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Here’s a trailer for Lionsgate’s Dredd. Directed by Peter Travis and written by Alex Garland and based on the Judge Dredd comic books, it stars Karl Urban as the title character (played by Sylvester Stallone in the 1995 version) plus Olivia Thrilby and Lena Headey. Slated to open September 21st:
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LOVE IT! But isn’t this the same film as THE RAID directed by Gareth Huw Evans?
I was at that screening too (in Burbank). I went in cautious, but it was actually a very good, lean, scrappy B movie. It does look small in comparison to Stallone’s flick, but this one’s tighter. The Raid comparisons will be unfortunate but this is it’s own thing. Also, not a fan of 3D but, surprisingly, this was the sharpest, brightest projection I’ve ever seen. Dunno of its just AMC Burbank, but it looked very clean and vibrant. If its a post conversion, I couldn’t tell. The director should also get points for his style, it elevates a pretty average script. Would love to see a sequel with a bigger budget. No idea how this will do $ wise. My guess is it will have a Jason Statham type opening, but good word of mouth could give it the legs it deserves.
Thanks for posting such an intelligent, reasoned comment. Deadline could do with more of them.
Haven’t seen it, but it seems to have an interesting concept for a superhero film: a ‘Die Hard’-style thriller, rather than a(nother) origin story.
Dredd has some much potential in the current times, but why does every future hi-tech action movie have to be a rehash of the Matrix and one-liners?
Trailer > Movie itself.
Aside from the retardo “Slo-Mo” “Ma-Ma” baby talk crap, this actually looks surprisingly decent. Ive been waiting for a beautifully gory R-rated 3D film for a while… Please be good.
I think this comments section might be in the running for the most plants of the year category. Doesn’t matter how “insanely awesome” the 3D looks. It’s just a more expensive and probably less interesting version of The Raid. Fail minus.
Shut ya mouth, Gardener. I’ve seen the movie (with a full audience that dug it) you haven’t.
Keep spinnin’ marketing genius. Nice try. I actually have seen the movie dumbass.
Really? Then why not talk about what you didn’t like about it?
And why did you say ‘probablyless interesting version’?- that ‘probably’ really makes it sound like you haven’t seen it and are just pretending to have seen it: If that’s the case, then you have some nerve accussing others here of dishonesty.
Was a huge fan of the comic books so I’m excited for this. Already from the trailer alone it visually is stunning. It looks fantastic and I mean haters gonna hate but hey, if they are sticking with concept (which it seems they are) and putting the technology behind it I’m sure it’s going to be awesome.
Urban is DREDD! Get ready for judgment day going to be one helluva ride!
Wow, Dredd looks dreadful.
It’s completely awesome in that it reminds me of Johny Neumonic. Oh wait, that movie sucked. Never mind.
Isn’t this the plot from Robocop 3?
I’m not a marketing exec, comic book reader or fan of Dredd. And I found this exciting. The sheer desperation of so many in here to despise everything as quickly as humanly possible is both fascinating and depressing.
An entire movie in 2 minutes 31 seconds
-shouldn’t we at least get a cigarette afterward?
Well, I like and respect Pete very much but this looks like a pastiche, like they tried to do Hollywood on the cheap.
Holy crap, the dialog, and the acting. Or lack of it.
You can smell the flop sweat coming off the marketing droids in the comments above.
After reading these comments. I see why this movie was made. There is a fooled audience awaiting.
This looks just terrible.
I checked out the recent postings a few hours later and some of you thought I was part of marketing…Well screw you! I am a huge Dredd fan and saw this film a few days ago at the Burbank 16 and loved it! But then again coming from some of you trying to figure out why Karl Urban never takes off his helmet. I guess I should have known better.
Again this is a down dirty movie with intense violence that made me want to wipe the blood off of my 3D glasses when I was done.If the executives know better they should keep everything the way I saw this flick. So again screw all of you trolls if you thought I was some marketing imposter, I was being true to what I saw.
I was not so sure about this before but after watching the trailer I am kind of excited to see this. One of the better ones I’ve seen recently.
