Judge Dredd Movie is Green Lit!

[Dandontdare]

Here's a idea....

The entire movie is filmed from the perspective of Judge Dredd.

You only see whats in front of him.

Right down to the rough outline of his helmet visor, and splatters of blood and mucus when perps get too close.

A bit like the sight your treated to when playing Judge Dredd Vs Death

That way you wouldn't need a actor that looked the part, just a very good stunt camera man wearing a head-mounted camera.

I might have said this earlier somewhere else on board on a similer thread and you all thought NO WAY.

It's never going to happen as a mainstream movie, but it's a pretty cool idea. I can see this as a good prog/meg one-off - a POV story with panel borders in the shape of the helmet visor, showing every thing from a Dredd eye-view (including bionic enhancements!) 

(incidental plug for Peep Show, which starts again on channel 4 tonight (in UK - sorry TS) I love the way they play with that POV idea - every shot is "seen" by Jez or Mark)

[IAMTHESYSTEM]

There was an episode of the X-Files that was made in the style of Cops the real life Police show.

Maybe the film should be like that using hand held camera's ,washed out bluey/red tones and general grimy Ridley Scott note too everything. Even the massive Mega City could be a washed out behind a layer of L.A type smog. Face it it would be cheaper on the Budget and Matte painters like Dylan Cole and Seung Ho Henrik Holmberg do wonderful work.

[HdE]

I love this idea! 24 hours on patrol with Judge Joseph Dudley Dredd! Excellent!

[JOE SOAP]

Here's a idea....

The entire movie is filmed from the perspective of Judge Dredd.

You only see whats in front of him.

Right down to the rough outline of his helmet visor, and splatters of blood and mucus when perps get too close.

A bit like the sight your treated to when playing Judge Dredd Vs Death

That way you wouldn't need a actor that looked the part, just a very good stunt camera man wearing a head-mounted camera.

That's a gimmick, not a film.

[Peter Wolf]

Here's a idea....

The entire movie is filmed from the perspective of Judge Dredd.

You only see whats in front of him.

Right down to the rough outline of his helmet visor, and splatters of blood and mucus when perps get too close.

A bit like the sight your treated to when playing Judge Dredd Vs Death

That way you wouldn't need a actor that looked the part, just a very good stunt camera man wearing a head-mounted camera.

That's a gimmick, not a film.

Exactly.

The idea is effective in small doses like in Robocop or Terminator when it is some kind of enhanced digital vision with an interface but not for a whole film.

It just wouldnt work.Forget it



It would be like night vision where your peripheral vision is restricted .It might also show up the inadequacies and restrictions of wearing a JD helmet which is something i have sometimes found myself thinking about.

[vzzbux]

The Judge helmet would probably project an internal image of the outside world so the limitance (is that a word? it is now) of the helmet sight design wouldn't matter. Future technology is a wonderful thing.







V

[HdE]

Yeah - I'm not sold on the 'Dredd's eye view' approach. But if a movie took the approach of one of those dire '24 hours on patrol with the wildest police videos of the new criminal era on ice' type shows, that could be fun. Especially if some big mutant Cursed Earth beastie showed up in MC-1. It'd be like getting a little burst of Cloverfield in the middle of the movie! But, y'know - one of the good bits. 

[Roger Godpleton]

I'm not having any of that Dredd's eye shit in my fucking Dredd movie that I'm directing. They had that in the Doom movie and that movie was gay. Gay like Slaine.

[HdE]

Snnrk! Pfft!

Okay, so the Dredd-o-vision isn't winning any fans (or me, for that matter) - but shaky cam?

In fact, don't the Lawmaster bikes record surveillance footage? Sure I read that in Dredd somewhere.

[Kerrin]

Is it true they're doing this in Claymation?

[HdE]

Nah, I heard it was gonna be South-Park-o-mation.

[Eric Plumrose]

Nah, I heard it was gonna be South-Park-o-mation.

Too expensive. They should animate Alan Grant's wee stick figures.

[TordelBack]

They should animate Alan Grant's wee

I thought that was Ian Gibson's job?

[Eric Plumrose]

They should animate Alan Grant's wee

I thought that was Ian Gibson's job?

Well, if they're gonna splash out . . .

[Tiplodocus]

Was watching telly the other night and came across a couple of good chins in Strictly Come Dancing.


Anton  - he'd be great as Dredd if he could just stop grinning like a loon