That would be awesome.I just got into Judge Dredd recently b/c Im trying to branch out more into comics besides the well known stuff.Ive recently read some of his stuff and its epic.An adult cartoon for dredd would be simply sickkkkkk

Dredd is a British Property….

I know what you mean, and I’m not fixated on that one at all, but I can see it maybe causing problems for them further down the line. The one thing I do agree with this screenplay about is not trying to handle something like the Judge Death storyline first time around. Dredd’s world has enough robot, mutant and alien madness to contend with as it is without throwing psychic powers straight into the mix, so I understand why they’ve scaled back on that.

However! The dynamic between Dredd and Anderson in the comic depends on her being part of a separate unit. She’d never get away with talking to Dredd the way she does, or expressing some of the views she has openly, if she were a lone psychic rookie. That’s a far more interesting character to me.

I’ll be optimistic though: maybe it turns out there are more psychic judges knocking about than they thought, and she’s instrumental in establishing Psi Division. That’d do.

I also find it annoying when they change little details like that in adaptations but I just have to accept that these are just Fan Boy Quibbles that no-one else will really notice.

And LOL, yes indeed – I really had to bite my tongue not to hijack this thread (again) when we’re supposed to be talking about how Karl Urban fits in all this! It’s in the lap of the Judges now…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peach_Tree_War

Yeah it is important that they get MC1 right, but remember a script is just a blueprint. A lot more detail can be put in the final product.

Lets try to forget that 1995 movie and look to the future with some hope.

I think the 1995 movie bombing led to caution and the low budget on this one. You’re right that Dredd and Anderson are portrayed quite well, but no amount of tinkering with peripheral details will salvage a hackneyed plotline. I hadn’t heard Wagner was involved: what kind of background material did you mean? Not naming the Blocks after celebrities sounds like a satirical detail they missed straight off! What was the Peach Tree/historic event you mentioned?

I realise the financial risk in giving any audience an unknown quantity, but to me it’s an equal risk to hope that a formulaic storyline hits the mark simply because of a few extra bells and whistles. Likewise though – I’d love to see this do well enough to warrant a sequel they could go berserk on. At some point I want to hear Urban or SOMEone deliver that line “Gaze into the fist of Dredd!”…

I’m convinced that at least part of the reason the original bombed was that it came out just a year after Demolition Man, which had Stallone and Rob Schneider playing broadly similar characters, and actually did the “satire on dystopian future” thing a lot better.

Yeah, Minor episode Dredd But You’ve got to start somewhere. Thats the movie game. Hollywood is a British property with British sensibilities, so first you have to prove that it can be done in that style and make money at the box office. Forget the plot The characters make a story and I have not seen Dredd done properly on the big screen yet. minor changes like psi division won’t actually make a difference to the thrust of the story.

Budget is a double edged sword, if the budget was over $100 mil it’d have to make twice that to be worth a sequel. If it makes that much at a low budget then a sequel is more likely. Then we’ll definitely get Judge Death.

Remember the Stallone movie, They tried to do too much too soon and they £uF$ed it up.

The characterisations of Dredd and Anderson aren’t bad, but they’ve done away with the concept of the Psi-Judges as a separate division and made her a one-off telepath.

But I’m using my imagination here. It may be using a plot device that has been done, but when it comes to story telling everything under the sun has been done. It comes down to your originality in execution. It is relatively low budget but that’s the trade off between having it watered down and Hollywoodised for a second time.

The script is fast paced action filled, very hard hitting and violent. But most of all the Characters of Dredd and Anderson are exactly as they should be written. There isn’t so much in the way of Satire – but I heard that Wagner himself is going to be providing a lot of the background satirical detail. The Peach Tree thing does sound a bit silly but it is actually in reference to a historic event that influenced the script.

I’d just like to see this film do well so we can have a bigger budget sequel with Judge death.

Karl is the perfect age to play Dredd at the start of the movie franchise.

I’ve also read the script and it was excellent very true to the comic. In response to some other posters talking about an arch. Dredd doesn’t have an arch as such – that’s his whole point, But Anderson Does which is why she’ll also be in the movie.

I went to a midnight showing when it came out, the place full of Dredd fans. The movie ended. Total silence. On the way out a guy in front of me turned to one of his mates and said “Well. That was a bit of a mixed bag, wasn’t it?” Sums it up quite nicely.

Someone should do a hardcore Dredd cartoon series for Late Night Swim. Would be a good companion piece for Metalocalypse and Frisky Dingo.