We’re not going for comedy but there will be moments of light and dark, just like in the comics.”
“We want to capture the atmosphere of Dredd, we want all the crazy fashions and the kneepads.
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While Judge Dredd will get top billing, the series is due to explore a broader canvas, Kingsley adds, bringing the city and its sprawling cast of characters to life.
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“If everything goes according to plan, we’re going to make one of the most expensive TV shows the UK has ever seen.” Rebellion has teamed up with IM Global Television to look for big-budget commitments from networks in North America and Europe, with Kingsley aiming to be “well above” the £1m an hour budget a major TV show demands. It’s very exciting but also a bit nerve-racking.” But we have so many people wanting to play with our toys now we thought: ‘Let’s do this ourselves.’ As Rebellion Productions we will put a studio together, and pull together the cast and crew. In the past they’ve licensed characters to other people, he continued, letting them “have fun with our toys. “The films didn’t tackle the satire very well,” Kingsley says, “but in the TV series we’re certainly going to be giving that a good try”. And when Karl Urban went under the helmet in 2012’s Dredd – staying true to the original by keeping it on at all times (unlike Stallone) – he found more favour with fans, but both movies failed to tap into the sharp, satirical humour that has fuelled the character since his introduction in the second issue of 2000AD in 1977.Īccording to Jason Kingsley, who runs Rebellion with his brother Chris, it’s time for a screen Dredd to be done right at last. While 1995’s Judge Dredd movie, starring Sylvester Stallone, had something of the look of the comics, it was roundly derided for missing the mark.
The project is still in its early stages, with no director or cast yet in place, but fans are hoping the square-jawed judge, jury and executioner who patrols the future-shocked streets of the 22nd century will finally get the adaptation he deserves.
The game developer and comics publisher Rebellion, which bought the title in the year 2000, is creating a TV series called Judge Dredd: Mega-City One. A fter two attempts to bring classic British comic character Judge Dredd to the big screen, the publishers of 2000AD have decided that the only way to properly adapt the leather-clad lawman of a dystopian future is to do it themselves.