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comicwriter Since: Sep, 2011
#1: May 10th 2017 at 9:54:20 AM

It'll focus on a team of Judges, however. They also note the online fan demand for a Dredd sequel is what helped push this forward.

I wonder if a cameo from Karl Urban would be out of the question.

edited 10th May '17 9:56:33 AM by comicwriter

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#2: May 10th 2017 at 10:16:08 AM

[up]Dredd should be there but an ensemble means you can do other judges as well.

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#4: May 10th 2017 at 2:42:52 PM

Multiple judges AND they're bringing in some of the comic's wackiness? If this means we get to see Dirty Frank, sign me the drokk up!

OK, I'll sign up anyway, but please let Dirty Frank appear.

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#5: May 10th 2017 at 5:24:35 PM

I wonder if they can show the comics political themes like how the Judges can be corrupt and bad like the criminals they fight or some of their actions can do more harm than good like a kid who admired Dredd but asked him what did his mother died after she was injured during a peaceful democracy protest that turned violent due to the Judges try to violently stomp it.

comicwriter Since: Sep, 2011
#6: May 10th 2017 at 5:52:22 PM

In the announcement they specifically said the world is ripe for political commentary, so given the current climate I imagine they'll absolutely deal with that.

There are definitely comic writers who've dealt with the potential Fridge Horror of the Judge system in the past.

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#7: May 10th 2017 at 5:54:01 PM

It's kind of funny because Judge Dredd was originally meant to be a political satire and Dredd was supposed to come off as somewhat fascist, but it became something of a Indecisive Parody rather quickly.

In any way, I'm hype for this.

"All you Fascists bound to lose."
comicwriter Since: Sep, 2011
#8: May 10th 2017 at 5:58:20 PM

It's the same sort of thing that happened with the Punisher. The writer created him because he thought the idea of a soldier who uses his skills to be a judge, jury and executioner was horrifying, but fans took to the character and missed the criticism/satirical element.

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#9: May 10th 2017 at 6:11:34 PM

[up]The problem is that Dredd knows the system is shite, but the alternatives are...profoundly worse.

Gaon Smoking Snake from Grim Up North Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
#10: May 10th 2017 at 6:28:41 PM

Which is of itself a way to weasel out of the premise. Dredd zig-zags between being a tough but fair cop to being a vindictive fascist asshole because writers can't decide if he's a satire of consumerism, violence and pseudo-fascism or not. So some writers add the caveat that Dredd knows the system is utterly broken but knows all the alternatives are worse, as a way to both make him more sympathetic and to justify why the system never changes.

It's a story stuck between a rock and a hard place because it's both trying to criticize the fascism inherent of the premise but also trying to justify the very same fascism to maintain status quo. So it's both pro-fascism and anti-fascism, with the balance pending more to one or the other depending on who's writing it. It has a personality crisis.

But this doesn't mean that this indecisive tango doesn't yield some beautiful results (America, the best Judge Dredd story, plays exactly with this question), but a tv show may be forced to pick one or the other since a serialized format tends to dictate beginning, middle and end (unless you're Supernatural, which never fucking ends).

edited 10th May '17 6:31:18 PM by Gaon

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#11: May 10th 2017 at 8:05:56 PM

Why the Hell would I want to watch a Judge Dredd show without Judge Dredd? Is it just going to be Anderson, Hershey, and a rotating cast of dead meat?

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#12: May 10th 2017 at 8:30:58 PM

No one said Dredd isn't in it, though. Just that it'll focus on a team of Judges.

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Mullon Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson
#13: May 10th 2017 at 8:51:02 PM

I don't want a team of Judges, I want Dredd. The comic doesn't need a team of Judges. It should be like Dragnet.

edited 10th May '17 8:51:32 PM by Mullon

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Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#14: May 10th 2017 at 10:44:35 PM

I'm fine with just Dredd and Anderson. Anderson has her own spin-off series.

That said there are other Judges - I can see this working as a kind of Dexter-like show where there's a little more of an ensemble, different points of view on who Dredd is. But it should still be centered around Dredd's activities. But you need to have other charactes because Dredd is a very static character, stoic to a T. You'd have to include other personalities to clash with Dredd's, because a show with an emotionless, Lawful Neutral Dredd would probably get stale real fast - unless they really get into the weirdness of the Dredd universe.

edited 11th May '17 11:09:38 AM by Soble

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comicwriter Since: Sep, 2011
#15: May 11th 2017 at 2:58:37 AM

Just so long as one of them isn't Rob Schneider.

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#16: May 11th 2017 at 6:53:39 AM

[up][up]That's why you need an ensemble. Dredd has character arcs and development but he purposefully makes himself The Stoic. You need a different POV and an ensemble would allow to focus on both Dredd and other evolving characters.

But watch as the Dredd episodes get a full ratings point higher.

edited 11th May '17 6:54:15 AM by Beatman1

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#17: May 11th 2017 at 9:30:48 AM

Excellent. I look forward to this launching.

edited 11th May '17 9:31:03 AM by TuefelHundenIV

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#18: May 11th 2017 at 2:47:34 PM

Mullon: Dredd if frequently not the focus of the comics; some of the best stories follow a random citizen who happens to cross paths with Dredd.

The way to write Dredd well is to remember that he can be summed up in two words: Lawful Neutral. In his moral code, disobeying the law is wrong, regardless of the merits of the law itself. With that in mind, the rest falls into place.

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#19: Aug 9th 2018 at 8:37:06 PM

Dredd Tv Pilot completed and early plans for two seasons worth of plot are underway. Courtesy of Comics Beat. They are also scouting shooting locations for the show. Even better they have some of the Dredd comics writers helping out.

Official PR follows:

The script for the pilot episode of the Judge Dredd: Mega-City One TV series has been completed, Rebellion Productions can reveal.

In an exciting update a year after development began on the TV show based on the seminal long-running comic book character from legendary British comic 2000 AD, Rebellion Productions has announced that a script for the opening episode has been completed.

The plot for the first and second seasons have also been laid out, ready to develop into finished scripts.

Producers are now currently scouting out potential filming locations in the UK ahead of the beginning of pre-production.

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#20: Aug 10th 2018 at 11:56:03 AM

[up]Is Karl Urban involved in the pilot, was Dredd recast, or is Dredd The Unseen?

Apparently they haven’t cast yet.

Edited by Beatman1 on Aug 10th 2018 at 2:56:11 PM

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