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Dredd and his apprentice partner, Judge Anderson Olivia Thirlby , are forced to bring order to a storey high-rise block of flats and deal with its resident drug lord, Ma-Ma Lena Headey. Garland began writing the script in , although the development of a new Judge Dredd film adaptation, unrelated to the film Judge Dredd , was not announced until December Filming took place on practical sets and locations in Cape Town and Johannesburg. Dredd was released on 7 September in the United Kingdom and on 21 September worldwide.

Critics were generally positive about the film's visual effects , casting and action, while criticism focused on excessive violence as well as a perceived lack of the satirical elements that are found in the source comic. Dredd saw greater success following its home release, and has since been recognised as a cult film. The theatrical gross made a sequel unlikely, but home media sales and fan efforts endorsed by AD ' s publisher Rebellion Developments have maintained the possibility of a second film. The future United States is a dystopic irradiated wasteland known as the Cursed Earth.

On the east coast lies Mega-City One , a violent metropolis with million residents and 17, serious crimes reported daily. The only force for order are the Judges , who act as judge, jury and executioner. Judge Dredd is tasked by the Chief Judge with evaluating new recruit Cassandra Anderson , a powerful psychic who marginally failed the aptitude tests to become a Judge.

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Dredd and Anderson are sent in to investigate and learn of a drug den, which they raid. They arrest a thug named Kay, whom Anderson's mind probe reveals to be the one who carried out the drug dealers' executions. Dredd decides to take him in for questioning. In response, Ma-Ma's forces seize the tower's security control room and seal the building, using its blast shields under the pretence of a security test, preventing the Judges from leaving or summoning help. Ma-Ma orders Dredd and Anderson killed, forcing the Judges to fight their way through dozens of armed thugs.

Arriving at the 76th floor, the Judges are assaulted by Ma-Ma and her men with rotary cannons that rip through the walls, killing numerous residents. The Judges breach an outer wall and call for backup. Meanwhile, Ma-Ma sends her henchman Caleb to search for the Judges. When they meet, Dredd throws Caleb off the tower in full view of Ma-Ma. Dredd suspects Ma-Ma is desperate to keep Kay quiet and beats him for information.

Anderson reads Kay's mind and learns that Peach Trees is the centre of Slo-Mo production and distribution. Anderson suggests they hide while awaiting assistance, but Dredd insists they move up the tower and pursue Ma-Ma. Judges Volt and Guthrie respond to Dredd's call, but Ma-Ma's computer expert denies them entry by persuading them the security system is malfunctioning.

A pair of armed teens confront Dredd and Anderson, allowing Kay to disarm and overpower Anderson. Kay then escapes with her as hostage, and takes her to Ma-Ma's base on the top floor. The four relieve Volt and Guthrie from duty and are allowed into the building. Dredd encounters Chan and is suspicious that he does not ask about Anderson's status.

Seeing his cover blown, Chan attacks Dredd, but is killed. Meanwhile, Kay tries to execute Anderson with her own weapon, but the pistol's DNA scanner does not recognise him and explodes, taking his arm off. She escapes and later encounters Kaplan, whom she promptly kills after reading his mind. Elsewhere, Dredd kills Alvarez but runs out of ammunition. He is subsequently shot and injured by Lex, but Dredd stalls him long enough for Anderson to arrive and kill Lex. Anderson and Dredd obtain the code to Ma-Ma's apartment from her computer expert and confront her.

Ma-Ma tells Dredd that, in the case of her death, a device on her wrist will detonate explosives on the top floors, destroying the building. Dredd reasons that the detonator's signal will not reach the explosives from the ground floor, so he forces Ma-Ma to inhale Slo-Mo and throws her down the atrium to her death. In the aftermath, Anderson accepts that she has failed her evaluation by getting disarmed, and leaves.

The Chief Judge asks Dredd about Anderson's performance; he responds that she has passed. The cast also includes: Development of the film was announced on 20 December , although writer Alex Garland had begun working on the script in Alex Garland concerning writing Dredd's character.

