Judge Dredd: Mega City One

Skerries

If like me you loved the last Dredd film and want to see more, then sign the 2000ad petition to the online studios to make it into a TV show

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2016-01/14/2000ad-petition-dredd-tv-netflix

CastorTroy

I pretended Almost Human was a prequel series for Dredd.

sonic85

I'd only sign it if karl urban is guaranteed to return. Could be great

Skerries

sonic85 wrote: »

I'd only sign it if karl urban is guaranteed to return. Could be great

SIGN IT ANY WAY!

or you'll get 5 in an isocube

The_Valeyard

Karl Urban was a great Dredd.


Am I the only one who also enjoyed the cheesy Stallone version back in the day?

squonk

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Karl Urban was a great Dredd.


Am I the only one who also enjoyed the cheesy Stallone version back in the day?

I think you are

Mitch Connor

Its just a shame that the big push for a Dredd sequel came almost immediately after torrents of it dropped online - indicating a good proportion of the people wanting a sequel never actually supported the original. Would think if the amount of people who would call for a continuation of Dredd actually went to see it in the cinema when it was out, there would have been a far better chance of it getting a sequel.

Duggy747

Mitch Connor wrote: »

Would think if the amount of people who would call for a continuation of Dredd actually went to see it in the cinema when it was out, there would have been a far better chance of it getting a sequel.

Probably, but it was marketed pretty awfully and it was locked to 3D which meant many figured was like a cash-grab for a shít film.

I wrote it off as looking terrible based on trailers and adverts but saw it from word of mouth and critic reviews and really enjoyed it. Hell, even the 3D was put to good use and was the only time I enjoyed the format since Avatar.

The sequel is a dead duck but I'd definitely be up for a TV version.

pixelburp

I think a Dredd TV series has a far better chance of success than any sequel to the 2012 film could: the nature of TV vs. Film means the former tends to allow greater room for character work and world-building (if either are allowed to happen in the first place of course) and that could be where a good TV adaptation would pull in the viewers and/or plaudits.

A movie can only ever be a whistle-stop tour through whatever mythology its adapting, so you'll get all the thrills but perhaps less of the depth you might get otherwise; to me it would seem like a TV version would give greater scope for all the brilliantly sharp-edged, oddball & angry satirical angles the comics often took. The sort of stuff that'll only ever be background detail in a (likely) action-oriented film.

Put it another way: I couldn't see 'America' being adequately adapted as a film, but it'd be perfect as an arc in a TV series.

Not that I think online petitions are of any value or anything - even if I signed it myself

ScumLord

Dredd was one of the only films I went out and bought because I liked it so much.

The only problem I had with the film was that the city wasn't very convincing. It didn't really convey the overcrowding of the comics.

Howard the Duck

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Karl Urban was a great Dredd.


Am I the only one who also enjoyed the cheesy Stallone version back in the day?

No i enjoyed it too, couldn't understand everyone saying it didn't have a plot , it clearly did just not a very good one.
Wasn't a massive fan of the last movie, too realistic for me not like the comic book with all the crazy characters.

Skerries

looks like it is happening

http://www.geek.com/news/karl-urban-says-new-dredd-series-could-happen-1653949/

Edward Hopper

Skerries wrote: »

looks like it is happening

http://www.geek.com/news/karl-urban-says-new-dredd-series-could-happen-1653949/

That would be fantastic if the series did take off with Karl Urban as Dredd and Olivia Thirlby as Anderson. Decent budget would be nice too.

I bought the DVD and bluray of the film for myself, then bought a couple more to give as birthday/Christmas presents so I did my bit!

SirLemonhead

Howard the Duck wrote: »

No i enjoyed it too, couldn't understand everyone saying it didn't have a plot , it clearly did just not a very good one.
Wasn't a massive fan of the last movie, too realistic for me not like the comic book with all the crazy characters.

Add me to that too - with the understanding that I have never read a 2000AD comic and so don't know much about the character, but yeah, the Stallone was... OK? Enjoyable in a ridiculous hammed-up way. Plus, having seen it when 11 or so years old probably helped!

