Judge Dredd Relaunch

Why redo a movie that was already perfect? Ok, so Stalone’s JUDGE DREDD fell somewhere short of perfect. In fact it was one of the most panned films of the 90’s. But that’s what the 1990’s were all about, butchering comic book movies. I mean the best comic movie of the 90’s was what? BATMAN RETURNS? When Danny Devito giving an inspirational speech to an army of missile touting penguins is your best movie of the decade, the genre is in trouble. Then you follow that up with movies about little known characters like Dredd, Barb Wire and Tank Girl, and a Fantastic Four movie so bad the producers wouldn’t release it. The 1990’s are the dark ages of comic movies, all topped off by 1997’s BATMAN AND ROBIN, which I consider to be the worst movie ever made.

So now they want to re-launch the JUDGE DREDD line, and I’m all for it. Let’s fix all of them, wipe out the painful memories of Hollywood’s screw ups and give the fanboys something to enjoy… just keep it away from FOX.

This is what Super Hero Hype reported earlier:

Roughly two months ago, it was announced that 28 Days Later writer Alex Garland was tackling the screenplay for another attempt at a Dredd movie for DNA Films, and over the weekend, comic artist Mark Simpson who draws under the pen name "Jock" mentioned the fact that he had a meeting to talk about the Judge Dredd movie on Monday. i.e. today. (Writer Andy Diggle may also be involved with this meeting, although he’s being slightly more coy about it if so.)

Our British readers will realize that Jock drew Judge Dredd in "2000 AD" for a number of years, working with writer Andy Diggle before the two of them kicked off the DC/Vertigo relaunch of The Losers, which some may be aware is being turned into a movie directed by Sylvain White next April.

So, you like or not?