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Garland began writing Dredd during post-production of his other writing credit Sunshine , and completed his first draft while serving as an executive producer during filming of 28 Weeks Later. Garland's draft revolved around one of Dredd's main enemies, the undead Judge Death. He described the story as a "riff on the whole Judge system", but that it did not work because the Judge system had not yet been established and required too much knowledge about the Judge Dredd comic from the audience.

He also considered the end result too surreal and extreme. From this script, Garland decided that the story needed to be more focused and grounded. He instead considered adapting some of the notable Judge Dredd storylines, including " Democracy " and " Origins " He decided to avoid these lengthy tales in favour of a shorter, day-in-the-life story about Dredd and his function as a cop in the dystopian environment of Mega-City One. When developing the Judge Dredd character, Garland tried to closely follow that of the comic-book character, who undergoes only small personality changes over a lengthy period of time.

He makes a very clear statement at the beginning of the film which he then contradicts at the end. That's about as far as the shift goes. Discussing the film's setting within the Peach Tree Block tower, Garland said the buildings were "like micro city states He also considered that the setting met Wagner's suggestion that the future portrayed in Dredd should relate to modern ways of living. Garland named the tower after a restaurant called "The Peach Tree" in Shrewsbury , England, where he first met with Wagner. The budget limited his ability to represent some of the comic aspects of Mega-City One, such as robots and aliens.

Urban would then further revise the script during his performance. The filmmakers decided that Dredd should appear lean and fast like a boxer rather than bulky like "someone who spends hours sort of steroiding himself up. Dredd is out there on the frontline so he needed protection. You wouldn't get to the end of a Sergio Leone Western and go, 'God, I didn't even know the character's name! Dredd's signature weapon, the " Lawgiver " was developed as a fully operational weapon based on a 9mm firing system , capable of firing ammunition and being changed from automatic to semi-auto fire.

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A large fairing was added over the motorcycle with machine guns, an extended wheel base and the largest functional tyres possible. The vehicle was also operational and Urban insisted on riding it himself rather than relying on Chroma key visual effects. Wagner described the necessity of adaptation from the source material and said that the film's attempt to directly replicate the comic's motorcycle was unable to steer because the tyres were too large.

They experimented with an effect to replicate the visual effects of hallucinogenic drugs to see how long it could be used before it distracted the viewer from the story or action sequence. They continued to develop and modify the effect until the end of post-production, tweaking colours, colour saturation, image framing and camera motion. The filmmakers experimented with blood bags, prosthetics, shooting real bullets, and compressed air to see the effect of direct body hits in slow motion.

In the finished film, compressed air was used to create impact ripples on flesh. He said, "You see a whale or a shark breach the water Somehow like a real [drug] trip, sort of stepping outside it but staying attached at the same time. Multiple camera rigs were used. For scenes conveying the time and space altering effects of Slo-Mo, Mantle aimed to create images that would be beautiful but disorienting. Finding a suitable set for the expansive Peach Trees atrium proved difficult, and the producers did not want to build an expensive set.

While observing scouting photos of Cape Town, the filmmakers noticed a large three-walled external space that looked like an interior when filmed at night. A key sequence involving Ma-Ma and her gang firing rotary cannons across the atrium in their attempt to kill Judge Dredd required ten days of filming and eight different sets inside and outside the studio which were blended together with visual effects. Describing the aesthetic he aimed to achieve, he said: If we get it right, it will be a cross between Blade Runner and Clockwork Orange. The filmmakers experimented with the visuals of Mega-City One, including the design and positioning of the city's tower blocks, to create the impression that the city had risen out of the remains of another.

They found that replicating the comic visuals of blocks close together made the blocks appear small. Instead they allowed more space between the buildings to emphasise the larger buildings and allow for the presence of roads and cars to allow for extrapolation outside of the picture. Outcrops and appendages were added to break up the buildings' straight lines. Garland took over the editing process; his contribution was considered significant enough for him to seek a co-director credit—a situation considered unusual as Garland had never directed a film before and had not been in charge of any filming.