As a non-fan, the helmet removal thing wasn't an issue for me

I think I preferred it to the new one myself. I should probably watch the new one again though as my memory of it isn't great.

Harry Palmr

The Cursed Earth has the be the story to make.

Wibbs

I've been waiting for a decent try at Joe Dredd since I bought Prog 3 of 2000AD when it was new. Dredd was my fave from the very start.

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Karl Urban was a great Dredd.

+1 Urban was brilliant in it. The budget might not have been there to represent Mega City One in all its comic book glory, but I thought the gritty reality aspect worked very well.

Am I the only one who also enjoyed the cheesy Stallone version back in the day?

It wasn't so bad. yeah it was cheesy and far lighter than the comics, but I enjoyed it for what it was.

Harry Palmr

Wibbs wrote: »

I've been waiting for a decent try at Joe Dredd since I bought Prog 3 of 2000AD when it was new. Dredd was my fave from the very start.

You beat me by 2 weeks! Still have them all - yellow and fragile in the attic (

or is that mother?

).

Skerries

http://ew.com/tv/2017/05/10/judge-dredd-tv-show/

CastorTroy

Well as we saw in Almost Human Carl Urban is willing to do tv. And he also wants to reprise the role of Dredd.
So maybe stars will align. Though wonder how far out it is

degrassinoel

just read the email from 2000ad about that, deadly!

pixelburp

It's exciting news, frankly I'd given up thinking a y follow up Dredd would happen, though the lack of a network dampens thing a little. Plus a cursory glance at this IM Global crowd doesnt seem to have the most amazing CV...

CastorTroy

Seems to be 2000AD pushing their IP into other areas. Also releasing a remastered version of Rogue Trooper on consoles.

If they could get the movie director involved and get Carl Urban as producer at least, then they may do okay.

ScumLord

This sounds really cool. The problem with every dredd film so far has been the producers trying to make it more hollywood friendly, they tried to focus entirely on dredd being the main focus of the film and megacity one got relegated to just a name. Even in the last film (which was great) mega city one just looks like LA with some CGI buildings thrown in, it was sparse and didn't look like the jungle of people that the comic city was.

It's been a long time since I've read any 2000AD and dredd, but I don't remember the dredd character being developed all that much, he was a constant and the stories came from what everybody else was doing and the point they ran into dredd through their actions, or by the actions of others.

Dyr

Dredd was just the same punchline over and again, a bunch of british writers laughing at an American stereotype. Or in Garth Ennis case a nordie making fun of the irish

Mega city one and its supporting cast is a far more interesting premise than Dredd ever could be, but I doubt I tV show will be able to capture that

For Reals

Bambi wrote: »

Dredd was just the same punchline over and again, a bunch of british writers laughing at an American stereotype. Or in Garth Ennis case a nordie making fun of the irish

Mega city one and its supporting cast is a far more interesting premise than Dredd ever could be, but I doubt I tV show will be able to capture that

There's decades of material. The Angel Gang, block wars etc.
Any story that depends heavily on the lead spouting one liners is poor. I don't see why they couldn't replicate some of the excellent story lines. I think there's a lot of comparisons to the world today being a lot closer to Mega City One these days.

Wishful thinking

Ralf and Florian

Hopefully The Dark Judges will be featuring.

Ralf and Florian

ScumLord wrote: »

This sounds really cool. The problem with every dredd film so far has been the producers trying to make it more hollywood friendly, they tried to focus entirely on dredd being the main focus of the film and megacity one got relegated to just a name. Even in the last film (which was great) mega city one just looks like LA with some CGI buildings thrown in, it was sparse and didn't look like the jungle of people that the comic city was.

It's been a long time since I've read any 2000AD and dredd, but I don't remember the dredd character being developed all that much, he was a constant and the stories came from what everybody else was doing and the point they ran into dredd through their actions, or by the actions of others.

Yeah, there used to be some great one off characters in the Dredd stories (I'm speaking mainly from the perspective of it's 80's heyday) and I loved the Mega-City one backstories about the day to day life of MC1 citizens and the weird crazes that used to feature, Block Mania, the cult of The Fatties, the storylines that satarized contemporary real life trends like plastic surgery and game shows in a similar way that The Robocop movie would go on to do.

