JUDGE DREDD Creator Gives Seal Of Approval To The New Film

well thats nice, so can you know see a trailer of some sort soon please

ok sounds good but we need a f**king trailer

I know the helmet is iconic and in the comic it's cool and all but live action it's hard to take seriously.

Try the right cross fakie and Dredd will blow your brains out!

excellent

The Judges suits differ depending on rank, but yeah, they're pretty much the same.

Can't wait for this movie. Dunno if it'll make a lot, what with the lack of adverting, but sounds like it's gonna be awesome!

CURIOSITY PEAKED, IF THE CREATOR GIVES IT A RECOMENDATION I'M IN...BUT DAMMIT WHERES THE TRAILER? MAYBE THEYRE PLAYING IT SMART, NOT GIVING IT AWAY TOO SOON, SOME MOVIES GIVE ALOT AWAY BEFORE IT COMES OUT, THIS COULD BE HUGE.

T>R>A>I>L>E>R>>>>>>>>>

It's been claimed - so who knows how accurate it is - the Dredd trailer is attached to Prometheus. Prometheus opens next Friday (in Europe) and a week later in the US.

We could be a week away from an actual trailer. I was starting to think this film didn't actually exist. :P

This film is already going to disappoint. John Wagner mentioned this on his Facebook page - a fact NOT MENTIONED BY THE CBM newsreporter:

"The quibble: use of modern day vehicles in a futuristic setting. Given the budget constraints it is hard to see what they could do to avoid it. It's no big deal, really. It's over quickly and once you're past that it's full steam ahead into Dreddworld. If this film does well we can expect the budget on the next to increase, therefore more money for such SFX. And just consider, on a budget effectively less than a fifth of the Stallone piece they've managed to make a movie far more representative of the character and strip we all know and love."

Yep, no futuristic vehicles in Dredd. Just cheap looking 20th century ones - and rather grimy looking at that! This film has already failed to be faithful to the source material. If the Judge Minty film can feature futuristic vehicles - the lawmaster looks identical to the 2000AD JD strip, why can't a 45 million dollars film?

Look, a lot of the stuff about this film WOULDN'T be happening if DNA/IM Global/Reliance/Lionsgate had RELEASED A TEASER TRAILER in late March or mid April.

The producers have asked for a measure of criticism or self-doubt because they've starved this film of decent promotion. For the record - there are no released photos showing the scale of the city, the scale of Peach Trees block. Just imagine if they had released, let's say, one or two photos of MC-1 and they looked impressive, that would be a great way to market the film.

But we never got that.

They've asked for criticism. John Wagner does not say this is Mega-City 1. The executive producer Stuart Ford said it's Dirty Harry meets District 9. Wagner has said the cars are regular looking. Now it's not that hard to make an ASSUMPTION and assume the city looks fairly regular too. But if they actually release a trailer we can know for sure.

Judge Dredd is high-concept sci-fi so there is a big risk downscaling the vision to suit the moderate budget. Rebellion didn't have to give the film rights to DNA Films - they could have held on in the hope they could find people with bigger money pockets. A 45 million dollars Judge Dredd film may not work. This is why it's imperative some trailer is forthcoming. Let fans and film-goers make a fair assessment of the trailer, the look and scale of the city, the bike, the uniforms, the acting.

If I like what I see I will say so. If I don't like what I see I will say so. John Wagner - comic legend though he is - his words are not enough to convince me. It's time for a trailer and *we* can make up our own minds. :)

If anyone wants to go into the film business, in particular film marketing, don't follow Dredd's example. Had DNA/IM Global released one or two photos of an impressive looking Mega-City 1 they could have preempted a lot of people's moaning.

They messed up the delivery of this film big-time. This film is small budget, it's not on The Avengers scale. A few decent screenshots - and not one showing a dirty tatty wall and leaked on a Karl Urban fansite (!):




would have done so much for this film. Photos like the one above DO NOT SELL this film as high concept sci-fi. They goofed on the marketing. If any film needed some decent sci-fi looking screenshots it was this film. THERE HAS BEEN NONE.

Anyway, we can't change what happened. Perhaps the people responsible for making this film will have learned a few things about how their film was coming across on the internet. The positive thing is the trailer could be a few short weeks or days away, a poster should be out very soon. If the claim about Prometheus is correct, the trailer could be here in less than a week. :)