"NEGOTIATION'S OVER!" WE WANT THAT 'JUDGE DREDD' SEQUEL!

He is the law! JUDGE DREDD, as personified by Karl Urban, aims high. Images: LIONSGATE.

Having painfully endured Sylvester Stallone and Danny Cannon's 1995 cinematic "interpretation" of the classic UK 2000AD comics maverick lawman with the sardonic and dangerous Clint Eastwood/DIRTY HARRY edge that is future cop JUDGE DREDD, I'd given up the hope that we'd ever see a decent movie version of writer John Wagner and artist Carlos Ezquerra's superior graphic novel  creation and media icon, who instantly made an impact and become a legend, almost a British version of BATMAN, from 1977 onwards. Fortunately, last year's terrific endeavour, low budget but still looking like a blockbuster, with STAR TREK's Karl Urban doing a superb job behind the mask- giving him the right spirit of indomitable fearlessness and destructive superiority within a crime hit tower block ruled by the heinous drug lord Ma-Ma (played with disfigured spite by GAME OF THRONES star Lena Headey), totally restored my faith in the hero's on-screen potential and really hit the target creatively, so it amazed me that the film, an international success and a relatively well received project with critics and fans who'd grown up with the character-failed to make any kind of mark in the all-important US territories-perhaps because Paul Verhoeven's equally iconic and similar ROBOCOP had ultimately, and unintentionally, stole so many of its ideas and its potential thunder back in the late eighties.

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Regardless of its lack of impact States-side, the re-imagined, back to basics DREDD has become a well-deserved cult classic in the best BLADE RUNNER traditions, and is ever gaining in popularity. None of the people behind the scenes in the cinematic development world of DREDD (including director Peter Travis and writer/producer Alex Garland), nor star Urban, want to see the planned Trilogy of stories bite the dust or enter limbo, not with the kind of characters and backstory universe that could be so richly mined in the future, so add your voice to the campaign to get the next movie made- I particularly want to see the back from the dead skeletal menace of Judge Death terrorising our hero and PSI-powered sidekick Judge Anderson (played by cute Olivia Thirlby), from its reality to ours, as well as a trip or mission through the horrific, apocalyptic environs of the stricken Cursed Earth-what a finale that could be!

People power can make a difference in the worlds of genre film and TV, so let's all get cracking on Dredd's Day of Action this 18th September!

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