Netflix to greenlight Judge Dredd TV series!
 

Sure, this may be a thread for Batty and me alone, but rather than clog up my soon-to-be-revived album thread with details on it as we have been doing, anyone who wants to discuss the coming of 2000AD's finest lawman to the small screen in around 2019 we can do so here. I know I'm as excited as a very excited person who has a very special reason to be excited!

Judge Dredd: Mega-City One TV series on Netflix starring Karl Urban

now who's going to make a thread for the sabrina the teenage witch netflix series

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ANYWAYS... so, TH, assuming they'll be adapting actual Dredd storylines and not just doing their own thing, how do you think they should start? I mean Block Madness and The Apocalypse War are a full season thing and would need at least a season or two of introducing the characters and world before they would have the impact they should. The Cursed Earth is amazing, but it's just so nonsensical at times that it's something they should ease themselves into maybe mid-season or end-of-season or something, and I'd say it would be better to hold off for a season anyway.

I'm not at all familiar enough with Dredd to recommend anything, but clearly something that's Mega City One-centric and explores the basics would make the only amount of sense, but those stories are so scattershot that I don't think I've stumbled upon that story yet. I think something like The Hotdog Run would be good for late-early season/early-late season since, while it is about the Cursed Earth and not Mega City One, it's a good intro to the outside world and really sells the idea of just what the Judges are and what is expected of them. Drives home the idea that they're a new age Aryan race and that's pretty important. First Dredd story I ever loved btw.

The first epic Dredd story was Robot Wars, with Call-Me-Kenneth leading all the robots to revolution against their human masters, and I think that could play well in this era of blockbuster robot/transformer-style movies, and would also set the scene for later events, so maybe they ought to look at that. You're right that TCE would be amazing but you'd want to be maybe a season or two in (dare we hope?) before tackling anything like that.

Haven't read the Robot Wars, but with a series called Mega-City One you'd expect it to at least start with something archetypal about Mega-City One, the Judges, and what the dynamic of the world is. It's going to be introducing the entire concept of Judge Dredd to a lot of people who at most may have seen the Stallone movie so it's going to have to build the mythology from the ground up.

Yeah, giving it a bit more thought now I'd hope they'd follow generally the comic, with say most of season one just "on-the-street" stories that, as you say, introduce Dredd and the concept of the Judges, Mega-City One and so forth, then at the end of season 1 run into the Robot Wars.

Season 2 should then cover that and then later Block War which would lead into

Season 3 The Apocalypse War (cos you know why)

Season 4 they might be able to go Cursed Earth on that bitch then

Season 5 introduces the Dark Judges

In between they could have standalone eps like The Fatties, The New You Face Parlor, Hot Dog Run, Mutants (introducing the Cursed Earth), Angel Gang and so on.

You don't think season 2 should cover The Cursed Earth? Season 1 should be all about actual Mega-City One and everything about how it operates, with glimpses of the outside world for world-building, but after that I think Cursed Earth would be a perfect way to then do everything beyond the walls. And then season 3 being Block War/Apocalypse War?

But there isn't a definitive storyline that fleshes out Mega-City One? Even a later arc? Or is it really just all about the single stories for that?

I guess there are several ways it could go. Dredd was always (probably still is) an evolving story, with more either being introduced or maybe even thought up to fill in gaps as it went along. I mean, the Cursed Earth was only vaguely referred to as some sort of radioactive desert originally, then one of the first ten or so stories featured some mutants being tracked there by Dredd, and then Wagner obviously had the idea of expanding that into a real epic, god bless him. So there's probably no real set storyline per se, but I could see the main epics (TCE/Judge Child/Day the Law Died/Block War/Apocalypse War/Dark Judges etc) all more or less following in some kind of sequence.

Karl Urban for the win. All that's left is:

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I was also wondering if she'd be back.

I just made the connection between the megablock from the movie, Peach Trees, and a lower income neighborhood where I live named Peach Tree. It's not really a ghetto, but it's definitely not somewhere I'd be thrilled to walk around after dark. I lol'd.

Alright, might as well put this here I guess since it's a Judge Dredd thread, but I'm reading "America", from the first issues of the Judge Dredd Megazine, and it was sold to me as one of the best Dredd stories, something mature and just plain great. And yet it feels like the most cliched, self-important nonsense that could ever be written about anything, and which should never have come out of Judge ****ing Dredd of all things. Like, as far as I've known, Dredd has always been about satirizing America and encroaching autocracy, and it did so brazenly and without artifice, while having the most ridiculous laugh about it. But this story is pretending like doing the same damn thing and being completely humorless about it is somehow creative and not just annoying.

