The news has been steadily good about this film. Tweak that helmet size and I'm sold 
The Law Returns. This Time With His Helmet On! Judge Dredd!
- Thread starter Admiral_Young
- Start date
If anyone's interested, that blog I linked to earlier now has some recent photos of the female lead sporting her new crop of blonde hair. I can really see why they cast her as Anderson, she has that big black eyes thing going on that also got Pat Tallman cast as a telepath.
^ Agreed. Although I think they need to make her a platinum blond...that hair is a little off for me for some reason.
Isn't she Cersei in Game of Thrones? I dont want anything to take her away from that. Unless they do Dredd during her break from GOT.
Well of course it'll have some things in common with the '97 film, (it is the same source material after all) but by all accounts this production is going for "gritty realism" (with perhaps a healthy bit of satire) in terms of tone and production design, while the Stallone film was a much more glossy, Blade Runner on steroids meets Star Wars type of affair.
If you really want to indulge in allegorical comparisons then I'd say this new film will look like Robocop meets District 9, with a plot that's like Die Hard meets Training Day...or we can just wait and see so we can judge the film on it's own merits.
Not that I'm a hair expert or anything but I gather there's only so much you can do with hair that's naturally very dark before you risk doing some damage. Plus I always saw Anderson as a bit of a dirty blonde. If you really want to see a cute white haired girl as a Psi Judge then I suggest you wait till they make a film with Exorcist Judge Lamia.
If you really want to indulge in allegorical comparisons then I'd say this new film will look like Robocop meets District 9, with a plot that's like Die Hard meets Training Day...or we can just wait and see so we can judge the film on it's own merits.
Not that I'm a hair expert or anything but I gather there's only so much you can do with hair that's naturally very dark before you risk doing some damage. Plus I always saw Anderson as a bit of a dirty blonde. If you really want to see a cute white haired girl as a Psi Judge then I suggest you wait till they make a film with Exorcist Judge Lamia.
Last edited:
They're in production right now and yes the first season of Game of Thrones is already long completed as mentioned. I don't much care if it resembles the 97 film, what is going to distinguish it from that is the story and as Reverend and I have previously reported the story is very much different indeed. Alex Garland I think did a great job with the script as well as concentrating on the nitty gritty what Dredd fans expect to see from the character and world. I'm starting to think we could get a teaser trailer by the summer time maybe. That's just a guess the way things are progressing. I also agree about Dredd's helmet...although since this is being filmed in 3D, a part of me wouldn't be surprised if the helmet it's self will be rendered in 3D too.
Well of course it'll have some things in common with the '97 film, (it is the same source material after all) but by all accounts this production is going for "gritty realism" (with perhaps a healthy bit of satire) in terms of tone and production design, while the Stallone film was a much more glossy, Blade Runner on steroids meets Star Wars type of affair.
If you really want to indulge in allegorical comparisons then I'd say this new film will look like Robocop meets District 9, with a plot that's like Die Hard meets Training Day...or we can just wait and see so we can judge the film on it's own merits.
Not that I'm a hair expert or anything but I gather there's only so much you can do with hair that's naturally very dark before you risk doing some damage. Plus I always saw Anderson as a bit of a dirty blonde. If you really want to see a cute white haired girl as a Psi Judge then I suggest you wait till they make a film with Exorcist Judge Lamia.
See Carey Mulligan for further details about hair damage!
I kinda like the look she has though, if anything she looks more like Anderson than the comics portray her as (if that at all makes sense) I mean in the comics Anderson was always a babe, whereas this girl has a quirliker look that fits in more with the character. She probably has a harder job than Urban, so long as he can be gruff and deadpan he's sorted, but Anderson's gotta be empathetic, quirky, witty, irreverent...well basically carry all the emotions that Dredd can't! If they pull it off it'll be a great pairing.
Headey as the villain is sort of good news, I'm just slightly dissapointed cos she might have made a fab Hershey!
The Lawgivers seem like a lot else in the film, modern day Glocks with bits stuck on them. This isn't neccesarily a bad thing, invented prop guns can be very obvious to spot unless done right, but I still can't shake the feeling that this film's not going to feel nearly futuristic enough.
Obviously impossible to judge (ha ha) until we at least see a trailer.
^Actually that did occur to me too. Still, if Hersey is in this at all, it'd only be a cameo--IIRC there's an unnamed female Chief Judge on friendly terms with Dredd, so it's probably her--while on the other hand Ma-Ma plays a much bigger role. On balance more Headey is preferable than less.
