History Trivia / Dredd

* InvisibleAdvertising: A lot of fans (including Creator/KarlUrban) complained that the film was ''very'' under promoted. It doesn't help that ''Dredd'''s budget was comparatively low, (Urban also said that the film proper with made on less than thirty-million) not much was actually spent on advertising apparently, [[ScrewedByTheNetwork and that the distributor refused to give out non-3D copies of the film to cinemas in the UK (the franchise's home turf) even though they had them, which alienated a lot of people.]] All of this combined with the rather poor reputation of the Stallone film amongst Dredd fans. The film has done much better on home media and video, and is thought of already as a cult classic.

** Olivia Thirlby has been very flattered by the amount of fans who want to see her return as Anderson and says she and Karl would both love to do it.

* NoStuntDouble: Olivia Thirlby did many of her own action scenes.

* WinBackTheCrowd: Fans of the comic (and non-fans too) hated the Stallone version. While fans of the comic do (grudgingly) admit that the Stallone film did get the over-the-top look of the Mega City One, the Cursed earth, and the judges uniforms (to a point - rookies should have had white helmets (this one missed that too), the helmets were missing the iconic X on the visor, and Dredd’s codpiece is weird) correct, the characters, particularly Stallone as Dredd, were so awful that the the movie was a bitter disappointment. This gritty version is much more faithful to the comic and Karl Urban's portrayal as Dredd was highly praised.

* LateExportForYou: The film came out in 2012. Got dubbed and sold in Italy ''''seven'''' years later in 2019.

* DoingItForTheArt: Creator/KarlUrban is a fan of the comics and actually defied the director during the filming, refusing to film a scene where Dredd would have taken his helmet off and show his face (something that is widely considered CanonDefilement by fans).

* ExecutiveMeddling: Pete Travis was fired in post-production over delivering a film with not enough action and Alex Garland took his place in reshoots. Travis was later rehired and he and Garland delivered the final cut together.

* HilariousInHindsight:
** A piece of graffiti in the drug den where Kay is arrested looks strikingly similar to the logo of YouTube horror vlogger Shrouded Hand.
** Slo-Mo is almost identical to [[VideoGame/{{Fallout4}} Jet,]] even though its most recent rendition wasn’t revealed until two years later when ''Fallout 4'' was released.
* InvisibleAdvertising: A lot of fans (including Karl Urban) complained that the film was ''very'' under promoted. It doesn't help that ''Dredd'''s budget was comparatively low, (Urban also said that the film proper with made on less than thirty-million) not much was actually spent on advertising apparently, [[ScrewedByTheNetwork and that the distributor refused to give out non-3D copies of the film to cinemas in the UK (the franchise's home turf) even though they had them, which alienated a lot of people.]] All of this combined with the rather poor reputation of the Stallone film amongst Dredd fans. The film has done much better on home media and video, and is thought of already as a cult classic.

* WordOfGod: Alex Garland himself joined the 2000AD forums to get to know the fans [[http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php/topic,36741.0.html and even answered questions from them.]]

** Olivia Thirlby, like Urban with Dredd's helmet, went the extra mile to get Anderson's blonde bobcut from the comics. She said in an interview they had to redo her roots every ''nine days.''

* FanNickname:
** [[Film/{{Spaceballs}} Dark Helmet]] is Dredd (the large size of Dredd's helmet has caused this joke to be used quite often).
** "The Pantene Thug" for the Ma-Ma Clan thug who, despite his dirty appearance, shows off his luxurious long black hair during the scene he says Dredd "hasn't gone down" shortly before Incendiary mode is demonstrated.

* TheForeignSubtitle:
** Brazil and Italy: ''Dredd: The Judge of the Apocalypse''
** Romania: ''Dredd 3D: Last Judgement''

* CultClassic: The film failed to find box office success, but those who saw it loved it and encouraged others to pick up copies when it came out on home media, leading to it finding a second life and a rabid fanbase clamoring for more.

** Slo-Mo is almost identical to [[VideoGame/{{Fallout4}} Jet,]] even though its most recent rendition wasn’t revealed until two years later when Fallout 4 was released.

** There were three treatments that Alex Garland wrote before settling for the present story. The first treatment - the Dark Judges treatment features the encounter between Dredd and a rival judge by the name of Judge Death. However, Garland abandoned it after a year's work and 16 drafts on the story admitting that he couldn't crack much on that storyline. The second treatment is related to the Dredd and Cursed Earth storyline but was abandoned for the similar reason. The third treatment was an adaptation of the pro-democracy terrorists attacking the judges storyline but Garland felt that story and his ideas towards it were too grandiose in nature but stated that treatment would have been the third part of a trilogy, if there would be one. Garland later stated that the problem with both the Dark Judges and Democracy storylines is that both are a subversion of the dystopian society of Mega-City One and the Judges themselves. Of course, you cannot subvert something without setting it up to begin with, meaning he basically wrote the sequel first. The final script that he wrote was based one of the punchier short stories in the vein of cop movies e.g Film/TrainingDay. John Wagner described the script as correcting the mistake in the Stallone-starred version that was being too sweeping.

** Brazil: ''Dredd: The Judge of the Apocalypse''