Am I crazy or is "America" ****ing lame?

Do they have a pick for JD yet, Brolin would be good I reckon.

Karl Urban most likely.

This isn't a story I've read, but is it not "Amerika" (with a K)? Anyway, no, I don't know it, but I believe there were some later terrible Dredd stories, particularly when 2000AD was going through that "Girls don't get it" stupidity phase (you really should watch that documentary: eye-opening).

Of the ones I've read, that I can remember (been reading Dredd for over a quarter of a century) I'd rate them thus:

The Cursed Earth
Judge Death Lives
The Day the Law Died
The Judge Child
Judge Death
Oz
Apocalypse War
Block Mania
The Dead Man
Robot Wars

I'm sure there are others I've forgotten. Oh, Dredd's time on Luna-1 was great too.

No, it's "America". About a girl named America protesting the Judges' control over Mega-City One, and she's got a childhood friend who's in love with her who becomes like a Weird Al comedy singer. It's from 1990 I believe and definitely seems to be around the start of a grittier, grimmer period like all of comics at the time. It's actually pretty highly rated as one of the best Dredd stories.

Jesus it looks terrible.


One of my favourite Dredd lines (wasn't him, but from the story).
Guy for some reason gets turned into a giant spider.
Judge: "You're under arrest!"
Spider guy: "What for?"
Judge: "What do you mean, what for? For turning into a giant spider!"
Spider guy: "Is that a crime?"
Judge: "You know, you've got me there!"
:laughing:

I'm willing to give it another shot since it did have some cleverness to it (written by John Wagner after all) but the main problem for me was that it tried the same kind of self-aware and in-your-face form of satire that Dredd was famous for, but without any of the absurdist humor that allows for that kind of bat**** crazy creativity that justifies the obviousness of the messages. I mean the main character is an obvious allegory for America and her name is "America", but it's played straight as if that isn't stupid and heavy handed.

But lots of other people suck that story's dick so maybe I'm the problem. The art is still definitely garish though.

Now that's the good stuff.

Edit: BTW maybe this thread should be renamed "The Dredd Thredd".

*groans*

It's Judge Dredd. Unsubtle is the name of the game.

There's nothing to stop us quoting/remembering our favourite Dredd moments, of course. I do remember one crazy line: "Control, this is Dredd. Prepare the iso-cubes. I'm bringing in the entire Mega-City Song Contest!" :laughing:

Can we also hate on Walter?

And you really think you wouldn't like JoJo's Bizarre Adventure?

:laughing: Still one of my favorite things ever. I need to read this comic to see the context, but it's one of the best out of context comic pages of all-time.

BTW as of six hours ago according to an article based on information from half a year ago, Karl Urban is very much interested in reprising his role as Dredd, and has shown staunch support between the movie and now, but there is still absolutely no greenlight on him being in the new series. Bitch needs to get with it. Not saying no one else can play Dredd, cause he's not exactly the most emotionally complex character in the world, but we already know he works so I'm down.

Karl Urban Would Love to Come Back for Judge Dredd TV Show

Been reading a ****load of Dredd recently. Had the day off so I've spent all of it going through the "Democracy" storyline ("Letter from a Democrat", "Revolution", "Politics", "A Letter to Judge Dredd", and "Tale of the Dead Man") and now I'm set to go right from that into the "Necropolis" arc. Jesus this is good ****.

Not much new information but apparently the pilot script is done and they've got the first two years mapped out, and while Karl Urban still hasn't been confirmed he's still vocal about wanting to do it.

Judge Dredd: Mega City One Has Pilot Script Ready | Den of Geek

I've been reading the Judge Dredd files Volume #1 with all of his original stories from 2000 AD, it's awesome. Judge Dredd is bad ass. I liked that last movie a lot, I'm not huge into the marvel shows on Netflix but I will give this a chance.

I've been reading Case Files 5 with The Apocalypse War, along with one of the more modern TPBs, Tour of Duty: Backlash, and it's all great. The Democracy storyline and Necropolis are amazing stories I've recently read as well and Dredd's become one of my favorite comics in the last year.

And you have me to thank for it. You're welcome. :p:

The longer this goes on the more I get terrified that this show is gonna get dropped. If Mega-City One gets dropped I think it'll be the second coming of Firefly for me except Firefly actually had a season so I'll have to shoot up a religious center to make up for it.

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