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MoBiUGeArSkIn -> RE: Dredd Trailer Rides In (21/6/2012 9:41:45 PM)
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If you really dig into it, there's an accurate script review posted on AICN via Latino Reviews. It's accurate all the way down to the name of the Block in the finished film (Peach Trees). That review is dated July 2010, a whole eight months before the cameras rolled on The Raid in March 2011.
Marantau came out in Indonesia in the Summer of 2009. Gareth Evans and crew worked for just over a year on a project called "Barandal", which fell through because they couldn't get the budget. So, if you go with the rough time scale, Gareth Evans was looking for a script in order to make a movie around the time that DREDD's script became available to the public...
I'm just going to come out and say that Gareth Evans probably read it. The script was not hard to find! Not that I think it takes anything away from The Raid, which just needed an excuse to kick ass! Favourite film of the year so far, easy.
John Wagner, creator of Judge Dredd, has seen the film, posted the following on his Facebook page:
"I went up to London yesterday to see the completed Dredd film. I’ve had reservations about certain aspects of it, and made them plain to the team at DNA. All but one of them – a little quibble at the beginning – have been addressed. And what a lot they’ve added. Music is on the button. SFX are excellent. Filming is impressive. I’ve not seen a modern 3-D movie before but I like it. I found myself reaching out trying to touch things that were dancing before my eyes. Karl is a great Dredd and Olivia gets Anderson completely. This is Dredd as it should be done – true to character, visceral, unrelentingly violent (but not off-puttingly so). It will open, I believe, sometime in September. No doubt you’ll let me know what you think when you’ve seen it, but this has my recommendation."
So if he thinks it's good... I'd say it must be doing something right.
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