"I would have loved to do the Judge Dredd movie that is underway." he told Man Made Movies in a recent interview. "I was in fact sent the script to look at. Its a great script, and I hope I will not rue the decision of passing on it."
When asked why exactly he decided against helming the upcoming movie which will star Star Trek's Karl Urban in the title role he said, "Thing was, I had such a strong idea of what I wanted to do with a Dredd movie, I could not bring myself to take it on and not do it my way!"
"It's not like I could do it as a sequel either; my Dredd would have been really weird, and dark and funny, but not your traditional introduction to a hero character. I don't even know if I could have made my version of the film pitch-able. It was maybe too off the wall," he finished by saying.