Alex Garland's Judge Dredd Story to be Dark & Gritty (the way it should have been)
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When news broke many moons ago that a another reboot for Judge Dredd was on the way alot people ran for cover that another shit movie was been rebooted!But roll back a few months and bring in regular Danny Boyle collaborator Alex Garland (The Beach, 28 Days Later) people got interested again simply down to the qaulity of the movies Garland has been involved in and this is dragging people to take notice. The movie is set to be directed by Paul Greengrass protege Pete Travis who is better known for Vantage Point, Omagh and endgame.
The Playlist have been able to get there hands on a version of the script and quickly looking over the information this will be a straight forward story with plenty of action which is what we want less talk more fun! The movie is going to have a budget of around $50 million but as for casting and a start to date for shooting I think we easily say thats a long way off. Remember below is only a early version the story will tweaked many times so if you think the idea is still a bit shoddy maybe wait for a while until something more offical is published then you can judge, main thing is we have an idea what way this version maybe heading.
MEGA CITY ONE is plagued by a new drug, SLO-MO, it slow’s everything down and producers visually stunning images, with time that moves at one percent normal.
Dredd has a rookie shadowing him for the night (CASSANDRA ANDERSON), she has some special abilities that the CHIEF JUDGE thinks could be very useful, however her JUDGE APTITUDE test scored just put her below a pass. It’s up to DREDD to see if she has what it takes to be a Judge and one night to do so.The pair investigate a multiple homicide in PEACH TREE BLOCK. A place ran and controlled by the MA-MA CLANG. After busting one of Ma-Ma’s henchmen, Ma-Ma takes control and locks the entire place down, she seals the place with concrete shutters — and no way out. Ma-Ma also tell’s everyone within the block to KILL THE JUDGES, or their families will suffer. Ma-Ma is the ultimate force in Peach Trees, more than the law, so everyone complies. Dredd and Anderson have to survive, holding onto their prisoner and try and escape the block. They begin on the ground floor and work their way up the 200 or so floors.
It’s a very action heavy script, with some amazing sequences that will make any Dredd fan happy…this is a gritty film, that plays the world we are in as a realistic future, a very dark, unpleasant crime ridden world as Dredd explains ‘Tweleve serious crimes reported every minute. Seventeen thousand per day. We respond to around six percent’. The famous ‘I am the law’ makes a few appearances.
Even if we’re not quite sold on the plot just yet, we are heartened that the film appears to be light on its feet, with the potential to be quite the spectacle:
It never felt too long or too short, It’s just right. The pace is fantastic and if shot well would make for one visually stunning piece upon release.There is a very cool sequence told from a junkies POV high on SLO-MO, the cool visuals of melting images, vibrant colours and [a] slow raid by Dredd and Anderson will be [something] very cool to see.
There is alot of similarties of other movies and Playlist has even called this an amped up version of 16 Blocks!!! What I do hope they have the fatties in it!!!
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That’s a nice report. I’m a big fan of the Dredd from childhood and let’s hope it’s good. I’ve always wanted to see Judge Death and his boys in there, for Dredds most iconic moment, where Judge Fear says, “stare into the face of fear” and Dredd replys “stare on the fist of dredd”. But it looks like Death will have to wait.