Dyr

Ralf and Florian wrote: »

Yeah, there used to be some great one off characters in the Dredd stories (I'm speaking mainly from the perspective of it's 80's heyday) and I loved the Mega-City one backstories about the day to day life of MC1 citizens and the weird crazes that used to feature, Block Mania, the cult of The Fatties, the storylines that satarized contemporary real life trends like plastic surgery and game shows in a similar way that The Robocop movie would go on to do.

That to me was the main attraction of the dredd stories, the life of the city. Did they do some stories about undercover judges later on? I only read it as a kid really

CastorTroy

The fact it's subtitled "Mega-City One" hopefully means it's not going to be Dredd exclusive.

I can see the Dark Judges being introduced at the end of season 1 or 2 as a cliffhanger.

pixelburp

Bumping the thread; amid the more high-profile franchises at San Diego Comic-Con, Rebellion revealed that the pilot script for Mega-City One was complete, and had planned out 2 years worth of plot. Pre-production for the pilot is about to kick off too, while Rob Williams, a former writer for 2000AD is apparently the Creative Lead of the project.

Am very curious just how much cash is thrown at this: Mega-City itself would need a fair amount of green-screen to properly translate it, unless the whole show is set in warehouses ala those bottom-rung shows on SyFy.

WhiteNoSugar

More news: http://rebellionproductions.co.uk/projects/mc1

pixelburp

That article's from May 2017, it's the same announcement as was posted in this thread; just announces the collaboration between Rebellion and IM Global itself.

(on that, there's no news or update on whether any distributor or channel is going to pick this up, so remains to be seen how far this will develop)

Glebee

https://www.screengeek.net/2018/07/26/judge-dredd-mega-city-one-show-not-a-cartoon/

Skerries

scripts written but waiting for end of lockdown

https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2020-07-28/judge-dredd-tv-show-script-written/

banie01

Skerries wrote: »

scripts written but waiting for end of lockdown

https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2020-07-28/judge-dredd-tv-show-script-written/

The hope this evokes in me is just what I needed today.

Agent Coulson

Scripts might be ready however is the money to make it ready.


To make even a 8/10 episode season they are looking at I would guess probably close to £100m these days and they also don't seem to have a distributor or platform to show it on yet.

pixelburp

Don't want to be a Debby Downer, but I really can't see this happening. The most important piece from that interview is that it STILL hasn't had a network or distributor pick this up. 2 years after the last thread update.

I'd love to be wrong cos Mega City is begging for adaptation, and maybe Netflix or someone are floating around looking for their next Witcher hit ... ... yeah. I dunno. This has been in gestation for years without so much as a hint of network interest.

CastorTroy

The cost to bring the city to life alone will be high, unless we just wee the same alleys and buildings the whole time.

pixelburp

CastorTroy wrote: »

The cost to bring the city to life alone will be high, unless we just wee the same alleys and buildings the whole time.

The 2012 film was fairly low budget, confined to indoors sets but the location work was in South Africa IIRC. Ironically, SciFi has never been a stronger genre on TV so no reason why a modest budget couldn't go far with some canny location scouting while CGI does the rest.

That this hasn't got a sniff of a network doesn't bode well. Maybe Rebellion didn't want to shop around til the scripts were 100% ready, and to be fair CoVid has upended everything so open doors were briefly shut

banie01

pixelburp wrote: »

The 2012 film was fairly low budget, confined to indoors sets but the location work was in South Africa IIRC. Ironically, SciFi has never been a stronger genre on TV so no reason why a modest budget couldn't go far with some canny location scouting while CGI does the rest.

That this hasn't got a sniff of a network doesn't bode well. Maybe Rebellion didn't want to shop around til the scripts were 100% ready, and to be fair CoVid has upended everything so open doors were briefly shut

I think Rebellion are also kind of hoping they can drive a synergy of interest, set and prop/costume availability from the planned live action experience opening in 2021.
https://2000ad.com/news/coming-spring-2021-judge-dredd-uprising-the-live-experience/

CastorTroy

pixelburp wrote: »

The 2012 film was fairly low budget, confined to indoors sets but the location work was in South Africa IIRC. Ironically, SciFi has never been a stronger genre on TV so no reason why a modest budget couldn't go far with some canny location scouting while CGI does the rest.

