Director Pete Travis Off DREDD

Director Pete Travis Off DREDD

Even though the movie is now in post production, the director of the Judge Dredd reboot has been asked to step away from any further involvement. Click for the details..

By MarkCassidy - Oct 07, 2011 08:10 AM EST
Filed Under: Judge Dredd
Source: LA Times Blogs



Well this may explain the lack of any footage or real promotion for Dredd which we were expecting to see quite a while ago. Word is that the director of the movie, who has already shot it, has been asked to leave the editing and post production to others.



From The LA Times..

Although he completed shooting the picture earlier this year, Travis has not been involved in the current editing phase of the movie, after creative disagreements with producers and executives in charge of the film reached a boiling point, said three people with knowledge of the production who asked not to be identified because they were not authorized to speak about the situation publicly. Instead, the editing room is now being run by a writer-producer on the film, the screenwriter Alex Garland, the people said.


Apparently Garland may now seek a co-director credit on the movie too since he has done the lions share of the work since Travis left the project. Details on exactly why Travis was asked to step away are sketchy but according to the LA Times it was "when Travis and producers and executives in charge of the production did not see eye-to-eye on footage Travis was delivering". The blog also mentions that re-shoots are a possibility. This type of thing is rare, but not unheard of. Lets just hope that we still get a good movie out of all of it.




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bleedthefreak
bleedthefreak - 10/7/2011, 8:59 AM
Wow! This movie is still alive? I really thought they gave up on it a while ago.
marvel72
marvel72 - 10/7/2011, 9:04 AM
are we gonna get trailer for this any time soon.
Rothwilder
Rothwilder - 10/7/2011, 9:10 AM
Not a good sign....Aliens 3 pops into my head and the debacle that was.
m1312020
m1312020 - 10/7/2011, 9:23 AM
Damn this sounds bad for Dredd.I was hoping for this
to redeem the the movie version of this character.
StrangerX
StrangerX - 10/7/2011, 9:42 AM
Still looking forward to this
Tainted87
Tainted87 - 10/7/2011, 9:58 AM
This is a horrible motion, for both the final film, the production, and of course, the director. It might be completely different from what was intended. Nobody wins.
kevshardlemonade
kevshardlemonade - 10/7/2011, 10:00 AM
Good! Directors with "vision" dont know the first thing about movie making. Now, studio execs, they know!
mctrinket
mctrinket - 10/7/2011, 10:01 AM
Oh that bodes well. Good luck with this one.
Shadowfalcon
Shadowfalcon - 10/7/2011, 10:02 AM
hmmm
hoodedjester
hoodedjester - 10/7/2011, 10:04 AM
not exactly giving me a lot of confidence in this movie
Shaman
Shaman - 10/7/2011, 10:05 AM
I was a firm supporter of the film until they showed how bad the set pieces were and especially how stupid Urban looked in the role. True we didn't see "much" and a lot of it could be added with plenty of CGI in post production. Thing is, i was under the impression that the budget wouldn't allow much CGI to be used. So it really looked grim at the time. Now, with all this added drama, it looks dredded. I hope it all works out for us fans in the end. Consequently, i'm still very fond of Stallone's stab at it (minus schnieder, duh) so i won't be the first to shedd a tear should it go straight to DVD. As long as they make it look better than Warzone, that's all i'm asking.
BackwardGalaxy
BackwardGalaxy - 10/7/2011, 10:05 AM
Sounds like a mess.
UltimaRex
UltimaRex - 10/7/2011, 10:07 AM
Oh well, One more viewing of TDKR for me...
Mk616
Mk616 - 10/7/2011, 10:08 AM
Crash and burn.... Crash and burn
Locdogg81
Locdogg81 - 10/7/2011, 10:22 AM
Let me guess...the director wants a faithful, r-rated adaption with a great story but a lot of violence and the studio wants a pg-13 mass appeal version they can sell a shit load of toys with. Why does that sound so familiar?
ThaMessenger07
ThaMessenger07 - 10/7/2011, 10:32 AM
Sounds like this could be as bad as the Super Mario Bros. Movie.....w.e
MatchesMalone
MatchesMalone - 10/7/2011, 10:32 AM
@Shaman- "it looks dredded." Heh-heh. :)
Mysterion
Mysterion - 10/7/2011, 10:35 AM
Didnt the same thing happened with Warzone & Wolfman? Something tells me this is will be a direct to DVD.
Shaman
Shaman - 10/7/2011, 10:40 AM
MatchesMalone- *wink wink* ;P
Dedpool
Dedpool - 10/7/2011, 10:40 AM
Wow sounds like he got Donnered!!!
Pauul
Pauul - 10/7/2011, 10:40 AM
Hang on, they're saying that Alex Garland (who wrote the screenplays for 28 Days Later and Sunshine) is the one editing the film.

That hardly says to me that they are trying to tone things down at all.

He wrote the screenplay and served as producer, so he's hardly been uninvolved in the project.

We don't know why the director was replaced but for all we know this will result in a movie which is more faithful to the comic.

We'll just have to wait and see.
Boyle360
Boyle360 - 10/7/2011, 10:41 AM
Aw man it's gonna suck hard... :(
Starlight
Starlight - 10/7/2011, 10:46 AM
Hey, I was excited about this movie, and even though I do not know the director or any of his previosu work (meaning don't know if this change may be good or bad), one question still pops up.....

WTF??????!!!!!!!!
RyanLantern77
RyanLantern77 - 10/7/2011, 10:46 AM
Karl Urban is still my dirty dawg
write33
write33 - 10/7/2011, 11:01 AM
ugh indeed. bad sign. ah well. i still enjoy Urban's work quite a bit.
Joe6Pack74
Joe6Pack74 - 10/7/2011, 11:08 AM
Well that is just great. I guess it will be getting the "Green Lantern" award next year for most anticipated flop.
Ceejay
Ceejay - 10/7/2011, 11:32 AM
Same shit happened with the last Judge Dredd movie so not surprised!
warlock
warlock - 10/7/2011, 11:42 AM
This Movies,going to a suck, I reali was hoping to have faith in, Cuz URBAN WAS IN IT.
Vital
Vital - 10/7/2011, 11:53 AM
Hmm, too bad we don't have details to get to the bottom of this. Could be good, could be bad, we just don't know til we see the movie.
Vital
Vital - 10/7/2011, 11:54 AM
And which studio is it?
Shaman
Shaman - 10/7/2011, 11:54 AM
BRING ON THE TRAILER!!! :))
sexfoodcomics
sexfoodcomics - 10/7/2011, 12:13 PM
well. This movie will now suck. A producer making creative decisions is never a good thing.
pepe
pepe - 10/7/2011, 12:17 PM
crap studio
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