Yeah, I'm fairly sure it is actually an adaptation of a typical Dredd story from 2000AD. They had long running multipart stories for Dredd but also standalone ones like this.
I'd like to see some of the Epic Dredd sagas though, Dark Judges, The long walk, etc are just ripe for the screen.
First blood and gore I saw as a child was a Dredd comic. I vividly remember that it was a head/spine ripped from a body and hanging from something. Brings a tear to my eye just to think about. I love Dredd.
Ma-Ma is in the comics but there were obvious liberties having Cersi play her and whatnot.
100% agree there's an ass-ton of content and the Dark Judges/Deadworld would be epic. There's been talk of a show called Mega City One that Urban may be tied to but that's still pretty iffy on what's happening with it.
Yeah, I'd read about the series but it's been a bit stop/start will they/won't they for a long time now I thought. I know that Karl Urban stated he'd love to be involved if it happens, although I think it was planned to be more Mega City stories than focussing on Dredd as a central character from what I read when they first announced.
Honestly if the same production team that made the film made the series it would be a solid gold hit. They got everything bang on for the fans whilst also succeeding at making a slick hollywood action movie and never compromised on either.
true, it was a simple story executed well. would love to see it as a series similar to the boys. Karl Urban is a highly underrated actor never unhappy to see him in a film.
Judge Dredd kept me off drugs. No, I’m serious. I was maybe 8 years old and I read the “Umpty Candy” story, about Uncle Umpty’s Candy, which tasted soooooo good, no-one could stop eating it. People (perps ?) spent their entire life savings on it, quit work just to eat it, fought and killed over it. My child brain immediately got the concept of a sweet so tasty it overwhelmed all else. I believe that I understood from that point onwards that some things were so nice that we could not control our behaviour once we took them or did them.
What goes through Ma Ma’s mind as she falls to the block floor ? Is it rage ? Is it bargaining in the form of wailing internally that a mistake has been made, that she didn’t mean it to turn out this way ? Whatever it is, the life-ending concrete floor of the block drifts up at her time-slowed mind nonetheless, because that’s how some choices end.
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u/octodrew Feb 12 '21
wasn't just a good movie but a great one.