Dredd is not a remake of the 1995 Judge Dredd starring
Sylvester Stallone, but a new beginning for a projected series of films based
on the comic stories from the UK's 2000 A.D. I read the Eagle Comics reprints
of the early Judge Dredd comics stories from the late-70’s/early-80’s and
thought that the 1995 film didn’t do the comics justice. Reading some of the
early reviews, it seems as if Dredd will
be truer to the comics.
According to ScienceFiction.com:
Judge Dredd is the
law and proved it with the film ‘Dredd 3D’ topping the box office in the UK
last weekend. According to THR, the Peter Travis reboot film took the #1 spot
beating ‘Anna Karenina’, ‘Lawless’, and ‘That’s My Boy’.
This marks the first
time an 18 certificate (which is equivalent to an ‘R’ rating across the pond)
has taken the top box office spot in British theaters since 2010, the year ‘Saw
3D’ was released. While no exact figures have been released, estimates have the
film taking in more than £1 million ($1.65 million) on its opening weekend
ahead of the Kira Knightley and Jude Law film ‘Anna Karenina’ which brought in
£980,000 ($1.60 million).
With such a strong debut in England, that tells me that
Dredd pleased the fans who are more familier with that character and its source
material than anywhere. That makes me hopeful that Dredd should be more than worth
the effort to see in the theater.
Dredd opens in the United States on September 21. Watch the “red
band” trailer for Dredd and see for yourself if Dredd is worth your time and
money. If nothing else, this trailer proves that it deserves its R rating.
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