dreddhead123
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This new film is heading for total disaster and a complete betrayal of Dredd. I'll explain why.
1) The screenplay IS a Die Hard rip-off. If you doubt my word, please read the leaked screenplay. You can Google it and find the download link. Go read it and judge for yourselves.
Apeing Die Hard is a major mistake. Yes, the action may be decent - Dredd in corridors taking out perps, I'm not saying the action in Dredd 2 will be bad, who knows, it could be fantastic (budget permitting) - but the screenplay needs more input from Wagner. It's imperative.
The only chance Dredd 2 has got is if most viewers don't care it's apeing Die Hard. If they don't care it could be a hit however if they DO CARE it's going to flop. Personally, I don't think it's worth the risk. Making a film involves risk, that's the nature of the beast, but I would scrap much of Garland's screenplay, let Wagner do some major rewrites, make it more colourful, more like the early golden years Dredd strips. You can still have the R rated action but give it more character.
The leaked Garland screenplay does not have enough character, it's unimaginative, uninspired, too predictable, too generic, it's too much of stuff we've see before. I'd scrap slo-mo which is a blatant rip-off of bullet time. Change the drug to stookie or something. At least that's something specific to Dredd's world. Let the perps be selling stookie and that keeps them young. That would work.
2) Producer Andrew MacDonald
"and John Wagner is involved in every decision."
This stuff about "and John Wagner is involved in every decision" is nonsense because Wagner would never write a Dredd Hard screenplay, he'd never make the main villain a hooker called Ma-Ma. Yes, the main villain is called Ma-Ma. How lame. He'd never have ambulances and paramedics in Dredd's world. He'd have med-judges and med-wagons. I doubt he'd make the perps say the f word all the time. It's just lies or deception to sell the film to the public. Nobody will buy this stuff because Wagner would never do Die Hard in a MC-1 block plot for a Dredd film, he'd come up with something a lot more imaginative and true to the spirit of the comic character.
The people making Dredd 2 are not smart. They think they can kid fans with "John Wagner is involved in every decision" but when you read the leaked screenplay you know most of it feels nothing like Wagner's work. What input has he made, what decisions has he approved? It's just empty words, meaningless nonsense. It's no surprise you have one of the producers saying the trite comments
"Our idea is to make a very hard, R-rated, gritty, realistic movie of Dredd in Megacity, so we’ve got to get the tone right. He’s not going to take off his helmet. His bike is going to feel real. He’s going to hit people and it’s going to feel real."
It's just a dumb thing to say. The quality of Dredd 2 depends on how realistic it is? That's illogical thinking, Mr MacDonald, because Dredd is a sci-fi character set in a make-believe world. It's not meant to be realistic. You can't even grasp the basic concept of Dredd. It's not meant to be realistic. It's meant to be a fantasy world full of over-the top characters and perps. Go read Judge Cal - is that meant to be realistic? Go read Judge Child - is that meant to be realistic? Judge Death - realistic? Cry of the Werewolf - realistic? Citizen Snork - realistic? Tour of Duty - realistic? A story about mutants rights and some crazed psycho killer using a robot sex droid to kill the Chief Judge. Is that realistic?
No, of course not. That's the whole point of Dredd! It's not meant to be realistic. It's sci-fi, exaggerated sci-fi.
The people making the film don't even get the basics of Dredd. They can't even get the basic concept right hence why Garland - a hack who most likely read a few Dredds back in the school playground and never thought much else about it - has written Die Hard in a MC-1 block. Although Die Hard is an over-the-top film it's grounded in 20th century America. There's nothing about Die Hard that is applicable to Dredd other than the fact John McClane is a cop and Dredd is a cop. That's where the similarities begin and end. But the people making Dredd 2 are shoehorning Dredd's world into Die Hard's world. And they compound their foolishness with trite comments like:
"Our idea is to make a very hard, R-rated, gritty, realistic movie of Dredd in Megacity, so we’ve got to get the tone right."
They've got it totally wrong. They so foolish they don't even get the fact Dredd is sci-fi fantasy, not sci-fi realism.
The whole thing is hilarious. They're totally clueless.
< Message edited by dreddhead123 -- 15/8/2010 1:03:35 AM >
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