The disagreement concerned a disapproval over the footage that Travis was providing. Although Travis was removed from the editing process, he was monitoring the progress of the film. On 10 October, Travis and Garland released a joint statement claiming that they had agreed on an "unorthodox collaboration" before production began, that Travis was still involved in the film and that Garland was not seeking a co-director credit.

Paul Leonard-Morgan wrote the film's industrial music score. He experimented with band-based music, but decided it sounded over-produced and too safe. He turned to electronic music and used s-style synthesisers and modern sound modules to create various combinations and applied distortion and other effects to the result. Leonard-Morgan said, "I was looking to create a timeless score which couldn't be placed in any particular era.

So it's ended up being a cross between a modern dance track and evocative soundscapes. He then added additional real-time score to the slowed track. An unofficially altered Justin Bieber song served as inspiration for the Slo-Mo theme. Garland said that Portishead instrumentalist Geoff Barrow "sent me a link to a Justin Bieber song slowed down times and it became this stunning trippy choral music.

The film used Bieber's music as a temporary placeholder during editing before the score was finalised. The film also features songs by artists including: In August , the viral advertising site "Dredd Report" was launched, satirising the Drudge Report. The site featured a video condemning the use of Slo-Mo, and links to news about the film. Ma-Ma forms a relationship with Eric—the creator of Slo-Mo. An exclusive film poster featuring artwork by Jock was released by Mondo to promote the film's appearance at the Fantastic Fest in September Urban has criticised the film's marketing campaign, saying that the film had "zero audience awareness.

Nobody knew the movie was being released.

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Dredd represents a failure in marketing, not filmmaking. This made it the weekend's number-one film, the first film restricted to audiences over 18 years of age to do so since Saw 3D in The film received positive reviews from critics. The website's critical consensus reads, "Fueled by bombastic violence and impressive special effects, rooted in self-satire and deadpan humor, Dredd 3D does a remarkable job of capturing its source material's gritty spirit. Hewitt also called Thirlby's Anderson engaging and wrote that the film is "a solid, occasionally excellent take on [Judge Dredd], with Urban's chin particularly impressive.

Entertainment Weekly ' s Darren Franich said that the film is a "darkly funny blood-soaked romp" and singled out Urban for his "credibly wry performance using little more than his gravelly, imitation- [Clint] Eastwood voice—and his chin. He also wrote, "In a world of compromised adaptations, Dredd is something of a triumph. Sneddon described Anderson as repeatedly shown to have power over men who underestimate her, while Ma-Ma displays more intelligence and sadism than any of her male gang members, and neither woman interacts with the other on the basis of their gender.

Dalton also said that Urban's performance, while close to the comic, lacked something. Overall Dalton said, "[p]itched at the right level to please original fans, but still slick and accessible enough to attract new ones, [Dredd] feels like a smart and muscular addition to the sci-fi action genre.

Many US newspaper critics were less taken with the film. Mark Olsen of the Los Angeles Times called it "a clunk-headed action picture" that "simply becomes a monotonous series of bad-guy confrontations. The visual effects and slow-motion sequences induced by Slo-Mo received broad praise.

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Berkshire said that they are notable and eye-catching with "impressively utilised 3D. The film's use of 3D is often excellent including the credits and it really comes to life in the Slo-mo scenes". Judge Dredd creator John Wagner, who had been critical of the adaptation, gave a positive review of Dredd. It was, unlike the first film, a true representation of Judge Dredd Karl Urban was a fine Dredd and I'd be more than happy to see him in the follow-up.

Olivia Thirlby excelled as Anderson The character and storyline are pure Dredd. Redemption , another action film released a few months earlier, noting that similar elements in setting, story, and characters made Dredd appear derivative. The DVD and Blu-ray editions contain seven featurettes: It was also the best-selling digital download for that period.

In March , executive producer Adi Shankar said that a sequel was unlikely. In July , AD endorsed the fan petition, supporting the campaign by printing advertisements in their publications, and by September it had attracted over 80, signatures. Underbelly , was made available in Judge Dredd Megazine which was released on 18 September Superfiend and all its six episodes were released on 27 October on YouTube. In , Urban said that "conversations are happening" regarding a Dredd continuation on streaming services Netflix or Amazon Prime.

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