Taika Waititi to direct new 'Judge Dredd' movie.

[Rich Watson]

Didn't see that coming.

Taika Waititi And Drew Pearce Team On ‘Judge Dredd’ Package

Taika Waititi is attached to direct new 'Judge Dredd' movie from a script by Drew Pearce.

deadline.com

Hmm, so which painfully unfunny supporting character will he play this time?

Edit: D'oh.

 

[The Scottish Nightmare]

Probably the worst director for Dredd.

 

[JoeZhang]

I am crying with laughter (over on reddit) looking at people suggesting what they think are terrible over the top comedy storylines they think he will do to "ruin" Dredd and ever single one so far *has actually happened in the comics*.

 

[Ovation]

Wait. What?! There are people who don’t know that Dredd is a comedy?

 

[Rich Watson]

There are people who think the Karl Urban movie is a true representation of the comics!

 

[King Bob!]

I always liked the Sylvester Stallone version.

 

[The Gatekeeper]

Filming of The Boys has finished, meaning Karl Urban is available. Urban and Waititi previously worked together on Thor Ragnarok...

Yeah, this is likely to be an all new reboot, and as such they'll be going with a new actor as Dredd. But I loved Urban in the role in the 2012 movie, so I'm going to unrealistically hope they get him back even if it's a reboot and not a sequel of that movie.

Wait. What?! There are people who don’t know that Dredd is a comedy?

I mean, with such gritty and realistic storylines like a monkey being elected mayor...

I always liked the Sylvester Stallone version.

Though I do prefer the Karl Urban movie, the Stallone movie is better than a lot of people give it credit for and as cheesy 90s action movies go, it is tier one in that category. Besides, the whole thing of Dredd taking his helmet off aside, it is very faithful to the comics, in many ways, more so than the Urban movie.

 

[Rich Watson]

This was the first issue of 2000AD I bought.

 

[JD]

I haven't read any of the comics, but from what I know of them, Waititi seems like a perfect fit if they're going to actually go for a more accurate representation of them this time.

 

[The Salt Umpire]

I mean, with such gritty and realistic storylines like a monkey being elected mayor...

Noam Chimpsky is a recurring character, so I can see him being mayor.

 

[The Salt Umpire]

This was the first issue of 2000AD I bought.

"Public gluttony. 5 years in the IsoDietCubes. Failure to obey MegaCit health guidelines. 10 years in the IsoDietCubes." -- Dredd

You'd figure MC1 would have dietary guidelines in the laws somewhere from when there were famines.

 

[Char Kais]

Taika Waititi And Drew Pearce Team On ‘Judge Dredd’ Package

Taika Waititi is attached to direct new 'Judge Dredd' movie from a script by Drew Pearce.

deadline.com

No thank you to both Taika Waititi and Drew Pearce (Hobbs & Shaw).
A definite hard No.

 

[Judge Death]

What I wrote in the reboot/remake thread in TV & Media...

It's weird, my instinctive reaction was "Oh no he'll make it silly." and then my slightly more considered reaction a minute or so later was "Oh cool he'll make it silly"

I love the movie Dredd, it's a five star film for me, but it does lack the surreal and comedic elements of Mega City One. I've joked many times that if you popped 90% of Dredd and 10% of Stallone's Judge Dredd in a blender you'd have the perfect Dredd film (The 95 film does have a more comic accurate vision of the city, even if it's pretty awful beyond this)

I tend to fluctuate on Waititi a little. I've truly loved some of his films (more people need to see Hunt for the Wilderpeople) but I've found him a little insufferable at times in recent years, but he had can balance the grim and ridiculous halves of Mega City One this could really be something.

I wonder if a lot depends on how well the Rogue Trooper film does, and I also wonder if there's any chance of Urban and Thirlby returning? (unlikely but hope springs eternal)

 

[Allyn Gibson]

I sat with the news about Waititi and Dredd last night, and I thought, "Y'know, he could do 'Gaze into the Fist of Dredd!'" (For those who don't know, Dredd puts his fist through the face of the Dark Judge, Judge Fear, in a classic strip from way back in the day by Brian Bolland.)

 

[Judge Death]

That would be soooo cool to see.

 

[Judge Death]

It strikes me that if you were going to go there, then Bella Ramsey would be an interesting choice for the Judge Child (though, shock, you would have to gender switch the character)

 

[The Salt Umpire]

I'd watch it. I almost want it animated in the Sin City way to keep to the comic roots.

 

[John Clark]

That would be soooo cool to see.

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Think I still have that one somewhere in my library.

 

[No Grave Dug]

There are people who think the Karl Urban movie is a true representation of the comics!

It definitely isn't but I do think it was a great take on the character and Karl Urban was great in it.