'Judge Dredd' Remake News: Alex Garland Writing the Screenplay

Is that Alex Garland the author of The Beach? If so I'm in. That's pretty cool.

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Watch recycled movies.

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I hope they make this and have Ray Stevenson and the director from Punisher WarZone make a balls to the walls ultraviolent laugh out loud movie.

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Alex Garland is an amazing writer. Just look at The Beach (novel), 28 Days Later (Screenplay) & Sunshine (screenplay). But I can't picture a 'good' version of Judge Dredd even with a brilliant writer attached. I guess we'll have to wait and see...

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Alex Garland? Count me in! and how about Jason Statham to play the man himself? Dont get another yank, even if the character is

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He's a great writer, but I've never been satisfied with his 3rd acts. They changed the ending in the beach from the books, Sunshine lost it towards the end, and same for 28 days. That aside his first two acts always make it well worth it for me, just hope he can deliver a big finish for something like JD.

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At last! JUSTICE shall be done! I hope. LOVE Dredd, see my handle^^^. Hopefully it will looks and feel more like the comics. Slys costume changes bugged the hell outa me. Also Dredd NEVER removes the helmet... ever!

I have been praying for a reboot of Dredd since i saw the first film. What a wasted effort. It did have a few great redeeming features though, Mean Angel was perfect, so was ABC Robot Hammerstein. And the sets were great, though lacked that 80s british influence the comics had.

Dredd must be violent, bloody yet cheeky as hell. Humour and odd characters are not in short supply.

Hopefully since the perfect Dredd casting (Clint Eastwood) is too old and was wishful thinking, maybe Ron Perlman could play Dredd, that would be awesome.

Just keep his costume exactly like the comics. Lordy this could be brilliant!

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At last!! What great news!! I have loved the Dredd comics since I was a little kid! I have always thought that this movie should be rated R and someone like David Fincher should direct it. Make it bleak, hard, "without hope" and also ridiculously unfair when Dredd exacts his judgment.

And we should never EVER see his face (kind of like V in V for Vendetta). Keep the freakin' helmet on.. and find someone with the right chin and gruff voice to pull it off. I agree that Eastwood would have been perfect.. but yes.. too old now.

Don’t make it too cheeky.. it will quickly ruin the movie… I was appalled by the 1995 Stallone version. It could have worked with Stallone actually if they would have dropped the comic relief and kept the helmet on him. But.. they … didn’t and it was a disaster almost on the level of Batman & Robin.

Sometimes I really dislike Hollywood. I remember Stallone saying “I told the powers that be that the movie should be funny” … I wanted to have him run over by a truck for saying that (not really but you know what I mean).

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The movie with Stallone was horrible, and nothing like what Dredd was really like. Where were the mutants for example. Hope they bring some kicksarse intense mtuant killing like the comic portayed.

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please, please, whoever takes charge of this film, do not balls it up like the complete toss that was the 1995 version. Im not the worlds biggest judge dredd fan, but i do claim to have bought the original 2000 a.d. comic cack in 1979 or summit when i was 10! as a result of early fandom, i craved a dark, oh so dark and brooding judge dredd film, with bladerunner type cinematics, to PROPERLY bring to life a character and world in which the futuristic underbelly of society is visualised in all its hopelessness. if achieved, what a film it would make!

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So Judge Dredd rises again!I can't add any more 'wish list' requirements for this movie. I too have read Dredd since issue 2 of 2000ad, I too was appalled by the Stallone effort. The blame for that failure lies at the feet of Danny Cannon, a British director who not only read Dredd as a boy, but also designed a movie poster for a Dredd film while at college featuring himself as director! He was in a position to say what we expected from the film based not only on what he personally had read, but also what British readers knew to be the world of Dredd. Keep the helmet on, no kissy love scenes for Dredd, get the timeline right(6 Chief Judges from a period spanning nearly 80 years all sitting on the council of five), keep uniforms and titles original(judge hunters anyone?), maybe an appearance from Death & his cohorts? Maybe that last one isn't needed but the others are a necessity if a new rendering of this most respected Brit. Comic book anti hero is to succeed. Good luck Alex Garland.

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