DREDD Pre Release Discussion

This started filming last week. I think the plan is to shoot from November to February and release the film in the first quarter of 2012. A lot of sites ran smaller, darker versions of the first picture from the film so here's the official version:

http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/5062/5tvb.jpg

I had a chance to read the script and I liked it. As some sites have reported, most of the movie takes place in PEACH TREE block, a 200 story high-rise that has been locked down by a gang that's after Judge Dredd and his Rookie Judge Anderson. The movie throws you right into the action and there's no time wasted on boring origin stories. Fans of the comic should be happy to hear that Dredd acts just like the comic book Dredd. Anderson's a different story. She's basically a Rookie who's trying to pass her evaluation. I don't think Anderson's rookie days were ever explored in the comic.

I like the writer/producers and Urban seems to get the character, so my main concern is with the director. I never checked out VANTAGE POINT because I heard mostly bad things. Since most of the film takes place in a high-rise, things could potentially get stale if there isn't a talented guy behind the camera.

duke fleed, the Judge Anderson in the script isn't....over confident and cocky at all.

Some minor bits of set dressing from South Africa:

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2010/11/...-mega-city-one

First footage will be shown at something called the KAPOW CON in London:
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?p...ticle&id=29703

Also, THE WIRE's Wood Harris has been cast in the movie:
http://www.hollywoodofficial.com/201...cast-of-dredd/

Some shots of the Helmet sculpt and a shot of the finished product:

http://comicbookmovie.com/fansites/b.../news/?a=26347

Another look at the lawgiver:

Dredd will be going toe to toe with....Lena Headey (300, Sarah Connor Chronicles)?

She'll be playing the main villain "Ma-Ma"

 

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/archives/2011/01/12/confirmed_lena_headey_to_play_villain_in_dredd/

duke fleed....Ma-Ma isn't from the comics. She's a drug dealing/gang leading ex-hooker.

Also, you can rest easy knowing that Anderson has blondish hair.

http://www.judgedreddmovienews.com/2011/01/thirlby-blonde-photo.html

Edited by wadew1 - 1/13/11 at 6:47am

Yeah I know it was a typo.

Sorry if I offended you, duke fleed!

Well Wagner has been a "consultant" on the movie since the beginning. 

I never heard about any of the other DREDD GODFATHERS being involved, though. It would be cool if they ran things by guys like Alan Grant and Carlos Ezquerra as well.

From an interview with the cinematographer:

 

Quote:

 

Q: What can you tell us about Dredd?

ADM: Kevin’s brother, producer Andrew MacDonald, approached me a while ago. It’s written by Alex Garland, a very astute, creative writer, who I’ve known since 28 Days Later. It was shot in South Africa on 3D – around 13 weeks principal, and seven weeks 2nd unit photography. It’s a dangerous film, in the sense that the story places itself precariously on the floorboards of an action sci-fi genre film whilst underneath there’s a no less entertaining allegorical comment about this kind of cinema and the violence that tends to come with this kind of product. Visually we have gone at it hammer and tongues. We shot entirely digitally, in scope, using RED MX cameras and SI2Ks, Phantom Flex highspeed, and multiple rigs shooting at the same time on first and second unit. I built some new cameras rigs that can take you very close to the action. It’s won’t look so much like the action films we’re accustomed to, and the audience won’t have things thrust in their faces every five minutes. I hope it will be more painterly. If we get it right, it will be a cross between Blade Runner and Clockwork Orange.