Judge Dredd Movie is Green Lit!

[Trout]

Wow. This thread is 53 pages long!

I'm not reading it.

- Trout

[PsychoGoatee]

Just read the damage report in Prog 1649 and I noticed the reference to Thomas Jane buying up a load of GN's.
Now if this is sign of casting to come, then I would support it, in substitute for my preferred choice of Kurt Russell.

Tom Jane is the man.

And yeah, we need more news on this move asap.

[JOE SOAP]

Can't wait for the tagline...JANE IS DREDD.

[Mike Gloady]

Wow. This thread is 53 pages long!

I'm not reading it.

- Trout

Oddly enough, my dear Trout, that's sort of what I was thinking.  Then I thought "I'll just have a lookie at the latest posts" and saw you, completely reading my mind.

Beware the psychic trout.  It's powers are terrible.

[Buddy]

I demand the following cast or I just might kill myself and it will be all your fault:

Dredd: Statham (duh)
Giant: Kimbo Slice
Anderson: Shannon Tweed
Judge Death: David Walliams
Pat Mills: George Clooney
Dolman: Ralf Little
Orlok: Will Mellor

wat utter rubbish dredd must be an unknown as we can't have him take his mask off or know wat his face looks like! Or were you jokin in the first place?

Mask?

[Spartan375]

Jane and Statham αare a bit sort for Dredd i believe.
And also expensive.

My personal ideal for giant in Samuel L. Jackson because he looked like Judge Giant when he played on Star Wars. But he is a bit old for he role now (and expensive too)...


I think there are many not-known actors on UK or US suitable for the roles.

And i also believe that the matter is not on the name or how much famous an actor is, but in how he can play his role nice and be like the character we love in comics as much as possible.


But really, is any new info for the movie available? 

Oh, and what happened to the guy who was dressed like Judge Dredd on some progs...???

[Dandontdare]

Oh, and what happened to the guy who was dressed like Judge Dredd on some progs...???

You may be thinking of the Judge Minty film - this is a low budget fan film, not the supposed Dredd project, but the images we've seen of it so far look so much better than anything in the Stallone turkey! Do a search for 'Minty' on this site and there's loads of threads and pics.

[Paul faplad Finch]

Jane and Statham αare a bit sort for Dredd i believe.

Just to clarify, you mean short right? Cos otherwise my post is meaningless.

I've never really thought of Dredd as a particularly tall man. He has an intimidating prescence but thats more to do with the aura he projects rather than physical size. Thats my take anyway and I'm sticking to it cos Dredd is gonna be played by Michael Biehn. So there.  

I refuse to give up on this dream.

And Idris Elba for any potential Giant.

Assuming it ever gets made. Whatever, I'm just glad this thread is active again because it came this close to having less posts than the John Byrne thread.

[Steve Green]

Nah, Spartan's talking about the costume that was used on cut-scenes for an old Playstation game.

There's some footage of it on Youtube.

For a relative unknown, I thought the guy who played Helo in BSG (Tamoh Penikett) would be pretty good for a young Dredd.

I don't think the physicality is the tricky bit. It's the voice.

I don't think we need another Christian Bale/Batman growlfest.

[Mike Gloady]

I don't think Dredd's size as such is an issue, I'd always imagined the character to be tall, but not huge and built but not to a body-builder degree.  The man would intimidate you just as much if he were sneering UP at you as glaring down. 

The presence and chin are about all you need, but annoyingly those are the hard bits to find.  And a voice like Toby Longworth would help - he just nailed the part in those audios and the game.

[James Stacey]

Dunno if anyone has put the name forward, hell maybe I already suggested him but how about Casper van Dien. Looks the part, cheap as hell and marginally better at acting than Stallone

[Goosegash]

I think I've mentioned this guy before:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0641244/

One of those actors who's played supporting parts in quite a few well-known films, but you wouldn't immediately recognise if you saw him. He's not the kind of big name star who would dent the film's budget, but I think he has the physical presence for the character and crucially he sounds like he uses gravel for mouthwash.

Just listen to his voice at 0:38 in this trailer:

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

[Wake]

Has the Alex Garland script leaked yet? Anyone read it?

Jock has read it and thinks it's great.

[Jim_Campbell]

Jock has read it and thinks it's great.

He can read? What sort of artist is he?

Cheers!

Jim

[JOE SOAP]

What I want to know is what John Wagner thinks of it?