Ouch.
^ More than that; I've been having a nose around on the 2000AD forums and it looks like the guy posting the images was a model maker and got himself sacked over leaking too much. Somebody didn't read their confidentiality agreement very closely!
I can understand the production company not being happy about it. I mean naturally they and the studio need to be able control how their film is marketed and stuff like this can potentially cost them if it affects people's opinion of the film.
I can understand the production company not being happy about it. I mean naturally they and the studio need to be able control how their film is marketed and stuff like this can potentially cost them if it affects people's opinion of the film.
That's unfortunate and one of the downsides of having the internet so easily accessible. On the one hand if gives us fans something cool to look at but on the other it pisses off the studio who don't want to give stuff away. It's understandable.
Creator John Wagner talks (positively) about the movie
http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/113990-judge-dredd-creator-offers-set-report
http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/113990-judge-dredd-creator-offers-set-report
John Wagner brings word from the Cape Townset of Dredd
Judge Dredd creator John Wagner has returned from a visit to the Cape Town set of the upcoming film adaptation, Dredd, and shared, via his Facebook page, a number of interesting details about the production.
"The film occupies all four giant buildings at the new Cape Town Studios," he reports, "Sets looked great - grim! ... What I saw... was very Mega-City. South Africa's got something of Mega-City about it in any case. On the morning I was supposed to do an interview with a reporter from Time Magazine I got a text from the studio: 'Time reporter has been mugged - interview is cancelled.'..."
Wagner also discusses the scope of the picture, one that he admits he had problems with in the beginning.
"[Screenwriter] Alex Garland and I have had our disagreements," he says, "but he has usually had a convincing argument for doing things his way. On the main issue, concentrating the plot on a slice of life rather than trying to convey the whole sweep of Dredd and Mega-City life, I now see that he's right. It was one of the flaws of the first movie, they tried to do too much... Plenty of attention's been given to the script already and of course everything at the moment is a little fluid, so where rewriting has to be done it gets done."
As for the cast, Wagner has nothing but tremendous praise.
"Very pleased with what I saw of Karl Urban and Olivia Thirlby," he writes, "Both excellent in their roles and work well as a team.... I just had a brief conversation with Karl, he's much too hard at work to spare a lot of time. There was one shot where the camera focused in on his face, a reaction to Anderson, and I swear Carlos could have drawn that scowl... Karl, when he's acting (and even when he's not!), IS Judge Dredd....Karl's got many voices and he certainly gets the gruffness and authority in Dredd's. Pete's pretty clued up on Dredd, as are many of the crew, being old-time 2000AD readers. I was surprised by how many had an in depth knowledge of and love for the character. That was very gratifying."
Other, more specific details, go into the set and costume choices.
"[T]he uniform doesn't look like a muscle suit," he adds, "It is very believable.... The uniform was still fairly paramilitary ... but it works for me... Only got to see a partial shell of a lawmaster, so can't really comment, but did handle a lawgiver. Looked good... I saw them setting up a lot of stuff for SFX but didn't get to see the final result. While in the FX dept a huge explosion went off - practically jumped out of my skin. Max the tech trying to figure out how to explode a lawgiver without killing the actor using it!"
Ultimately, Wagner's thoughts should serve to exited fans of Dredd and the "2000 A.D." comics.
"[The] entire crew [is] really dedicated and determined to produce a damned good movie," he says, "Sadly I had to leave before I could see them shooting any ultra-vi. Extremely impressed by the 3-D - apart from the demo at Universal Studios in LA, my memories were of the feeble efforts I saw as a youth. This is a real quantum leap from that, really adds depth. This is going to be good."
Interesting interview. That's a perfect description of the script too...a slice of life rather than broad sweeps. This really is an intimate film rather than bombastic. It has all the elements that Judge Dredd fans expect but condenses them and focuses on the plot and characters in the film.
http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/114132-judge-dredd-riding-his-lawmaster-bike
oh dear. oh dear. oh dear.
i am sorry, but i am rapidly losing any faith in this movie.
oh dear. oh dear. oh dear.
i am sorry, but i am rapidly losing any faith in this movie.
Hmm, well we need to see it from the front I think but it doesn't look good in this pic, looks like the Batbike from the 60s...
Similar threads
