I heard about this a while back on AICN... does anybody know if the rumoured directors cut is actually going to happen?
- JC
Link: THE JUDGE DREDD STREET SIM
only if the blig blue computer can digitally etch out stallone and replace him with a young clint eastwood.
oh can can the directors cut be done done by a differnt director? lets be honest dannys version sucked.
You know, they do say Hugh Jackman is like a young Clint. Just a thought.
The production design was briliant in parts but on the whole the sorry mess of egos and ideas that was Judge Dredd the movie is best left well alone.
Well, well alone.
Well, I enjoyed the movie - not as a faithful adaptation of Dredd, but as a sci-fi movie in its own right. Face it, through - would a storyline more faithful to the comic Dredd have been any more popular? Probably not... at least not popular enough for anything other than a straight to DVD release (as the Shoreline Dredd movies might end up being, sadly - IF they ever get made)
- JC
I dunno - thats got a touch of the Hollywood "the public will only buy the same old crap" attitude about it. The film was panned cos it was contradictory, rushed, confused and plain rubbish. If Dredd had been done as the comic -(a hilarious, outrageous black comedy/uber action flick with a hero whos more of a threat than the villians) I reckon it would have caught the eye of a lot more people - at least it would have stood out from the crowd instaed of following Hollywoods usual fastfood formula. The biggest sci-fi films always break the formula in some way surely? Star wars, Blade Runner, Alien, The Matrix etc. all gave audiences something new.
At a local auction near me on Friday, a Judge Dredd movie (I think) poster will be up for sale.
What should I pay, anyone?
(BTW I can just about watch the film and enjoy it, if I clench my teeth and try not to climb a clock tower with a high-powered rifle.
It wasn't bad. It just wasn't 2000AD.)
The poster is for auction as part of a lot which includes other stuff likely to go for much more, so I'm not holding out much hope of being able to afford it.
Just asking out of interest.
Anyone help?
- Trout
The problem with the movie is that it abandons all the comics iconography early on and turns into a bog standard action film. When Stallone abandons his uniform for a boiler suit you know you're in trouble. (And apparently Stallone had to fight to get as much as we got - everyone else thought it was a good excuse to make 'Demolition Man 2'!)
But it only needed about three story changes to make it work - first, dump the 'emotional arc' stuff (including Fargo - one of the great things about Dredd in the comics is that he's the sort of character you never get in the movies - a cop who does it exactly by the book); second, make Griffin as much of a loon as Cal; third, do Rico faithfully to Prog 30 - just back from Titan and out for revenge.
Whether a better movie would have been a hit I don't know. Hit movies don't need to be necessarily good or bad, they just need to have some unguessable quality that an audience responds to. Dredd: the Movie is about as mediocre as Gladiator, but Gladiator clicked and Dredd didn't.
I'd say the reason Gladiator clicked is because there was a vision to the film - that is, you sensed the movie was a coherent approximation of the writers and directors intentions to tell a fairly simple story. The behind scenes friction between producers, director, writers and star are up on screen for all to see in Dredd
There was an interesting suggestion on that Brit horror site linked for us recently, Richard (Hardware) Stanley doing a low budget Dredd. Could have worked.
With regards to The Watcher's coments, never a truer word said.
As for the release of a director's cut would there really be a market for it?