EXCLUSIVE - FIRST STILL FROM DREDD!

[vzzbux]

I don't log on for over 24 hours and this comes on. Just speed read 12 pages and seemed to have misses the dreaded one.
I personally thing they have done an arsom job. Helmet is bang on any smaller and you risk a broken nose. The more I look at the uniform in general the more I like, very old skool on the shoulder pad. Badge too close the 95 movie but I can live with that. Looks like a Mk II Lawgiver and a fine job they have done of it too.
Overall I am very happy






V

[Steve Green]

After a fresh look at it, I think the combination of the doorway shadow, the shadow in the inside of the helmet are making it look more oversized than it is.

Comparing the helmets used for Minty and this one -

The closest angle I can find of Dan's version of the helmet is this

http://www.flickr.com/photos/40863689@N08/4003746451/in/photostream/

There are something like 5 helmets we have at varying sizes - 'Minty's' helmet is the widest as we found the others were too tight for Edmund. The main problems are trapping the ears, and the tip of the nose pressing against the visor.

I don't mind the collar/body armour look, although I wonder if it's just going to make him look tubby - and the body armour could have been a bit sleeker, possibly?

Still not sold on the shoulder pad, it feels like a bit of an afterthought.

[Pete Wells]

Yeah, I like it. The helmet looks very much like Carl Critchlow's design which is a good thing and last night I spent a while comparing the still with a bunch of Cliff Robinson covers and it's pretty much spot on.

The nerd in me agrees with the stuble issue but I'm not going to get too upset over that, as Matt said, it's just a rehearsal pic. Also, I reckon he has got an eagle on that right shoulder, just not a big, cumbersome tacky looking thing that our Dredd has. Agian, a good thing in my book.

Happy days!

[Kev Levell]

I think it will look fine, especially for the inevitable movie adaption comic...

This is a really quick and possibly wrong extrapolation of what I think we are looking at in the still.



I also think the respirator will pull down to create a fully enclosed helmet as per the inset... don't know about the mechanics of it, but it'll look pretty cool, certainly quite menacing if Dredd was striding out of some gas-filled underpass.

I'm already this excited and we're still more than a year away from release...

Thought I'd just share (again) my speculative concept from Feb 09... I think what we've got is a lot better than that... although lots of similarities.

[Teivion]

WOW!
Flicked through the bulk of the posts, glad its gone down well.

This is great as now I can 'confess' what Ive been itching to say for yonks ;-)

In October 2009 I was invited to meet Andrew Macdonald and Alex Garland at DNA HQ, to show them the Judge Minty stuff I produced.
Meeting with the awesome costumer Darren Beddows, who came down from t'up North , and who wore the costume so well for us In the BHam comic cons, I spent an hour with them in London discussing my work in relation to the role of the Judge uniform in the film, (as Darren modeled, pulled Dredd faces and looked butch)

They agreed the helmet design was 'Gospel' and wouldn't change, although the pads etc would probably go. The key work used a lot was 'Mad Max' for the leathers, body armour, and also grittyness.
They requested a beaten up Judge helmet, that had to look like metal, so I supplied them with a photo set of the helmet I produced for the Minty Sign, and, earlier this year, DNA contacted me to borrow the 'Greg Staples' hero helmet which went off to unknown territories for a month or so.

I have had a pre-production pic of Jocks first ever costume design for the Judges uniform since the meeting, so this has come out almost spot on, meaning the vision they had all along was a good one !
Seeing this photo I am really, really glad its gone down well as I was really worried without the traditional pads people may not like it.
Sadly, so far in the film that's been the only role I have played, but there is always Post Production ;-)

[nicklarr]

Soo cool to hear that DNA were in touch with the Minty-crew!
You must be proud to have inspired the movie-creators and even borrowing the helmet to them. Very interesting reading!  

[Danbo]

Thats very good to know,shows they give a shit.Now will somebody please start mass producing the helmets so i can buy one?
@Teivion
I know you probably can't and i fully understand but i have to ask or i'll kick myself...any chance we could see that jock pic you were on about? and if not does it have an eagle on the right shoulder?  

Although i lie the new look i  would like the uniform to evolve to a more traditonal look with the pads in future films(if they make any more obv) though,when Jo Public gets used to Dredd

[JOE SOAP]

I have had a pre-production pic of Jocks first ever costume design for the Judges uniform since the meeting, so this has come out almost spot on, meaning the vision they had all along was a good one !

Did Jock's design have an eagle shoulder pad?


I whould have preferred if they'd steered clear of the Stallone badge which they've lifted wholesale, could they not even have given it a convex curve so that it pushed out like Ezquerra's?

[Gavin_Leahy_Block]

Thanks for the information Teivion, great to see they also appreciated all the hard work going into the Minty film.

[IAMTHESYSTEM]

Whoa, great news from Teivion about the Minty films influence on the Production design.

KevLev's got to be the artist for the comic version of the film.

[JOE SOAP]

Whoa, great news from Teivion about the Minty films influence on the Production design.

KevLev's got to be the artist for the comic version of the film.

so you don't want Jock, who has all ready done a script comic?

[Danbo]

It''s like someone else said above,he looks like Boba Fett,the armour is very similar in shape,bit bulkier.With the resperator down the helmet,in the drawing above looks like it could be out of Star Wars,hes even got the t shirt over his suit like Boba by the looks...Comic book Dredd crossed with Boba Fett = this IMO and thats going to look very cool on the big screen.I can see why they have done it much as i hate to admit it 

[IAMTHESYSTEM]

   Jocks done a script comic?

Already?!!

[Teivion]

Yes,
Jocks initial work was taking the script into a storyboard, which was done in a comic book style.
This was at the meeting too ;-)

[pauljholden]

I hate everyone that was at that meeting.

(Not really... I wish I was there...)

-pj