Judge Dredd Movie is Green Lit!

[Colin Zeal]

The two photos on this page have made cheered me up no end. They are both fantastic.

[JayzusB.Christ]

Fuckin' hell. John Wagner likes the scripts and the cast - things are looking good!

[Mike Gloady]

Of course, it COULD turn out that Mr Wagner has no taste.  But that's unlikely. 

I second the "WHOO" and indeed the "HOOO!"

[uncle fester]

Does anyone else think it's a bit weird that the artists and writers we used to think of as mysterious, unreachable and generally otherworldly now have pages on facebook? And that they reply to your questions?

Just a thought.

[ThryllSeekyr]

Quoting Rodger Godpleton

I'm not having any of that Dredd's eye shit in my fucking Dredd movie that I'm directing. They had that in the Doom movie and that movie was gay. Gay like Slaine.

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How about from the perspective of some perps, starting from their crime being comminted and Dredd or some other Judge turning up and challeging them, shooting them, arresting them and having them brought in or cubed and after that the perspective switches to another perp as they are about to commit another crime while another Judge or Dredd catchs up with them. As the movie progress the pers go from normal to wierd. Like they start out as ordinary citzens, being found foul of the law, to Juves doing gang related stuff like tagging, Marlon --Choopper-- Shakespeare illegally racing through upper levels of the city on his powerboard, Larry Hoover going Futsie and shooting at passing traffic, real perps, Dunks and Pogos, Edwin Parsey coffessing to everything, Organ leggers, bat gliding burglars, Jimps, The Hunters Club, Block War, Big Lard Ringner and Leage of Fatties eating more than their fair share of food rations, Otto Sump and his Uglyfication Clinics being closed down, and then we get to see the real freaks, Mayor Dave being stabbed, Crooke Judges, Judge Cal and Keegs, mutants trying to sneak in at the western sectors of the city, Uggie Apelino & the Ape gang, The Angel Family, alien criminals, Gila-Munja, dinosaurs and other weird fauna escaping from the zoo, Troggies and other inhabitants of the undercity, crazy robots, Death cultists, Zombies, Vampires, the four death judges......

It would be cool to have the wel known personalites like Herman Ferguson, make cameos this way.

Understandably, I'm only too well aware that the odd approach is more of unessasary gamble and would be discarded for the safer option that always works, but it doesn't hurt to suggest.

[IAMTHESYSTEM]

Good idea trouble is I think they tried something similar at the beginning of the lamentable RoboCop 2.

RoboCop V's Judge Dredd now that would be a crowd puller!

[judge macbrayne]

ITS NO GONNAE HAPPEN

[Peter Wolf]

Fuckin' hell. John Wagner likes the scripts and the cast - things are looking good!

COR !!

Any chance of Rebellion actually posting an official update/progress report about all this at some point ?


I ask this because i dont like to be kept in the dark for too long with tantalising little titbits like that without an official announcement but i do understand how film studios and those involved like to go in for all this "I am not at liberty to say anything" and all that rubbish as if its a matter of national security.

"Whoooo i am an insider and i know everything but i cant tell !!"

 OOOOh please tell !! PLease !!

 Its like gossip in a way.

 Will it be Matthew Fox ?

 Will it be Gerard Butler ?

 Will it be Christian Bale ?

 I know its the in thing these days to have a rumor mill or a gossip column and that film studios like to have their secrecy but just give me an official update and give me the facts.

Why couldnt Rebellion just state from the outset that they were going to invite John Wagner to review the script as this must have been their intention from the outset because John Wagner didnt just chance upon a script or have it passed on by an insider did he ?

We are well overdue an official update is what i am saying.

[judge macbrayne]

its no gonnae happen fur crud sake

[Peter Wolf]

its no gonnae happen fur crud sake

I like your optimism.

Well if it has apparently got as far as the cast being chosen and the script written and being reviewed by John Wagner then something is happening but unfortunately i dont have the ability to predict the future unlike yourself.

[JOE SOAP]

I've been saying that this will be a tough film to get made for certain reasons -funding being the biggest problem- this article in today's Guardian does not paint a rosey picture for the film industry & big films, especially ones that will cost lots and need to have an edge to be good. The only films that are likely to get funding are big, dumb spectacles like Transformers that rake money in no matter how shit they are and appeal to the lowest common denominator:

Hollywood film output likely to fall by a third

• Industry suffers from credit crunch and digital revolution
• Current peak of 600 movies produced per year is likely to fall to below 400

The famous Hollywood sign in Los Angeles. Film studios' finances are in freefall and the number of movies in production has dropped sharply. Photograph: Craig Aurness/Corbis

The number of films being produced by Hollywood is set to fall by more than a third as the major studios struggle against a twin threat, industry analysts say.

