DREDD
"JUDGE DREDD" Will Get A Reboot
DNA Films, Reliance Big Entertainment and IM Global are teaming to develop a 3D film adaptation of John Wagner's UK comic "Judge Dredd" reports Deadline.Alex Garland ("28 DAYS LATER", "SUNSHINE") penned the script and Pete Travis ("VANTAGE POINT") will direct the sub-$50 million project set in a futuristic world where cops have become judge, jury - and if necessary - executioner.
The project will ignore the big-budget 1995 film adaptation starring Sylvester Stallone and will go back to the comic's roots. Despite DNA's deal with Fox, it seems Fox won't be involved in the project.
Synopsis : The future America is an irradiated waste land. On its East Coast, running from Boston to Washington DC, lies Mega City One - a vast, violent metropolis where criminals rule the chaotic streets. The only force of order lies with the urban cops called "Judges" who possess the combined powers of judge, jury and instant executioner. Known and feared throughout the city, Dredd is the ultimate Judge, challenged with ridding the city of its latest scourge - a dangerous drug epidemic that has users of "Slo-Mo" experiencing reality at a fraction of its normal speed. During a routine day on the job, Dredd is assigned to train and evaluate Cassandra Anderson, a rookie with powerful psychic abilities thanks to a genetic mutation. A heinous crime calls them to a neighborhood where fellow Judges rarely dare to venture - a 200 storey vertical slum controlled by prostitute turned drug lord Ma-Ma and her ruthless clan. When they capture one of the clan's inner circle, Ma-Ma overtakes the compound's ...
Source : dark-horizons.com / Oh My Gore !
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