Judge DREDD & Judge Anderson In New Behind-The-Scenes Photos

The uniform and the helmet look spot on in those pictures. The uniform kinda reminds me of the first Mad Max film in that second picture.

The uniform is anything but "spot-on", no eagle, no chained badge, no colour!! It just looks cheap and dull with bits moulded into a rubber suit for convenient quick removal.

At least Stallones version captured the 'splendour' and 'pride' of having a uniform representing the establishment. This just looks like dirt-bike gear. and once again, Karl Urban has no physique to occupy that suit let alone the helmet.

The Mad Max uniform/concept was based on Dredd in the first place.

Ceejay"At least Stallones version captured the 'splendour' and 'pride' of having a uniform representing the establishment."


Oh 'splendour' all right. The only thing the Stallone suit captured was 'Gay Pride'. Gold plastic ornaments from a Pound-Shop and a cod-piece.


And if you don't think Urban has the physique, look at early Dredd by Ezquerra and MacMahon. Dredd was supposed to be lean and fit not like a steroid, brainless lunk.

Besides, Stallone's lycra cat-suit looked like he'd never spent one day on the streets of the Meg but sat all-day in his quarters buffing up his shiny parts.

SMART TO KEEP THE TRAILER FROM US? SMART TO KEEP US GUESSING? SMART NOT TO HYPE THIS MOVIE UP AND ADVERTISE ALL THE GOOD SCENES? YES...

I'm really looking forward to this movie. I have a soft spot for Dredd as i used to read 2000AD as a kid before i discovered America comics. Particular favourites were Dredd, Strontium Dog, ABC Warriors (spread the word...) and Rogue Trooper.

I know it wasn't exactly what i would have envisioned for a Dredd movie, but am i the only person in the world that actually likes the first Dredd movie? It's not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but it is still reasonably entertaining. It had Hammerstein in it, gotta love it for that if nothing else:)

dreddhead123



Considering your opinion of this film veers wildly between the bi-polar extremes of "this looks the phucking greatest" to "this film will be complete schyte" in the space of minutes anytime something is said, released or the ambient frequency of your bedroom changes- I believe you have proven yourself to be totally unreliable in regards any objectivity and your opinion has been rendered completely moribund and useless as any barometer in guaging the quality or auguring the propects of Dredd.

Take a good look at yourself.

Inspired too. :P Typo.


Instant, I stand by my comments about the trailer. If the trailer is good, why hold it back? If the trailer/film suck then you would want to hold back the trailer because you're worried. Executive producer Stuart Ford hyped up Dredd saying stuff like "this is a film we think will appeal to fan boys, Dredd fans, action fans." Well, if he's right why aren't they showcasing it in a trailer?

If this film is good, why the need to hide it from the public?

I dunno the reason other than a 'guess' the film is a bit poor and they're in no hurry to show any footage. And 'footage' is the key word here. A few good photos do not represent footage. People may like the new look uniform and that cool shot of the skyline and blocks but it's not actual footage. Let's see some acting, camera movement, frames of moving film, and then we will know if this film is Dredd On Arrival or Dead On Arrival!

Ceejay - Stallone's was gayer than south Park's Big Gay Al with a vibrating pink banana up his arse.

When I say "spot on" I mean it's just right. It's not an exact translation from the (modern) comics on all levels but it is exactly what it needs to be. The helmet, however, is a direct translation.

INSTANTJUSTICE - I've never seen those Max posters before. He didn't wear that gear in the movie, did he? Very Dredd though, either way.

Everything just looks right. I have a feeling this will be awesome.

I just hope it doesn't turn into another punisher war zone. violent with some cool explosions, but ultimately forgettable and dumb.

wildbillyb - That was down to Lexi Alexander just NOT getting the feel of it. She didn't understand that all the neon lighting cheapens a comic-based movie and camped it up a bit too much. I.e. Jigsaw.

Hopefully this Director has a better sensibility and I have faith in Garland's scripting. His novel, the Beach, is bleak and beautiful, which is what Dredd needs.

@dreddhead123 - all good points, sadly.

Still no trailer? ...

Must be released September 2013 then?

