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No reason the uniform can't change and develop in (hopefully) sequels. The Batman costume changed for every film, sometimes a little too...uh... quirky 

I think the point that MC-1 is primarily an impoverished, dirt-poor city and people would be driving crappy old models makes perfect sense. I inferred from Wagner's comment that maybe as it happens early in the film, it's not immediately apparent that this it is set in the future until it gets into 'Dreddworld' and therefore could be a bit jarring to newbies.

I'm sure people will figure it out though. What with, you know, the whole Judges thing.

I'll wager they're going to really kick things off around the time of the next Batman film's release. My wagering has gone really well so far.

It's great that they actually addressed most of Wagner's concerns too. I wonder if Ezquerra has seen it?

It's still 3 1/2 months away. Calm down, people.

They're not actually sticking to calling it DR3DD are they?! Awful idea if so. Dredd is Dredd.

They could learn to do something at least. No promo/info at all is still unsettling. I do hope you're right that this is all part of a plan, even though it's quite unconventional.

There has been some promo/info though. Dredd was on the cover of Empire not too long ago, if memory serves. Even the R rating got coverage from a lot of places.

I wouldn't say it's unconvential. I'd place Dredd in a similar place to the likes of the recent Chronicle of even The Punisher films (crap as they were).

I don't think The Hobbit and Dredd are in the same ballpark in the hierarchy of upcoming movies.

They've released a couple of shots and info and it's all been reported on the net and in mainstream film magazines. There's still 3 1/2 months until the film's release. We're expecting a trailer any day now and from the sounds of it, we will be getting one pretty soon.

I'm not sure a film like Dredd even bothers with stuff like teasers. I think perhaps some fans (myself included) have a tendency to conflate Dredd as some massive film in the same league as Batman or Avengers and the fact of the matter is, it isn't (even though I'm sure it deserves to be!)

We're still a couple of months away. I would assume any big-time marketing they have planned will be for closer to the film's release date.

I'd guess they'd rather go for the 'short, sharp shock' type of marketing for this film and it makes more sense in my opinion.

The fact that so little info has been released and that led you to actually go in search of it means that, you know, not releasing loads of info is an effective means of sustaining some peoples interest.

You're also battling for media attention from current/soon-to-be-released juggernauts like Avengers, Batman, Prometheus and new trailers for franchises like Bond. Best to keep your head down and wait for those to die down a bit.

Maybe they'll try and parallel some of the forthcoming media storm from DKR. Another 'superhero'/comic book film that's real-world, dark and gritty and somewhat nihilistic. And the two characters have shared the page before (emphasised by the new Judge Dredd/Batman collection coming out soon).

At this rate we could start a bet on when the trailer hits.

I'm going to say... this Wednesday!

I think I can says, you lost your bet 

There's still time!! 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60EIN97gt88

There's a clip of Marvel Studios Kevin Feige being asked a question about Quim-Gate from a British journalist. I wonder did he even know what it was at the time?

I was a bit taken aback when I heard it in the cinema! Very effective delivery from Hiddleston as well 

So long as John Murphy's "In the House In a Heartbeat" doesn't feature. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSYYEDXaGo0

Don't get me wrong, it's a fantastic piece of music used to great effect in "28 Days Later".  When it was regurgitated in "28 Weeks Later" I felt the power of the song was dilluted, and when it turned up in "Kick Ass" it only infuriated me.  In what was a pivotal scene, I felt distracted, thinking as I was "oh, that's the music from '28 Days Later'".  I don't want to be thinking about other films when I watch "Dredd"!

Enough about what I don't want, how about something like this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSYYEDXaGo0

I always thought that was Godspeed You Black Emperor sampled.

Oh wait it is! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28_Days_Later:_The_Soundtrack_Album

"The second movement of "East Hastings" by the Canadian post-rock band Godspeed You! Black Emperor, albeit condensed, appeared in the movie but not on the soundtrack album."

At this rate we could start a bet on when the trailer hits.

I'm going to say... this Wednesday!

I'm sure the tinternet will be the first place to host a trailer.

Yup trailers generally come out on the net first these days.

I thought it was pretty good.

To be honest, I'm not a huge fan of Bryan Hitch and I read the first issue of Turf and didn't like it. But this was quite good for a first issue and I'll check out the second. It kind of reads like a Mark Millar idea but executed a bit more convincingly.

Hulk had a pretty good (and popular run) by bruce jones, i think, back in the early 2000s, and since then the character has seen one massively successful storyline after another- planet hulk, world war hulk, red hulk, etc. So it's a bit unfair to ask if anything good has been done since peter david!

SBT

Ha sorry, I came off sounding a lot more sarcastic than I meant! I think I read some of the Bruce Jones stuff actually, may have got that confused with David's run. I know some of those Hulk stories you mention were popular amongst the Marvel fanboys but in general I've heard 'em get berated more than praised. I'm happy to stand corrected on that however.

As an aside, I'm still waiting for a Hulk film directed by David Cronenberg 

Pity. I'd love to see more John Smith Hellblazer but it doesn't seem like it will happen.

Man-Thing would be interesting. Or The Hulk! (Has anyone done anything interesting with the Hulk since Peter David's time on the character?)