Their problems stem from a dearth of funding and from the digital revolution in the way people consume moving images.

Mark Gill, head of the Film Department, an independent film finance firm, predicted that last year's peak of 606 films to emerge from Hollywood would fall to fewer than 400 next year "and it may go lower than that in future".

The finances are in freefall, Gill said. In the wake of the financial meltdown, banks that had acted as the main funders of big- and middle-budget films have withdrawn their largesse, sucking $12bn (£7.4bn) out of the $18bn available to the top studios.

Other lines of income have also shrivelled, most importantly DVD sales, which have plummeted by up to 25% in some studios, partly as a result of piracy.

Digital downloads and video-on-demand are the new buzz technologies, but they still bring in tiny amounts compared with the dwindling DVD market.

As a third blow, the hegemony of English-language Hollywood films is being challenged around the world, with audiences favouring homegrown talent.

That's been a trend long pronounced in France, for instance, but it has now spread to places such as Greece and Japan, which a few years ago earned just 5% of its box office revenue from local language films but now has a figure of 65%.

The latest household name to draw attention to the crisis is Francis Ford Coppola, director of the Godfather trilogy and Apocalypse Now. Speaking recently at the Beirut Film Festival, where he is showing his latest film Tetro, he warned that "the cinema as we know it is falling apart".

He told the Bloomberg news service that "it's a period of incredible change", predicting that two or three of the six big Hollywood studios were under such strain they would soon go bust.

That gloomy prognosis chimes with other industry analysts who claim that MGM in particular is on the edge, while other big studios are not far behind. Paramount Pictures registered a loss of almost $150m in the first half of this year.

With a sense of panic setting in across Hollywood, the industry has, in the past three months, seen the biggest shake-up of studio chiefs in 25 years.

In August, MGM ousted its chief executive Harry Sloan. Disney recently sacked its studio chief, Dick Cook, and Universal Pictures earlier this month dismissed its joint chairmen Marc Shmuger and David Linde following a string of box office disappointments, including the family film Land of the Lost and Sacha Baron Cohen's Bruno which took in $60m – far short of his previous film Borat, which made $129m.

Paradoxically, while the world's movie capital is in turmoil, the appetite for its products remains buoyant. Ticket revenue has continued to climb by about 2% this year, a modest figure, but a striking achievement in the midst of a recession.

Film buffs are likely to be most distressed not by the overall cut in films on release, but by the quality and nature of what will be on offer. As cash for new movies dries up, a greater proportion of the shrinking resources is going into a tiny range of sci-fi, superhero and mystic titles.

Coppola said that even if studios survive the upheaval, they will "just make certain kinds of films like Harry Potter – basically trying to make Star Wars over and over again, because it's a business".

For cinema to survive, Coppola suggested, it would have to become much more interactive, with directors attending live performances of their work on a nightly basis "like the conductor of an opera. Every night it can be a little different".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/18/hollywood-films-numbers-fall

[vzzbux]

Whilst watching Chronicles this evening I thought this little chappy could pass as Dredd. I noted that he had the facial profile in a number of shots.







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[IAMTHESYSTEM]

Yeah, it will be a tough shot to get the film made but there's still the Judge Minty film to look forward too and ABC Warriors animation looks like great fun.

[Steve Green]

"Film buffs are likely to be most distressed not by the overall cut in films on release, but by the quality and nature of what will be on offer. As cash for new movies dries up, a greater proportion of the shrinking resources is going into a tiny range of sci-fi, superhero and mystic titles.

Coppola said that even if studios survive the upheaval, they will "just make certain kinds of films like Harry Potter – basically trying to make Star Wars over and over again, because it's a business".

I would say that doesn't sound particularly bad for a Dredd movie, maybe not *the* Dredd movie you'd want, but it could tick a few boxes in that couple of paragraphs.

Shame we've got the Stallone movie as a fucking great albatross...

[JOE SOAP]

I would say that doesn't sound particularly bad for a Dredd movie, maybe not *the* Dredd movie you'd want, but it could tick a few boxes in that couple of paragraphs.

Shame we've got the Stallone movie as a fucking great albatross...

I think it's quite bad for Dredd unless you want something mediocre and then what's the point? We've already been disappointed before. It would be like "the Punisher" a crap first film then redone as a straight to DVD job.