While fans of Pete Travis and Alex Garland ’s 2012 Dredd movie are still wondering whether there ’ll ever be a subsequence to the instant cult - classic adjustment , it turn turns out the original motion picture was almost very different — and instead starred one of 2000 A.D. ’s unknown Judges .
Speaking toScreen Geekat a celebratory result marking 2000 A.D. ’s 2000th comical issue over the weekend Dredd ’s co - God Almighty , John Wagner enjoin that one of the first hand for what would become Dredd was in reality a movie about Judge Death , the leader of the undead Dark Judges on Deadworld ( an minded name , really ) , the alternate 2000 A.D. reality where being alive is a law-breaking punishable by … well , death :
Wilhelm Richard Wagner : [ Dredd ] would work very well as a television show – it just reckon on how it ’s done . It could work very as a film . I mean – everyone wants to see Judge Death , do n’t they ?
SG : Yeah , they unquestionably do .
Wilhelm Richard Wagner : I would n’t listen seeing that . That was actually the first script that Alex Garland did was a Judge Death script but Fox , who they were apportion with at the time , turned it down . They wanted more nuts and bolts before they move into the [ metaphysical ] .
Apparently , Fox thought the undead Judge was a bit too uncanny to start a potential franchise on , so it was rework until we eventually get the Dredd - starring movie we ended up with . Who eff , in the far - flung future whenever Dredd 2 : The Dreddening ever happens , Judge Death could show up then ?
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