Slashfilm visited the UK equivalent of Comic-Con, the MCM Expo the other day. The major panel saw Andy Diggle, Jock and Idris Elba taking to the stage to promote The Losers. And, Alan Grant at a separate on discussing media/comic crossovers. Slashfilm spoke to all concerned about both the Judge Dredd movie and Guy Ritchie's take on Lobo..
This from Slashfilm...
"Coming off of a question about production and concept design for The Losers and its relationship to Jock’s original art in the comic, I asked Jock about the Judge Dredd picture for which he’s been creating concept art and for which Alex Garland has written a screenplay. I wanted to know what we all want to know: is there a director attached? Quite simply, he said no, “there’s not a director attached at the moment”
More concrete information came from Alan Grant. His soapbox topic appeared to be how aggrieved he was feeling that the Lobo film Joel Silver and Guy Ritchie are working up is getting designed to be a PG-13, which he rightly indicated as going absolutely against the original concept of the thing. He stressed that neither he, Keith Giffen nor Simon Bisley had been called upon to collaborate or even consult on the movie.
It became clear that Grant had no real idea how likely a new Judge Dredd film was becoming. When asked, he told us that neither he nor John Wagner, Dredd’s creator, had heard anything from Rebellion or DNA and that no kind of input from the comic’s team had been sought. This, he wanted us to know, was the reason he felt the first film went so disastrously wrong. He’s clearly expecting the same from the second."
Mmm. Not very good news for either project I'm sure you will all agree..still, lets stay optimistic, at least there is no way the new Dredd movie can be as bad as the last one anyway!(sorry Shaman:)
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