September 18th set for 'Make A Dredd Sequel' day of action!

[Mardroid]

I couldn't really justify buying a film I already own for the sake of it.

So I started thinking about getting the DVD as an early Christmas present. Trouble is, the only friend I think WOULD like it has already bought it for herself.

Anyhow, I took a chance and bought the DVD anyway for another mate. I'm taking a bit of a chance with him as I'm concerned the violence and language might offend him. On the other hand, it's really not all that bad from that POV (and I'm sure he's seen worse elsewhere). There's more of a chance that he just won't like the story, but we all take that chance when we watch a film for the first time, don't we?

[Steve Green]

Well good luck to them.

I'd already bought it twice on BR (One UK to give to a friend) and the US one, and also on iTunes for convenience + seeing it twice at the cinema (4 if you count the freebies)

I think I've done my bit for Dredd already - and I do worry this is just going to blow up in their faces when nothing immediately happens (if at all)

[JOE SOAP]

If anything were to happen I wouldn't expect it for at least another year.

[Steve Green]

Yeah, I know - I'm just expecting them to get a barrage of 'We did what you said, where's our sequel' questions.

I'm also very aware that there has been no direct communication from DNA themselves as far as I know - it's always been vague 'sources'.

[COMMANDO FORCES]

I think Joe knows something

[Steve Green]

It's all that time-travel.

[TordelBack]

I think Joe knows something

Well he is John Wagner, you know.

[JOE SOAP]

I read my own entrails every night- leaves me with a terrible creak.

[Goaty]

It can't work on yourself, only on other people's entrails.

[JOE SOAP]

It can't work on yourself, only on other people's entrails.

Typical 1st century thinking.

[Arkwright99]

Seeing as I finally got around to getting myself a BluRay player a couple of weeks ago it would seem now is the time to buy something to put in it. So, one copy of the Dredd BR duly ordered in support of Day of Dredd. 

[dracula1]

Fecking ace,  this is truly power to the people on the interweb. I get my Amazon Bluray tomorrow. Can't wait to watch Dredd for the fifth time tomorrow night:-)

[shaolin_monkey]

Well, impressive results, but as far as I'm concerned the campaign doesn't end there. I'll still be promoting it, and look forward to getting my t-shirt to wear proudly at all important occasions - interviews, weddings, funerals and suchlike.

[IndigoPrime]

Yeah, I know - I'm just expecting them to get a barrage of 'We did what you said, where's our sequel' questions.

Realistically, the problem is that there's clearly a demand, but a massive chunk of it is coming from the UK, which is a relatively small market. Had the DVD/Blu-Ray stormed up the US charts, that would have been helpful. The movie having arrived on Netflix probably doesn't help (although it might boost the brand's value).

The way this is looking to me is another Firefly. Dredd will be long remembered as a cracking piece of sci-fi, and it will continue to sell, odd bursts here and there from campaigns. People will look back in a decade and, regardless of the iffy initial reception, wonder why the hell someone didn't take the universe further on the big or small screen.

What we really need is some rich Russian or Arab who's a massive Dredd fan just flinging 50 million at a new production, just to see the next slice of the story.

[dracula1]

My early Crimbo presie