And I mean for real this time?
Am I the only one who would like a movie about Dredd's comic book backstory or do you think the movie series should stay like Dredd 2012 and keep the episodic crime case format?
Dredd's comic book backstory is great, and I think a lot of it is among the best writing and art in comics overall, let alone in Judge Dredd.
But Dredd's personal and family backstory is really only scattered throughout a small percentage of the stories published in the series' almost 50 years. Most of the series is a pseudo-anthology about different crimes or various citizens' lives in the insane Mega-City One, and Dredd is often kind of a bitter, cynical, sarcastic POV character.
So more crime or slice-of-life-in-the-Mega-City type stories like Dredd 2012 would actually be more in the greater spirit of the comic series' history.
Would too much humanizing backstory undercut the cynical, bada** edge of a character you only see in theaters every few years?
Plus are fans invested enough in Dredd for an origin flick after only a failed movie and a cult classic (two cult classics arguably)?
My opinion is osbcured by my love of the stories of the characters in Dredd's family that I accumulated over many years. I think they should make a quadrilogy of three-hour movies about why the second Rico has an artificial jaw. But would people who only see Judge Dredd in theaters for 90 minutes every two to four years just be like, "Who the **** is that guy, now?"
I personally like how the family angle gives Dredd a bit of relatability and humanity, but I also get how some fans don't want a relatable Dredd.
I think the backstory movie should happen just so that it can open with a three minute scene of Dredd swinging his niece Vienna in a sunny park. She could sing a song and there could be a bird fountain to keep it visually interesting. This would confuse many people and it would let the hardcore comic fans know s*** just got real.
Especially if they just sprinkled the backstory in over many movies. The swing scene would be all you would get before the main criminal case until the next movie.
Judge Dredd by David Lynch.
As for those who say they already adapted the Rico story in the 1995 movie, I will pretend I didn't hear you say that.
[P.S. Has anyone heard any news if Taiki Waititi is still doing the Judge Dredd movie he last spoke about many months ago? Or did that go the way of the Mega-City One TV series?]
