I remember in the ’90s I would go into videogame development studios. “On the DVD or Blu-ray special features, they actually show you one of the early designs for RoboCop, and it’s the spitting image of Judge Dredd, it really is, and some of the RoboCop dialogue could be lifted straight out of Dredd’s mouth. Geek's Guide to the Galaxy Donnie Darko Is No Cult Classic-It’s a Straight Up Classicĭavid Bishop on the influence of 2000 AD: And check out some highlights from the discussion below. Listen to the complete interview with David Bishop in Episode 267 of Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy (above). “I have no direct knowledge of this,” Bishop says, “but I would be very surprised if they’re not having conversations with Karl Urban to get him to come back and make cameo appearances in the TV show when it finally comes to pass.”

Dredd fans have been clamoring for a sequel, but at the moment the best hope for more Dredd seems to be a recently announced TV project, one that will hopefully involve Urban. Unfortunately Dredd underperformed in North America, a fact Bishop attributes to poor marketing and the unfortunate legacy of the earlier film. “It absolutely captures the essence of Dredd.” Garland and Urban are both longtime fans of the comic, and together they produced a smart, engaging action movie that treats the material with respect.

“If that had been the first Batman movie, I think we wouldn’t be watching Batman movies.”ĭredd got another chance in 2012 with the release of Dredd, written by Alex Garland and starring Karl Urban. “It would be like if Batman & Robin was the first Batman film to come out, with the nipples and the AmEx card,” Bishop says. Unfortunately in America the character is best known from the execrable 1995 Sylvester Stallone vehicle Judge Dredd, which turned the character into something of a punch line. The best-known character to emerge from the magazine is Judge Dredd, a fascist dystopian antihero.

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