Karl Urban On Coming Back For A DREDD Sequel

first and yeah i cant wait this movie looks good

Judge Death for the sequel please.

@Pathogen: You might find it stupid, but that doesn't mean it is. Stupid concepts tend not to last over 35 years at a consistent high level of popularity unless quite a lot of people think it isn't stupid at all.

I know. Other points of view. Difficult to grasp isn't it?

I´m actually really, really excited for Dredd

@BattlinMurdock
>may apply to the character over in the UK, but here in the States, the general public has next to no idea who he is.
>but here in the States, the general public has next to no idea who he is.
>but here in the States
>States

U.S.A = the only place where stuff matters

@battlinmurdoch - Dredd is not only popular in Britain. It is distributed in most commonwealth countries. and not just the States is important when it comes to box office.

The main concern is the trailer doesn't depict any sci-fi interior locations. IT LOOKS CRAZY CHEAP. The slo-mo lab scene looks okay but that's one scene out of an entire film.

There was zero desire/imagination/talent to make the interiors look remotely Mega-City 1 sci-fi looking. I accept the budget is small but if the Judge Minty fan film can create a sci-fi look why can't this film? It's like they found some tatty locations in South Africa and said "this will do, who cares if it looks crappy, we'll just say Peach Trees is a slum!" Such a cynical approach.

Can anyone see any interior locations that actually look sci-fi? Dirty orange walls, crumbling concrete, isn't my idea of how MC-1 blocks look! I'm amazed this film cost 45 million dollars. Looks more like a tv pilot with a few digital composite shots of the city blocks.

You have Judge Minty. What's your problem? That fan-film looks great btw - for a fan film. All it does prove though is that things do look a bit ridiculous when you translate too literally from the page. I know you think it looks 'awesome', but I think it looks way too stylised and exaggerated in live-action to be remotely practical.

I don't want YOUR ideas about how MC1 should look either btw. Your ideas suck balls. They're also completely moot. They didn't make your script, they didn't want your script, your script sucked. Get over it.

You can't stop it, you can't make everyone else hate it. You can hope it's shit, you can pray it fails in the hope that no Dredd movie will ever be made again, but make no mistake, if it does fail you will NEVER see a more developed MC1, you will NEVER see futuristic cars and vans, you will NEVER see the eagle, you will NEVER see a Dredd 'a bit more like the comics'. Ever.

If you get behind this one - even against your better judgement - then you might get what you want somewhere down the line, but if you don't there won't be any more for that to happen.

If your negativity puts even a handful of people off, and they in turn put other people off and this movie fails to make enough for sequels, you will have bitten off your own nose to spite your face. There will be no reboot in 10 years with dreddhead's script (face it kid, you blew any chance you'll ever have on working on the character in any official capacity in any medium with your attitude), no money thrown at the Judge Minty guys to 'do it properly'. Nothing. Just the comics and your basement. :)

Urban has made no secret of the fact that he is a longtime devout fan of the character of Judge Dredd. Certainly, as a fan of Dredd, he would love to do sequels if the opportunity arose, but he's also a realist. A smaller film with a hard-R rating can be a harder sell to mainstream audiences. It may not make the $50 million needed to greenlight a sequel. That doesn't sound like so much, when we've been talking much larger numbers all summer, between Avengers, Amazing Spidey, and TDKR, but for a smaller film, which won't play on as many screens, that can be quite a hurdle. I'm certainly planning to see it. And I hope it proves to be both a great film and a surprise hit.

For the record, I'm NOT the World's Greatest Dredd Fan. I think a lot of the time his comic has been rubbish, often edging way beyond satire into pure parody (often of itself), but when done well can be really quite unique, smart, insightful, biting and/or interesting.

Sometimes the execution of a particular concept can be done badly (like the Stallone film, some of the comics), but that doesn't mean the concept itself is.

The significance and place in comics history of the character alone mocks that very idea. But if YOU think it's stupid, that's ok too. :)

I do say that for nearly every comic character to be fair. :)

Weekly/monthly deadlines mean that it's virtually impossible for every issue in a long running, constantly published comic to be gold, which is why I'm always a little wary of those who state that it should be 'just like the comics'...

What? Even the shit filler that constitutes a good proportion of the published material over the years?

But I am a fan of the character all the same. Just one that has, I hope, a healthy sense of perspective. :)

He must be getting desperate. He's complaining about the WALLS now ffs. :D

"So what did you think of the new Dredd movie?"

"It was terrible - they got the walls all wrong!!"

Funny thing is, he seems to be absolutely oblivious about how insane he sounds.