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[silentstorm]

Not really a fan of this as I also disliked thor 4 but people that think that Dredd is always dark and gritty don't know the comics.

Some of the stories and events that happen in Dredd's world are very silly and sometimes very dumb. So if they lean into that campiness then he fits very well.

Personally would love to see ab adaption of the Pitt or necropolis.

I was going to say, Dredd can be pretty stupid, it was meant to be satire from the start, mocking the idea of Judges and a Fascist government and those who would force it...and then got sillier.

Sure, there are many serious arcs and characters, Judge Death is there, but this is also the setting where you randomly had male pregnancy being invented because a future mob boss forced a guy to marry his daughter but she didn't want to get pregnant so the guy got desperate enough to force scientists to find a way to make him pregnant instead.

A fact that is commonly taught in school, that the mafia led to male pregnancy.

 

[DarkBatman]

Oh no...is he going to make Dredd piss in his pants?

Taika Waititi would never do such a derogatory thing to the character.
His Judge Dredd will spontaneously have to take off his helmet and shit in it due to terrible diarrhea.

 

[The ninja farmer]

They bring back Karl and they are half way there (at least as far as a movie goes)

He is a fan and gets dredd.

Like was mentioned. Some stories have a natural craziness to them (fatties that compete in eating contests. Then the story continued years later, during a food shortage where the same completions ran. But this time they ate furniture, bikes and bathroom fittings !!! ). The graffiti story that became the ongoing sky surfer storylines. There are loads to pick from

This is a tough sell though. As great as the last dredd is. And as an original reader, who fell by the wayside many years ago, I really felt that they captured the essences of the character of dredd. The general public pretty much totally ignored the movie on release. Sad. As not only was it a great story, on a limited budget for what dredd is, but it was truly one of the best 3d movies

Maybe a cursed earth story ? Or a dredd quest to a 'less expensive place' to film or create ?

 

[Lunarorbit]

It bombed

They also considered this a bomb at the time and Furiosa took 5 years longer to make due to legal work around how WB tried to write it off

Did you mean Edge Of Tomorrow? ...also bombed.

Just cause movies bomb doesn't mean they don't hit cult status and get a sequel greenlit. The fury road movie was not a bomb; if it was they wouldn't have fought over the rights for so long.

 

[Nintendo's Witch]

Tailka Wokekiki. Now Judge Dredd is a cisgender empowered human being

 

[negator2vc]

Not that fucking idiot...

However, Karl Urban acknowledges the source material and would not do that character injustice. He is like Henry Cavil to an extent so I hope he gets onboard.

And unfortunately the Witcher series have shown that it doesn't matter if the protagonist care about the source material

 

[ForAcademicPurposes]

And unfortunately the Witcher series have shown that it doesn't matter if the protagonist care about the source material

The writers didn't give a damn and Henry called them out but to no avail.

 

[Ammogeddon]

Dredd 2012 set a really good foundation for a series. It was a shame it didn't perform as well as it deserved to. I used to read the comics, still have an original copy of Judgement on Gotham somewhere actually. I guess TW could get closer in tone to the comics but the 2012 vibe is still where it's at for a movie at a modest budget imo.