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Is Dredd a remake of The Raid?
I guess I'm gonna have to take some shots.
Is Dredd a remake of The Raid?
Is Dredd a remake of The Raid?
This may be a feeble example, since it's waay back, but the first Highlander also flopped in its theatrical release, but because the home video was a hit, it got a sequel. Could such a thing happen to Dredd?
The market is a bit different these days. Aside from piracy, where direct dvd/blu-ray rips are available online as soon (if not before) they hit the shops, you also have satellite/cable showing the films not long after that to rent, or they are aired on their own movie channels soon after as well.
Back in the 80's you either saw a film in the theatre, bought or borrowed an (almost always) terrible cam copy, or rented /bought the Video when it came out (which generally took a fair bit longer than the current few months). Getting aired on TV (or Cable) would usually come quite some time after that (could take a good few years for a major film to hit terrestrial tv).
That being said there still is enough money from the DVD/Blu-Ray market to help a theatrical flop get a sequel (especially if the critics liked it), but it remains to be seen if the punters passing on seeing this in the theatres will bother much later on either.
Everything is a remake to everybody these days. You create a new property the first question is "what is it based on?"
I'm very curious to see how it will perform in France. I know in France comic books of the genre of science-fiction, like those done by Moebius and other stuff from Metal Hurlant(which influenced Blade Runner and The Fifth Element), are hugely popular. So, I wonder if something of a similar genre like Dredd will draw in people there, although I'm not positively sure if it's opening there or not.
It's true. I work with a man in his 40's who fits the general public demo. He tried to convinced me that 'Looper' was based on a comic.
Actually...There was a future shock short story in 2000 AD a good while back that covered the same basic premise: A hitman in the 'present' (story was set in a future where time travel was possible) is unknowingly hired to kill his future self.
In the short story he was basically sent to a future point (he did not know what point in time it was) where he simply had to kill the next man turning a corner where he had been sent, then he was returned to his own time.
The twist for that story was that is was only after killing the target did he realise it was himself, and knew he resigned to the fact that no matter what he did he would eventually turn that same corner and be killed by his younger self (self fulfilling time loop paradox).
Technically that's not paradoxical. There is no impossibility or contradiction at work, just the weirdness of killing your own future self. However, if he tried to avoid it, that *would* induce a paradox. . .