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I'm relatively new to Judge Dredd, I only have 2 issues of the megazine and 7 issues of 2000AD...

so like Batman has the Joker and Two-Face etc...
who have been Judge Dredd's main enemies/nemeses over the years that he's been in print?

...so my problem is; I'm talented, but in my life I want to pursue various avenues of creative endeavors;
1) I want to be an auteur i.e. scriptwriter and director.
2) I'd love to be a freelance journalist and reviewer.
3) I want to get novels published.
4) I'd love to script comic books like 2000AD.

Although I come up with the necessary ideas I have no idea how I get from A to B/here-to-there career-wise in regards to the things I've listed above.

I've just finished university where I got a 2:1, and at the moment I only have plans to work, work on some scripts, and then do an MA next year in Film.


Does anyone have any advice?
it would be greatly appreciated.

Has anyone seen that 'official' poster for the Kane & Lynch movie adaptation which is apparently in cinemas in 2011? The cast for the movie has been confirmed to be Bruce Willis and Jamie Foxx!

http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/images/kane-and-lynch-poster1.jpg

This whole business has got me thoroughly p*ssed off!!!
Although I've only played this great game a few times on the occasion I've been at a friends house, as an aspiring director, scriptwriter and general auteur I could see the filmic potential for the adaptation of the game instantly e.g. An odd couple pair of ultimate hardmen convicts in a film to rival Michael Mann's Heat if done affectively.
But this adaptation promised for 2011 seems terrible;
A) first of, if this is the poster, its terrible, have they seen the film posters for the console game? Have they seen the covers?
B) so Bruce Willis was a given if you're going to cast this film...but then;
1) Jamie Foxx is cast as Lynch??? when Willis could be made to look the spit of Lynch! Plus, whats with the buddy-movie, black-guy + white-guy, Lethal Weapon pairing? why not stick to the games? what is this, Men in Black 5?!! Plus the guys in silhouette on the poster don't even look like Willis and Foxx...or Kane and Lynch for that matter!!!
C) so this is the thing that reeaaalllyyy frustrates me the most......
Willis is, to me, evidently the 'should-have' for the role of Lynch (not Kane!)


(Lynch)


(Willis)

They're also missing a trick in not casting Timothy Olyphant as Kane! not only does he look like the character, the actor has also had a gun-toting role-experience in Hitman and Crazies to some extent. But if Olyphant fails to float your boat, then two other 'left-field' actors who could play the role well and look the part would be Michael Keaton or Robert Patrick.


Kane


Timothy Olyphant


Michael Keaton


Robert Patrick

PS What's more Quentin Tarantino should stop being so self indulgent and 2nd rate whilst writing Kill Bill 3 and script and direct Kane & Lynch!

Hi all,
I'm a 25 year-old film (and general) geek. I've loved comics since I was young.
In my late teens I temporarily turned into a teenage werewolf and lost my way abit. However in my mid 20s I have resumed my geeky ways have returned with a vengeance (as if I was experiencing somekind of teenage fugue); stigmatism, ill fitting glasses, extensive comic and dvd collection etcetera...

As a kid I used to be fascinated with Judge Dredd, but only bought the odd Dredd Megazine and watched the Hollywood Stallone vehicle...

Having rewatched Spaced this year with its numerous references to 2000AD, I remembered my childhood interest and invested in some issues of the Dredd megazine once more, and recently bought the last 8 weeks-worth of 2000AD progs, making it my preferred Judge Dredd publication.

Being the aforementioned film geek I am, I love the way the character of Judge Dredd can be seen as an amalgam of various filmic characters. With Dredd's snarling prowess and embodiment of justice I'd liken him to Clint Eastwood's 'Man with no name' the western 'gun-for-hire', or Harry Callahan from the Dirty Harry movies - Dredd is the 'enforcer' - the 'lawgiver' of Mega-City-One, enforcing faceless justice in a way that rivals and often succeeds the like of Bale's growling Batman. And of course, if you wish, Dredd can be a Bruce Willis type hardman or a Stallone action-hero.

My only hope is that Karl Urban (not a man I would have picked for the job) and the forthcoming DREDD film deliver the goods.