Judge Dredd Movie is Green Lit!

[radiator]

From Jock on Twitter:

"working through script visuals for JUDGE DREDD movie. Alex Garland writes a great script."

[Jim_Campbell]

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

You should know, eh?

nudgenudgewinkwink

Cheers!

Jim

[Jim_Campbell]

From Jock on Twitter:

"working through script visuals for JUDGE DREDD movie. Alex Garland writes a great script."

++ Pedant Mode: On ++

I don't actually see a connection between those two sentences. They may be two entirely unconnected remarks!

++ Pedant Mode: Off ++

Cheers!

Jim

[JOE SOAP]

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

You should know, eh?

nudgenudgewinkwink

Cheers!

Jim

Bastich, i'm trying to re-establish cover.

[Mike Gloady]

Don't worry Garage, we won't tell.

[mogzilla]

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

You should know, eh?

nudgenudgewinkwink

Cheers!

Jim

Bastich, i'm trying to re-establish cover.

some one email wagner ,ask him to post a picture of him with a post it note on his forehead saying "i am not garageman or scojo "

[radiator]

From Slashfilm:

Garland's previous work for DNA includes The Beach, 28 Days Later and Sunshine. His next collaboration with them to see the light of day will be an adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go that Mark Romanek is currently shepherding through post production. Perhaps Romanek is the right director for Dredd? I'd like to think he'd do a wonderful job with it, judging from some of his music video work.

Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Romanek

Link: http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/09/08/comics-artist-jock-tweets-judge-dredd-and-the-losers-movie-news/

[HdE]

Having been away from the forum for a while, I hadn't been following this. Saw a few comments elsewhere on the net that seemed to suggest the movie wasn't going ahead after all - so I'm glad to see more chatter!

The world needs a decent Dredd movie. I need a decent Dredd movie.

I also need a 'pow-pow-pow' hot girlfriend who plays bass guitar and has hair as red and flowing as the fiery tale of a comet.


But that part's not really germane.

[DKCX]

Empire Movie Magazine following on the news
http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=25773

[HdE]

Ah! Link-y goodness! Thanks for posting that!

The tone of that article seems pretty cagey. But I hope this does go ahead. There's a goldmine of potential there.

And is it just me, or would Clint Eastwood be entirely the wrong person to play Dredd? Now, then - or ever?

[Mike Gloady]

And is it just me, or would Clint Eastwood be entirely the wrong person to play Dredd? Now, then - or ever?

Well, seeing as Eastwood's Dirty Harry character was (along with a Deathrace 2000 movie poster) one of the inspirations for the character of Dredd in the first place, I'd question the use of the "then" in that sentence (Rowdy Yates Con-Apt, Dredd's former home, was named after Eastwood's character in Rawhide).  Time was he'd have been the ONLY person to play Joe. 

Now?  Well, he does have the same sort of line in grizzled elderly hard-nuts as Dredd, but he wouldn't be on my list for playing the character, and I doubt he'd appear on many other people's.  Although I would rather the role be taken by someone over 40.  Or preferably over 50.  But that's me.

[Jim_Campbell]

And is it just me, or would Clint Eastwood be entirely the wrong person to play Dredd? Now, then - or ever?

If Clint was going to do an SF movie, I think I would have done. No, I don't count Space Cowboys, or whatever the fuck it was called.

That doesn't change the fact that Clint is Judge Dredd. I've always preferred the lean, rangy, McMahon, MacNeil, Doherty Dredd over the musclebound Bisley, Richardson, Critchlow, and -- to an extent -- Ezquerra Dredd ... for me, Dredd is Will Munny: he's a fantastically mean old bastard who'll kill you as soon as look at you.

Ain't gonna happen now, never was going to happen, but Eastwood is still the man.

(Mind you, I'm still gutted that the proposed radio adaptation of Dark Knight Returns with Eastwood as Bruce Wayne was nixed by the BBC a few years back ...)

Cheers

Jim

[JOE SOAP]

Empire the paragon of journalism:

Perhaps this shouldn't be so much of a surprise, given that Judge Dredd is a project nestling under the wing of Danny Boyle's DNA films.

Danny Boyle does not own, did not set up & has no say in DNA films cos he's only a freelance director who has been hired by them. No wonder I don't read this rag.

[Jim_Campbell]

Danny Boyle does not own, did not set up & has no say in DNA films cos he's only a freelance director who has been hired by them. No wonder I don't read this rag.

The same Danny Boyle who was quoted by Empire magazine itself as saying how shite he thought the first movie was and how disinterested he was in the prospect of another?

Cheers

Jim

[JOE SOAP]

The same Danny Boyle who was quoted by Empire magazine itself as saying how shite he thought the first movie was and how disinterested he was in the prospect of another?

at least that was true.