Judge Dredd creator John Wagner has spoken to the L.A. Times on the upcoming Dredd, due for release this September. Wagner who created the original 2000 A.D. with Carlos Ezquerra in 1977, told the paper how the new version differs from 1995’s Sylvester Stallone effort: "'Dredd' homes in on the essential job of judging, Instant justice in a violent future city... The plot is about Dredd and his world. It’s impossible to cover every aspect of the character and his city. Perhaps that was one of the failings of the first film. They tried to do too much and ended up with not a lot." "though apart from my initial viewing I haven’t seen the film since it came out. They told the wrong story. It didn’t have that much to do with Dredd the character as we know him. I don’t think Stallone was a bad Dredd,...
- 1/20/2012
- by noreply@blogger.com (Sean)
- www.themoviebit.com
Karl Urban will not remove his helmet in the Judge Dredd movie, the character's creator has revealed. John Wagner has revealed some more facts about Lionsgate's adaptation of the 2000 Ad strip, and the reasons that he thinks the 1995 Sylvester Stallone version failed. "Dredd homes in on the essential job of judging," Wagner told the Los Angeles Times. "Instant justice in a violent future city... The plot is about Dredd and his world. It's impossible to cover every aspect of the character and his city. Perhaps that was one of the failings of the first film. They tried to do too much and ended up with not a lot." He said that he had not watched the former adaptation since its release. "They told the wrong story," Wagner continued. "It didn't (more)...
- 1/20/2012
- by By Hugh Armitage
- Digital Spy
Arriving in theaters later this year, Lionsgate's Dredd re-adapts the "Judge Dredd" comic from the pages of "2000 A.D." with Karl Urban donning the iconic helmet, starring alongside Olivia Thirlby as Judge Anderson. Today, The L.A. Times spoke with John Wagner who, in 1977, created the character alongside artist Carlos Ezquerra. "'Dredd' homes in on the essential job of judging," says Wagner of the new film's plot. "Instant justice in a violent future city... The plot is about Dredd and his world. It.s impossible to cover every aspect of the character and his city. Perhaps that was one of the failings of the first film. They tried to do too much and ended up with not a lot." The previous take on the property hit theaters in 1995...
- 1/19/2012
- Comingsoon.net
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