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>>I don't mind off-topic but if you start doing half a dozen threads of the same nonsense it will wear a bit thin.

I imagine that, if you're one of the people who chooses to read the board by getting every new message emailed to you, this whole thing is already wearing very thin indeed.

 

And next up on our Happiness & Sunshine tour of  the British Isles, following on from the Unpleasantly Gloating Irishman and the Slightly Uptight Englishman, comes the obligatory Scotsman With A Chip On His Shoulder.

How long, I wonder, until the jolly Holiday Home-Burning Welshman puts in an appearance and completes the set?

Willy: "Do you have any idea how much of a silly twat you look in that thing?"

Bloke with bandana and hammer: "Shut it, ponytail boy, or you'll be learning how to play guitar with all your knuckles broken."

>.That said, I'm not sure that Mill's wrote Dredd as a 'hero'.

He certainly did, in the early days, most notably in The Cursed Earth, when Dredd was proabably at his most human and heroic ever.

That said, the last time I recall Pat writing Dredd was the 'Rico remix' story he did at the time of the movie's release.  IIRC, he seemed to have more sympathy for Rico than Dredd, portraying Rico more as a rebel against the system this time round, and Dredd as the authoritarian stooge.

Thta was eight years ago, and I suspect Pat's feelings on this portrayal of Dredd would probably only have intensified over the years.

Frankly, I think a Mills Dredd screenplay would be an unmitigated disaster.

If you;re going for a droid-written screenplay, John, or John & Alan, would surely be the one to go for.

I know I'm pretty much a lone voice in the wilderness here, but I actually liked the Urban Strike strip.

It had a knowing sense of humour about it, quite aware of how gung-ho and ludicrious the premise of the Strike games was, and was quite blatantly taking the piss out of whole cheesy computer game tie-in comic strip thing.

And it had helicopters flying through underground railway tunnels several years before the idiotic finale of the first Mission Impossible film.

The running gag with the nun was also quite funny, I thought.

Maybe they could do a Big Finish audio version too, based on the comic strip adaption of the novelisation of the computer game of the....

>>I've deliberately set the story in 2022

oops.  that should read 2122, of course.

>>I seem to remember that the game will tie in to current Dredd continuity

I'm afraid it doesn't, but it would be rather difficult to do so anyway.  While Dredd continuity keeps moving on, the game's storyline would have been fixed sometime last year, and there could have been no way of knowing that far in advance what the continuity situation would be in the comic strips when the game comes out this September/October.

In the novelisation I'm writing, I've deliberately set the story in 2022 - three years ago, in Dredd continuity terms - to explain at least one major anomoly between what happens in the game and what's happened in the comic strip within the last year or so.  

It's probably worth pointing out that the book is a novelisation of the Dredd computer game rather than being an original Dredd novel (if you see what I mean) but wherever possible I've tried as much as I can to tie the story into DRedd universe continuity.

I've just seen a pubful of 'tics in tears on the news.

Oooh, my aching sides....

>>I have a feeling that this whole movie was nothing more than a way of setting up the next one.

Get away!

Finally saw it tonight.

Cor, wasn't Zion a load of old bollocks?  If fighting for the future of the human race means fighting for nothing more than the right to have what looks like a big E'd up rave....


....then, frankly, I'm rooting for the machines to win in Revolutions.

You've misspelled the name on the badge, surely?

If it's siku, shouldn't it say 'DREED'?

Fans of Robbie's Dredd stories featuring emotionally scarred children in peril might also want to check out the one-off Judge Wynter story he did years ago for a Mega Special.

Its closing scene, featuring the line something like "I buried a child yesterday.  I won't have to bury any more." and the shot of moody Judge Wynter walking away somehow came to mind again when reading the last ep of Hard Day's Night...  ;->

As much as I adore the lovely Famke (and Famke fans should check out her top totty performances in Deep Rising and House on Haunted Hill) I can't help noticing she's sucking her stomach in in that first piccie...

>>'You know how to whistle don't you, just put your lips together and blow.'

Wrong movie.  That's 'To Have And Have Not'.