JUDGE DREDD GOES INTO PRODUCTION FALL 2010

[radiator]

re: The uniform/helmet, I think the best way to go would be to get Jock to design it, and allow him some freedom to modernise it as he sees fit - this may well be what has been done, I guess we'll find out pretty soon.

I think a lot depends on how they are approaching the film - if they are going for a Sin City/300 heavily stylised cgi look, then they can make the uniform as close to the comic as they want, but if they are going for the Dark Knight-esque realistic and gritty feel, then they will need to strip back the design a little and make it more practical looking.

Even those who argue that the uniform should remain unchanged must surely agree that whatever happens the bike and the gun need to be redesigned for the screen....

[judge cooper]

i say they should just leave the uniform and gadgets alone because it mighnt just make dredd a completly different person

[TordelBack]

Even those who argue that the uniform should remain unchanged must surely agree that whatever happens the bike and the gun need to be redesigned for the screen....

Agreed, but the DoubleWhammy setting and voice is sacrosanct.  Errr...

[Steve Green]

Bike, yeah as long as it's big and cool and heavily armed. Something batpod-ish would be great.

I don't see what's wrong with the MKII lawgiver for screen, it looks fine.

They redesigned it for the screen already and the MKII looks better than that.

[JOE SOAP]

I really don't think they need to stray that far at all to make Dredd and all his paraphenalia look good and cohesive to it's world. A lot of the so called "realism" we look for can be down to the texture of material used to make said gear, the lighting of it and the final "colour grade" that is applied in post production. The Spider-Man suit is a perfect example of this. They didn't change it from the original design at all but enhanced it through layered intricacy and good craft execution.

The Stallone Dredd was kind of the opposite to this idea. They sort of went mid way to redesigning the uniform then stopped at a certain point and went back to the original, then made it out of the wrong materials such as gaudy shiny gold plastic and tight nylons, so it ended up looking a bit gay -maybe Jean Paul Gautier wanted the codpiece, the gold and the stockings- it was a mish-mash of ideas and very ill-fitting, which is indicative of the mind-set of the '95 film production entire.


Ezquerra's original baroque design should always be the template.

[Jared Katooie]

Nothing changes. Everything must stay the same.

[Woolly]

Ezquerra's original baroque design should always be the template.

I agree. The original design would be perfect for the screen.

[Danbo]

Nearest you can get to the Dillon Dredd for me.

[JayzusB.Christ]

Jock all the way. I know Dredd's Ezquerra's baby but Jock's Dredd looks real already

[James]

Having the protagonist have his or her face covered for long periods of time never seems to work very well in my opinion (V For Vendetta, Spider-man/Green Goblin).

To be fair, V and Green Goblin both wore full face masks, a lot can be conveyed from the nose down; with the full face covered there's a lot of gesticulation when speaking to try and emphasise stuff. Same with Power Rangers.

[ghostpockets]

Ok here's my thoughts. I'm gonna go against the grain here and say I would definately like to see a scene with Dredd sans helmet.

Hold on, hold on, put down those torches... before you burn me hear me out.

Dredd's helmet is knocked off somehow and thereafter for the rest of that scene we see him from behind, in shadow or or the top half of his head obscured in some comedy way. The director could have some real fun with clever editing a la Bart's naked skateboarding in the Simpsons movie.  We've seen this kind of thing in the comics loads of times over the years, it would serve as a knowing wink to the fans as well as toying with our fears. Or maybe even a bit where he use a face changing machine to make himself look like Rondo Hatton... or even better Stallone! Yeah let the big man have a cameo.



I've gone too far.



I'll get my coat.

[dweezil2]

Seeing Dredd's face in silouette would be a good way to increase the character's mystique. Of course if the actor under the helmet is well known that would kind of defeat the object.

[Emp]

The one thing that absolutley, without doubt that has to change is the golden codpiece from stallones movie.
Its just wrong!

[ghostpockets]

Wasn't The Golden Codpiece the name of that film version of His Dark Materials?

[IAMTHESYSTEM]

I think their will be NO references at all to the 1995 Stallone Dredd film.

The DNA film makers will probably want a clean break making their Dreddy something entirely different. I think it might lean towards a brutal but fairly staright forward interpretation of the Justice System depicted in the Judge Dredd comic with Dredd battling enhanced criminals.

However they might try having a  more political message with Democratic terrorists being sort of the Good guys commiting heinous acts of violence to restore democracy. Of course Democracy brought about the atomic war's that have devastated this future so in the end the brutal authoritivism [is that a word?] of Dredd and the Judges wins in the end. Chillingly they might bite the bullet and say that one day democracy will be over and Mega City 1 is what's coming, the real future not the techno liberalisms of Star Trek.

This is an entirely new vision of Judge Dredd so will have almost nothing to do with the 1995 one. No ABC warriors, no Stallone walk on part and NO CODPIECE.