That this hasn't got a sniff of a network doesn't bode well. Maybe Rebellion didn't want to shop around til the scripts were 100% ready, and to be fair CoVid has upended everything so open doors were briefly shut

I was thinking as well that Rebellion might be trying to shop multiple licences at the same time. Maybe Rogue Trooper as well.
There are many services looking for deals like that, the same way Netflix got the deals with Boom! and Dark Horse. Not to mention book deals like Netflix with Narnia and Amazon with LotR

Dyr

You couldnt make a TV show nowadays that would be true to Dredd, it would be dogpiled into oblivion. Only hope would be the Chief Judge Cal story line and give him orange skin, that might fly.

They might water it down and manage to put out yet another ****ty generic sci fi effort like every other ****ty generic sci fi effort thats swamping the market.

CastorTroy

Dredd will only be a recurring character in this at most, from what I understand. Could be an anthology series set in the city

cdgalwegian

CastorTroy wrote: »

Dredd will only be a recurring character in this at most, from what I understand. Could be an anthology series set in the city

Used to love Eagle Comics and 2000 AD as a kid, obs with J.D (and Strontium Dog);
just downloaded the "complete case files of Judge Dredd".
Page 1 - Mega City 1 in 2099. It won't come cheap.



Makes sense to have him as a recurring character rather than the focus; as far as I remember he was a one-dimensional psychopath. But so cool! Mega City one can be the Baltimore from The Wire; the actual star of the show.

o1s1n

Mega City One is really the main character in the Judge Dredd universe anyway so it would make sense.

I absolutely loved the Dredd film, however they really weren't able to truly capture the magic of Mega City 1 with the budget they had. The internal shots looked great but the outside shots fell a bit short.

The 1995 Dredd film, although missing the mark on many levels (and committing the grave sin of including Rob Schneider!) had some fantastic city shots at the start. Budget was astronomical though.

cdgalwegian

As soon as I saw a clip of Stallone without his Judge's helmet on in Judge Dredd I decided never to bother watching it, though the decision was aided by the fact that Stallone was the eponynous hero (later compounded by the terrible reviews). Loved Dredd- Urban was great in it.

When I watched the Mandalorian I always had Dredd in the back of my mind re taking the helmet off, so was disappointed when it happened there; it's pretty hard to engage with in terms of personality, so having the character a recurring one rather than a central one also increases the sense it makes in this regard.

CastorTroy

Making him recurring increases the chances of getting Urban back.
I think if they do a cliffhanger for season 1 it'll be the Dark Judges

pixelburp

The adaptation would be in a weird bind, not dissimilar to something like Gotham; in that if you don't include the city's most famous resident in a proactive role, the show might struggle to get out of Batman/Dredds shadow. Especially with pressure from executive oversight or casual fans just wanting the shopping list of fan service.

cdgalwegian

As an aside:

From Pat Mills, creator of 2000AD and developer of Judge Dredd, comes SPACEWARP, a British Science Fiction comic of great NEW hero comic strips for the Science Fiction world we live in today. Featuring Special Forces One at war with Giant Viruses! Jurassic Punks versus Dinosaurs! Xecutioners: authorized to terminate Aliens! Slayer – one Robot in a Galactic war against a million Space Knights. Hellbreaker escapes from Hell to punish the Living. Fu-tant – a terrifying school for Mutants!

https://www.spacewarpcomic.com/

(couldn't see a thread in Comics section).

larchielads

o1s1n wrote: »

Mega City One is really the main character in the Judge Dredd universe anyway so it would make sense.

I absolutely loved the Dredd film, however they really weren't able to truly capture the magic of Mega City 1 with the budget they had. The internal shots looked great but the outside shots fell a bit short.

The 1995 Dredd film, although missing the mark on many levels (and committing the grave sin of including ROB SCHNEIDER) had some fantastic city shots at the start. Budget was astronomical though.

Made it into demolition man too I believe, sly must have a soft spot for em