Dredd (2012)

[COMMANDO FORCES]

That's why he should never take the helmet off!

[Steve Green]

That's how the clones in the 1995 film turned out before the scene was cut.

[JOE SOAP]

More of that "in development" news from Rebellion Chief.


We have confirmation of that here at Pocket-lint; development definitely hasn't started. But we can reveal that talks are ongoing about a Dredd sequel and/or a full Dredd TV series.

Dredd 2 movie or TV series possible

We caught up with Jason Kingsley at the recent E3 videogames expo in Los Angeles. He is co-founder and CEO of Rebellion which, as well as make games like the forthcoming Sniper Elite 4 and Battlezone, owns and publishes 2000ad. He also had approval over many of the props and details during the filming of Dredd 3D, and he talked candidly with us about the status of the Dredd movie and TV prospects.

"We really want to get more TV stuff made and movie stuff made. There's stuff happening in the background that's really exciting," he told us. "We're a long way from anything announcing, but we're working hard on that."


It is the TV show idea that is the more likely route to bring Dredd back to our screens, something that Kingsley thinks would work wonderfully.

"Dredd's world deserves a TV show. Several probably. Several box sets, actually. Six at least," he partly joked, although the idea certainly appeals.

"You could tell so many stories. There are so many brilliant epics. You could imagine one series of Dredd doing another Cursed Earth run."

Karl Urban is Dredd

Kingsley also confirmed that, should Dredd come back to our screens, big or small, Urban is still first choice to be the lead.

"Karl's a great guy, we know him well," he said.

"He's a big 2000ad fan - a genuine 2000ad fan. People say they're a 2000ad fan but you ask them about details and they start to go all twitchy. Karl though is genuine. I think he brought that to the character, his childhood interpretation of it."

The likelihood of hearing anything about the Dredd show or Dredd 2 in the coming weeks is slim. But at least we now know it is a real possibility.

http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/138047-dredd-tv-show-for-netflix-amazon-or-hbo-exciting-stuff-happening-in-the-background

[Goaty]

Nice

[James Stacey]

This news makes me unhappy. Bring me better news

More of that "in development" news from Rebellion Chief.
...

http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/138047-dredd-tv-show-for-netflix-amazon-or-hbo-exciting-stuff-happening-in-the-background

Thank you. I'm happy again now.

[Rately]

Bit optimistic after reading that.

Hopefully, fingers crossed, we do get to see Karl Urban don the helmet again, be it on big screen or small. He was fantastic in the movie and hopefully we get to see him face off with Rico, Dark Judges, PJ etc. in not too distant future.

[dweezil2]

I've gone from dejection to elation in a day!

It's like being in a particularly stormy relationship!!!!!! 

[Zarjazzer]

Here's hoping.

[IAMTHESYSTEM]

'Lost in development hell' is a well worn Hollywood line but at least there appears to be some sort of interest in the Dredd property and that can only be welcome news. Some sort of discussions have taken place perhaps just to confirm who actually owns the Dredd property/licenses etc and what their future intentions with it are. I wouldn't get your hopes up to high as so much depends on factors we know little about. After all it could be a cartoon series Dredd which although entertaining is probably a big 'Nyet' [ 'No!' in Russian you Imperialist Dogs] for twoothy boarders.

[Rusty]

Adi Shankar's been put back in his box.

http://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3396452/dredd-owner-harsh-words-film-producer/

[James Stacey]

Adi Shankar's been put back in his box.

http://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3396452/dredd-owner-harsh-words-film-producer/

Hope his tears don't make his eyeliner run.

[JOE SOAP]

When we ran into Urban at the the Star Trek Beyond premiere, we asked him if he was still interested in pursuing a Dredd series on Netflix, Amazon, or Hulu.

"Yeah, I've gone on record saying that I would. Absolutely," Urban told ComicBook.com at the Star Trek Beyond premiere. "I mean, what's clear to me is that there is an audience demand to see more and if we can find a way to have a legitimate and worthy successor to Dredd. I'd love to be a part of it. You know, it would have to be something where we were focused on Dredd and coming to sort of understand the deeper inner workings of the character, otherwise there wouldn't be much point doing it because it's a huge challenge to play a character whose eyes you can't see. We'll see. I'm sure it will get made at some point. Whether it's with me or not, I don't know."

http://comicbook.com/2016/07/16/karl-urban-still-intrested-in-judge-dredd-series-on-streaming-si/

[dweezil2]

Still keeping the dream alive, which is great!

I really hope it's Urban in any follow up, he's pretty much made the role his own.

[Goaty]

Still great title opening on the film.

Comments when watch the film on C4?

[JOE SOAP]

"There's certainly enough interested parties working away to one degree or another. I wouldn't be surprised if at some point there's more Dredd." - Karl Urban

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZlv0G3gAY4