Judge Dredd Movie is Green Lit!

[Peter Wolf]

Yeah,

But..

It wasn't the psychic-policing angle that made it pish.

No it was the ridiculous jet pack chase scene that ruined the film when i watched it.

[Floyd-the-k]

very late to this thread, but....
 it's good news. I have no idea what the best story would be, but Dredd is a great character and there's a lot of good stuff to choose from. My wish list is pretty negative, ie:
- hope it's not as bad as most of the other movie
- hope they don't get a successful Dredd story and film it with mindless accuracy. I'm thinking here of The Russian in The Punisher movie - in the comic he was great fun, in the movie, looking as much like the comic as possible, he was just silly...it was like having a blue-haired movie Superman.
- hope it's better than T4 (sorry, Terminator Salvation), which I saw today and which was, all up pretty ordinary

yours up early in the morning with possible swine flu, or at any rate, flu which isn't doing much for my mood

[flintlockjaw]

Probably the best approach is not the huge Blockbuster approach. I'd rather just prefer a 'Dirty harry' type story for the first Dredd movie and then maybe, Judge Death for the sequel.

[walrusmonkey]

It's funny, I was watching Total Recall last night and it struck me how very MC-1-like the Mars section of that movie was, stylistically.  

Particularly a few of the chase scenes - in the bar, with the mix of muties and hookers and just plain freaks, the comedy robot cab drivers and so on!  And of course the graphic violence.  I'm not sure you'd see a film depicting scifi that graphically now.  However, more lessons for the imaginary new Dredd movie scriptwriter who is of course reading this thread.

[dweezil2]

It's funny, I was watching Total Recall last night and it struck me how very MC-1-like the Mars section of that movie was, stylistically.  

Particularly a few of the chase scenes - in the bar, with the mix of muties and hookers and just plain freaks, the comedy robot cab drivers and so on!  And of course the graphic violence.  I'm not sure you'd see a film depicting scifi that graphically now.  However, more lessons for the imaginary new Dredd movie scriptwriter who is of course reading this thread.

Paul Verhoeven would be one of my choices for director. Though he'd probably think it too close in tone to Robocop to give it a shot.

[walrusmonkey]

Yeah he does BLACK humour so well, without sacrificing (apart from in Starship Troopers, where it's deliberate) the seriousness of the action.  Very 2000ad.

[vzzbux]

A good Wagner style story would suit me to the ground. Then give us a dimension 'plink' and a tall looming silhouette of a Judge after the end credits.






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[mogzilla]

has there been any proper news regarding this? or have rebellion seen it consigned to development hell?

[slickmoon]

I agree with others that it needs to show an overview of the city rather than be one straight plot, but it also needs a coherent thread for a movie to work.

We could have hours of fun thinking of possible sequences of events/loose plots that could work in that context. Here's mine:

Dredd's training, and capture of Rico
Death's arrival and entrapment within the Boing encased Anderson
Rico's return and showdown with dredd
The other Dark Judges arrive to release death and the film closes by following that story's resolution
All the above stages could also be separated by ultra short stories featuring arrests for public Boinging, Stookie Glanding and other MC1 oddities.

Possibilities are endless

[Roger Godpleton]

We could have hours of fun thinking of possible sequences of events/loose plots that could work in that context.

Try pico-seconds.

[Mardroid]

Yeah,

But..

It wasn't the psychic-policing angle that made it pish.

Or anything for that matter that made it pish. Cos it wasn't.

I'm not keen on Tom Cruise either, but that was a good film with a great twist ending and some wonderful dark humour. (The sandwich/milk scene and the rolling eyeballs? Heh.)

[Mardroid]

Don't get me wrong. I'm not suggesting the new Dredd film should be like Minority Report, that would be a mistake. Introducing the Psi-division is a good idea though, but I don't think the supernatural should be central to this film. As an introduction for (possible) later installments, maybe. (I'm not against supernatural stuff like the Dark Judges, just not in the first film.)

[walrusmonkey]

Yes. psy-division would be a helpful pivot to introduce crazier supernatural stuff later.  

And what about.. aliens and offworld trade, and all that other stuff?  For a planet supposedly in touch with alien civilizations Dredd's earth often strikes me as pretty un-alien.

[Steel Rabbit]

I was at a hotel this weekend in another part of Germany, and I saw the original (-ly terrible) Judge Dredd film dubbed into German...

It wasn't much better...

[ringmaster]

Hard to get excited about it-thought the first effort was effin awful, cast wise (Rob Schneider for ****'s sake?), and embarrasing to watch.

If it's gonna be done do the original Day the Law died series-with a build up/ explanation of the world that Dredd inhabits, not that portentious "dawn of the 3rd millenium guff" we endured at the bginning of the first travesty.

Her's a radical thought though-if no suitable cast can be found-CGI the bastard

That would be cool.  Go on, this Krill tro Thargo demands it.....