Judge Dredd Reboot!! - Part 1

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

I just hope with this new movie they havent the marketing too late with this movie, I mean we are only 3 months away from it coming out and we only just got our first trailer. Hopefully the marketing will ramp right up now.

Originally Posted by Pittman4Two

In a dark tone, Stallone could've pulled it off easily.

Stallone definately has the acting chops to have pulled off a dark version, but I think the studio would have never allowed it, shame, it had potential.

[Rowsdower!]

Well, I personally thought the film was pretty terrible, but the funny thing is that it came out against the first Schumacher Batman film, which also sucked and was every bit as cheesy and fake looking as Dredd. Yet, that movie made a ton of money and people loved it for some reason. Maybe it's just name recognition, but I personally think that movie was even worse than Dredd.

[Pittman4Two]

Batman Forever was...ok.

There is a similarity to my post earlier between these two. I believe Val Kilmer, at that time, could have made a darker Batman if the script called for it.

[Brian Braddock]

If you combined the huge budget, fantastic sets, amazing fx and very respectable supporting cast from the Stallone movie with this movie and then factored in Judge Death, we'd pretty much have a perfect Dredd movie.

[obin_gam]

Motion poster has come online! Watch it here: http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=34453

I dont get why they just dont .gif these :/ stupid flash

[chamber-music]

I only realized Ian Dury of the Blockheads was in the Stallone Judge Dredd movie.
Andy Serkis of Lord Of The Rings fame did a awesome job playing Dury in his biopic

[Brian Braddock]

Yup; he was the store owner that Rico killed, wasnt he?

[chamber-music]

Originally Posted by Brian Braddock

Yup; he was the store owner that Rico killed, wasnt he?

Yep. poor git.

[FVD]

Is it just me or is Lena Headey f'n sexy when she plays villainous characters? God I love 'er!!!

[chamber-music]

Screenwriter Alex Garland said at the Dredd pannel at the London Film and Comic Con yesterday that DREDD will need to make at least $50 million at the North American box office in order to make a sequel a possibility.

His second Dredd movie would take Judge Dredd to the Cursed Earth and the third would have the Dark Judges as the villains.

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Lets hope we get that trilogy then, $50 million isnt that much at the BO these days but with the movie not having any stars and the marketing starting late it could be a tall order, lets hope the movie opens at around $30 million as if it does I think we can safely say sequel.

[Brian Braddock]

Yup,

Still hopeful of a Doug Jones Judge Death [or a 'DJJD', if you will ] in the sequel too.

[the_ultimate_evil]

Originally Posted by chamber-music

Screenwriter Alex Garland said at the Dredd pannel at the London Film and Comic Con yesterday that DREDD will need to make at least $50 million at the North American box office in order to make a sequel a possibility.

His second Dredd movie would take Judge Dredd to the Cursed Earth and the third would have the Dark Judges as the villains.

booooooooooooooooooooooo

we need the dark judges in 2, we can't take that chance


though if its the angel gang again it better bloody have fink

[metaphysician]

Originally Posted by rogue trooper

What's important is that it stays true to the tone of the comic. Solomon Kane didn't have villains from the original Robert E. Howard-written stories, but it still stayed true to the spirit of the property.

Gonna have to deeply disagree with that. Solomon Kane should *not* be about a personal quest of spiritual redemption.

[chamber-music]

Originally Posted by metaphysician

Gonna have to deeply disagree with that. Solomon Kane should *not* be about a personal quest of spiritual redemption.

Well Michael Bassett did Solomon Kane as an origin movie.

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Originally Posted by Brian Braddock

Yup,

Still hopeful of a Doug Jones Judge Death [or a 'DJJD', if you will ] in the sequel too.

Ha ha, like what you did there, yeah Garland has said the Dark Judges would be in a 3rd movie, so bit of a wait even if this one is successful.

Originally Posted by chamber-music

Well Michael Bassett did Solomon Kane as an origin movie.

Dont know much about SK personally but I thought that movie was done really well.

