Seems the reboot of Judge Dredd will be named very simplistic Dredd and is set to start filming in South Africa later this year on a relative shoestring budget.
Dredd takes us to the wild streets of Mega City One, the lone oasis of quasi-civilization on Cursed Earth. Judge Dredd (Karl Urban) is the most feared of elite Street Judges, with the power to enforce the law, sentence offenders and execute them on the spot – if necessary. The endlessly inventive mind of writer Alex Garland and the frenetic vision of director Peter Travis bring Dredd to life as a futuristic neo-noir action film that returns the celebrated character to the dark, visceral incarnation from John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra’s revered comic strip.
Dredd is going to have some pretty big pills to swallow. The dark and inventive future depicted is a great concept and a lot of fun to explore, however its hokey visuals will need some tweaking if it is ever to outlive the stink of the Stallone classic.
The tough thing will be to change the uniform that has the rediculous looking judicial police officers without detracting from the comic.
They need to ditch that clown suit. Go neo-tech armour with a dark gritty style and stick with the story that made us forgive the outfit in the comic. That just will not translate to the screen. Ask Sly Stallone.
Karl Urban has that gruff presence that would be perfect for the cold Judge Dredd. I am very much looking forward to what they do with this.