I remain baffled as to how people who claim to know anything about the film industry think that a 3D movie (native 3D, not post, as someone was asking upthread) with extensive FX work could have been made since the Raid came out.
Of course Dredd isn’t ripping off the Raid — the Dredd screenplay was leaked online in mid-2010 and the main shoot wrapped late 2010, early 2011, so Dredd was first by a comfortable margin. Lionsgate have sat on the movie (knowing it will be a hard sell with the stink of the Stallone turkey still lingering) for a release date where it won’t get steam-rollered by one of the year’s big releases.
Gareth Evans has already acknowledged the massive coincidence in similarity between the films:
http://www.indielondon.co.uk/Film-Review/the-raid-gareth-evans-interview
Q. Do you know that the new Judge Dredd film has essentially the same plot as The Raid?
Gareth Evans: Yes, while we were in post-production on The Raid I was telling a friend of mine that we’d just finished shooting and told him what the story was about and how this unit of cops had to fight their way out of a building after their raid comes down on them, he replied: “That’s like the new Judge Dredd movie.” I said: “What?” So, he sent me this thing where I could read the synopsis for it and I thought: “Oh God, we’ve got to get released very, very soon!” [Laughs]
Buzz is strong on this reboot. Much gritter than the original. Urban rules, loved him in REDS. It’s on my list to sees. Does have a lot of similarities to RAID:REDEMPTION, which ia also a superior kick ass flick from Indonesia. But RAIID didnlt get good marketing outside Faer East and is already out on DVD. So this may be the better film. We shall see.
NOTE TO HOLLYWOOD: Not EVERY Comic-Book needs to be translated or re-translated into movies.
This looks horrible. Key reason: this is not a future anyone cares about. Bleak, hopeless futures where lone heroes fight to keep drugs off the street away from hopeless user-losers does not make an interesting story. I don’t give a rat’s ass about that. This will be all noise and no substance. At least that’s what the trailer is promoting.
Problem with Hollywood is that they never learn from their mistakes. They already tried Dredd once. The reason it flopped wasn’t just because it was a bad movie…it’s because the concept itself is better relegated to the unique market of comic-books. There, it thrives. But as a movie…it just won’t work (except maybe keep a handful of fans happy).
Hollywood needs to go back to its roots…specifically, taking risks…and produce NEW material, not rehashing old crap.
Guess we can lump you in with the ‘people who like to comment about Hollywood here but don’t really know anything about it’ crowd — Newflash: this new ‘DREDD’ is not a Hollywood production; it’s a British and independently funded production only being distributed by Lionsgate…who, other than ‘Hunger Games’ and Twilight’, doesn’t really have a long Hollywood history, either…
Observer,
I was referring to the movie making machine in general, whether based on Hollywood or elsewhere. Much like a reference to ‘Wall Street’ can be interpreted as the overall banking/investment industry.
Movies can be made anywhere…but this trailer is on here not because it has a limited release in a foreign country, but because the Hollywood machine is going to market this to the U.S market.
Since this is a British Production, filmed in Cape Town with Canadian money, at what point do we stop calling the movie industry “Hollywood”?
And furthermore, people who claim to know a lot about “Hollywood” seem to forget that stars like Stallone and Schwarzenegger effectively made their careers on independent studio productions competing against or outside of the traditional Hollywood big studio system.
“Judge Dredd” (1995) was a Cinergi production (but yes, distributed by “Hollywood Pictures” a Disney company!), directed by a British commercial filmmaker, Danny Cannon. Debate quality all you want, but you should probably check up on some facts and history about filmmaking and Hollywood…
That looks completely terrible!!!
Well I’m a Judge Dredd fan and I think it looks like its gonna kick ass.
Hmmm.
Positive points compared to Stallone: gritty, dirty, a big plot rather than trying to summarise all Dredd in one film.
Negative points: no wit, no ruthless sense of justice, and a plot that is EXACTLY the same as The Raid but inferior fight scenes.
looks to me like this movie will be a big hit movie!