Perhaps this shouldn't be so much of a surprise, given that Judge Dredd is a project nestling under the wing of Danny Boyle's DNA films. But we're still ludicrously excited by the news, picked up from Twitter by MTV's Splashpage, that Alex Garland is working on a draft of the script.
Garland previously wrote The Beach, 28 Days Later, Sunshine and 28 Months Later for Boyle, and his involvement was confirmed via tweet by British comics artist Mark "Jock" Simpson, who has worked extensively on Dredd strips for 2000AD and has been coming up with concept art for the projected new film. "Working through script visuals for Judge Dredd movie. Alex Garland writes a great script," is the full missive. He is also rumored to be the the script-writer for Halo. Danny Boyle is also rumored to be making a Solomon Grundy movie says imdb.com
JFYI Judge Dredd is about a man who is a law enforcement officer in a violent city of the future where uniformed Judges combine the powers of police, judge, jury and executioner. Dredd and his fellow Judges are empowered to arrest, sentence and even execute criminals on the spot. And for those who don't know, Judge Dredd was adapted into a movie in the year 1995 starring the one-man-killing-machine-who-does-totally-impossible-things-in-movies SYLVESTER STALLONE!!! sadly the movie bombed and got alot of negative reviews, but no matter what they say I still like the movie.
There you go another comic book movie in the making (and sorry if you disagree with me this movie really needs a reboot).
Will this next comic book movie live up to its name or will it just pitifully continue sucking up? only time will tell.
ROCK ON!!!