to be a second one (and we all hope and/or pray there will), it should be titled Dredd Reckoning and go with the Cursed Earth story angle (and no bloody 3-D this time!), that way it could be done for about $40m... you have Cape Town and Jo'Burg for the scenes set in the Big Meg and the neighboring desert wastelands of Namibia for the Cursed Earth scenes, plus a return to the hallowed soundstages of Cape Town Studios for the set-based work!
You must be hawking those old screenplays for
Shoreline Entertainment :
JUDGE DREDD: DREDD RECKONING
In Pre-Production
Mega-City One, a vast American sprawl in the year 2070, is a city spiraling out of control and drowning in corruption. In the skies, on the streets and in the illegal mutant ghettoes of the ancient Under-City below ground, crime fades into the shadows of a forgotten world.
Policed by "the Judges," a breed of man genetically developed to impose the law and keep the peace, Judge Dredd is the toughest, meanest, and straightest Mega-city cop who operates as instant judge, jury and executioner. Cloned form the original Chief Judge's DNA, Judge Dredd is the definitive lawman. Dedicated to justice, his determination knows no limits. On his word alone any law-breaking citizen can be sentenced to twenty years in the Time Stretcher or a lifetime in the bleak penal colony of Titan.
Yet, after a lifetime on the streets, Judge Dredd, the grand man of the Justice Department, has started to lose faith in the system, which created him. The never-ending corruption, lawless inhabitants and immoral lifestyle are taking their toll. Fearing the Justice Department cannot afford to lose its most legendary figurehead, Chief Judge Silver reads Dredd's frustration and takes action. Ordering a 24-hour news blackout Silver sets Dredd up as the fall guy and has him sentenced to 20 years of solitary confinement in Titan.
Meanwhile, Cadet Judge Kraken, a clone taken from the same DNA as Dredd and every bit the equal of Dredd, is secretly ordered to take on Dredd's identity. As far as the citizens are to know, there will still be a Judge Dredd on the streets of Mega-City One.
Believing Judge Dredd to be guilty and yet filled with unrequited love for him. Dredd's long time female partner Judge Hershey wants to personally deliver Dredd to Titan. Hershey deports Dredd to a strange, alien world where colonists from earth scrape out a meager existence.
As the spaceship lands, a saboteur strikes on board and the ship is destroyed. Leaving Titan is now harder than ever and Titan is not an easy place to live. But if anyone can survive the hostile unchartered area known as the Wilderlands, it is Judge Dredd.
Meanwhile Kraken, under the guise of Judge Dredd, has been enjoying the benefits of corruption in the shady Under-City community. Using the ghettoes as a front for Umpty (illegal, addictive candy) factors and the mutants as free labour, Kraken is severely damaging Dredd's perfect reputation.
One hundred days later, still in the Wilderlands, Dredd and Hershey successfully set up small fighting units to defeat the countless attacks from sinister forces. Mending his relationship with Hershey, Dredd now finds a way for them to flee. Barely escaping with their lives, they return to Mega-City One where Dredd must now clean up the corrupt city and quickly face his most lethal foe. Himself.
Film Credits TBA
http://www.shorelineentertainment.com/news/n12.html
Even without 3D I think they'd need more than $40 million for a sequel- $60 million was the estimate. There's a certain expectation that comes with a second film after the set-up of the first.
As for
Namibia, filming there has a certain
infamy, ask MichaelVK (or Richard Stanley & George Miller).
Thanks for post ....
Great T.V series !!
oop's no movie :)
I'd say go to Iceland for the Cursed Earth, although that's what the Stallone movie did.
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 04 June, 2013, 11:11:21 AM
You must be hawking those old screenplays for Shoreline Entertainment :
Ha ha, I knew I'd heard it before somewhere, cheers Joe dude, but I think there's a blog with that name as well, must have been hovering in the back of my memory somewhere, still though, it's a pretty good name for a Dredd sequel... or would a sequel have to have a title with a variation or spin on the titular character's name?
There's no way they'll EVER get remotely close to $60m for the sequel, if it ever happened, that number was quoted by Alex Garland of which was needed to go the epic treatment, but a more stripped-down and lean Dredd sequel without Chopper, Satanus, the whole
Origins backstory, etc, and without 3-D could be done for around $40m... it might be bloody tight but it could be done!
I'm personally not a great fan of the Cursed Earth storylines, never found them particularly interesting, the Big Meg always was the focal point of any of the best JD storylines, whether they be epic or one-shot, but it would make sense from a narrative perspective in regards any sequel to expand Dredd's world to explore the wastelands outside the boundary walls of the city...
You can ignore the previous and just click this picture :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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And remember to send an e-mail if you haven't already...
http://judgetutorsemple.wordpress.com/2013/05/24/want-a-sequel-to-alex-garlands-dredd/