[zanos]

the trailer was terrible, and that's usually the best part of most films today.

[obin_gam]

Dredd was screened at SDCC and Total Film has first impressions:

2000 AD aficionados can rest easy - Judge Dredd's latest cinematic outing is brutally true to its comic book source and a vast improvement on Sylvester Stallone's universally loathed 1995 interpretation.

Last night, fans at San Diego's Comic Con were treated to a preview screening of the Alex Garland-scripted, Pete Travis-directed Dredd and breathed a collective sigh of relief as a lean, mean Dredd laid violent waste to scum in a gritty, grubby Mega-City One. And kept his helmet on throughout.

Despite rumours of rifts during production, Garland and Travis have created a horribly gorgeous vision of dystopian future where monolithic housing towers are run by criminal gangs - and policing is undertaken by judge/jury/execution officers, Judges. Cue Dredd (Karl Urban) a no-nonsense hardass who's got a psychic rookie, Anderson (Olivia Thirlby), tagging along for his shift.Called out to tower block Peach Trees to investigate some splattered body parts, Dredd and Anderson find themselves trapped in a Raid-esque running battle, fighting their way up - one run-down filthy floor at a time - to gang leader Ma-Ma (Lena Headey).

Urban certainly has the downturned mouth and super-cool, gravelly delivery to pull off Dredd's nonchalance but he's aided by Garland's smart, fast script, a relentless flow of Rorschach Test blood sprays from bone-shattering brutality, eye-poppingly beautiful 3D visuals and peppy banter with Thirlby.

The body count is high, the humour grim and the violence stylishly graphic and reminiscent of Sin City (scenes involving a drug called Slo-Mo are visually intoxicating). And that famous headgear stays resolutely on. Perhaps ready for Dredd 2? According to Garland there are two other Dredd adventures he's ready to write - based on this fast and hard outing, audiences may well be wanting more of the law...

Exactly what we wanted to hear!


EDIT:
from Firstshowing.net

Dredd 3D - Uh yea, that was awesome. Badass, loved it. Yes, the helmet never comes off. Liked it more than The Raid, a lot more, honestly.

[obin_gam]

More twitter reactions (courtesy of the neogaf-forums)

@colliderfrosty:
DREDD was a super hard R and a lot better than I thought it would be. Again....super hard R. 3D was also great.

@JHoffman6:
On a pop fascist level DREDD makes STARSHIP TROOPERS look like BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN #SDCC

@alllyourfriends
#Dredd was amazing

@TexasTechWrekem
#Dredd was a mix between Crank and The Raid which means it was awesome! Expect my review tomorrow on @MovieBuzzers

@TorturedXGenius
2 outta 3 of my favorite bloggers i follow liked #DREDD a lot....this is good.

@JHoffman6
Props to Lena Heady: her few center stage moments are tremendous. Great villain. #Dredd #SDCC

@alllyourfriends
Dredd was honestly the best movie I've seen this year.

@Ethan_Anderton
DREDD is brutal, bloody and a bad ass blast of old school action. I was skeptical and ended up being highly entertained.

@filthysize
Just saw DREDD. It's all right. Wafer thin story, but violent as all *beep* with a great attitude to it. Less scifi, more cop. #SDCC

@Bilal_Mian
Was Dredd really that good? The buzz is making me go WTF

@empiremagazine
Dredd Goodd. Longer reaction to come soon, followed by the full Empire review. We're that drokking efficient.

[Brian Braddock]

Loving the reactions.

[Jick09]

I'm really surprised, I might say.
That's a good thing.

[drumsnotdead]

I'm officially excited

[OutOfBoose]

Glad it receives such a praise. We might expect more movies.

[Rowsdower!]

Yeah, the twitter comments are a positive sign.

Then, again... I remember a site posting a bunch of positive tweets after an advanced screening of Green Lantern...

[chamber-music]

Reactions sound good.

Empire Magazine/BBC Film critic Chris Hewitt liked it and his got good taste for these types of movies.