@Nomis - Thanks, yeah it was cool back then, I did a lot of stuff like posters for conventions, did a graphic novel for the Lone Wolf series with Joe Dever too. But I got tired of that side of the business and moved on to running a comic and film merchandise shop for 7 years. Easily the best job ever, I couldn't go back to freelancing as a comic book illustrator after that, I just stayed in retail. Now days it all seems like another life completely.

@ Ceejay - Nice!!! Love your work. Kinda reminds me of Cam Kennedy a little bit.

@Ceejay I don't feel the need to declare credentials and neither should you.


"Yes Stallone's costume was not spot on but it got a lot of the basic elements right like the eagle, the chain and the shoulder padding although that should not have been metallic and the material for the body suit should have been leather."


Problem is though, it looks awful, awful as in plastic bad 80's 90's sci-fi, and the proportions are phucked when all of it is put together. In a physical context, it looks silly.

The new Dredd still retains the basic elements of black leather, a more accurate helmet, pads, badge and eagle emblems. He still looks baroque, bureaucratic and made to to the things he is intended to do: judge, jury & executioner on the streets of MC-1. The intended essence is still there. I just don't see how it looks cheap, sorry. It's Stallone's that looks cheap, even toy-like, to me.

"They're a union of both judicial system and police force rolled in to one which is why they wear regalia such as an Eagle. THIS IS ESSENTIAL and its not prominent on the new film's costume."


I'm not blind and it's all still there. There's an eagle on his shoulder, an eagle on his badge another on his belt-buckle and a crest on his helmet*. How much more insignia porn do you want?

*and there's a uniform beneath the kevlar armour that also has a version of the eagle pad. The armour is street-wear, so you never know about that chain...


"It does not matter what or where Carlos got his influences from, the movie isn't about his influences, it's about Dredd! Carlos's drew Dredd as a black guy, that was his vision, later artists drew him as white with a big chin simply because they didn't understand why he made the lips so prominent. "


I never mentioned Carlos' influences, don't know why you're bringing it up.

Carlos didn't draw Dredd as a black man but someone of 'mixed' race as he explained in one of the old annuals. It was Mick McMahon who believed he looked black, but, no one else thought that. This was pretty much nixed from the get-go in Dredd's first appearance in PROG 2 where the back page is coloured and Dredd is caucasian.


To me Urban looks iconically Dredd, and with regalia intact, infinitely more than Stallone and his sailor-suit ever did.

ceejay- "They're a union of both judicial system and police force rolled in to one which is why they wear regalia such as an Eagle. THIS IS ESSENTIAL and its not prominent on the new film's costume."




Looks like a pretty big official looking eagle pad to me.

@Ceejay: Sorry dude, but it looks like that artwork is from the 90s "bigger is better is cooler" school of drawing. That shoulder pad is way too stupid-big to be anything but a hindrance.

Surely, you, as an artist, realises the difference between a stylised version of a uniform on a printed page to what is practical in live action on a real person?

There is nothing wrong with this uniform. It might not be the Dredd you visualise, but it is, quite unmistakably, Dredd.

@KeithM - Yet Stallone managed to make it work practically in the film and the comic has done so since the 70's thru to the 2012.

Uh, no Ceejay, he didn't. It looks, like IJ has been saying, shiny plasticky tacky.

And once again, page is not screen.

The complaints regarding the lack of trailer seem valid to me.

There is nothing childish about it. It just shows a lack of respect for the fanbase that have been waiting patiently for this to come out since 2010. The film comes out in 3 months and to not even reward the fans with a teaser trailer to get us excited just feels like a big FU to the fans. To not even have a trailer for a film of this kind so close to the release is unheard of- regardless of how low the budget is and what kind of competition is out there. The longer they leave it the less likely we are to be forgiving about the final product. At this point it better be damn good.

ceejay- "and just for the record, that artwork you refer to and the art shown by INSTANTJUSTICE in his post, is actually the same artist, Carlos Ezquerra! One picture is of how He drew Dredd in its very early conception and the other from the 90's as you said, some 20+ years later!"



and both are still valid as interpretations of Dredd, on the page.