Alex Garland Dredd Interview - TIFF 2012

[@toffee20]

no one deserve a sequel more than this guy!

[@moeezS]

This is a really great interview, seeing Garland be so honest about the process and also scoops on where the sequels might go.

[@brewt1mer]

great interview..thanks for uploading

[@AxeMan808]

Unlike so many people adapting comic books movies, he A> actually read the comics, rather than just glancing through one to see what the "look" is, and B> holds the original material in reverence, to the degree of bringing a creator in and actually utilizing his input, rather than just plugging his creations in all willy-nilly (Robocop 2 and T. Jane Punisher, I'm glowering at you).

[@m1lst3r89]

What's wrong with T. Jane Punisher? It is a bit too grim, but if you read comics, it's down on the money.

[@AxeMan808]

@@m1lst3r89 Most critically for me, it was slapstick in the wrong places, then grandiose/showy in the wrong places. It had all the pieces but some of the pieces have shaved edges because they were shoved in upside down or sideways.

[@TetraVaalBioSecurity]

11:18 = RESPECT. Garland is the fucking man. Glad to see him acknowledge Blomkamp, who in my opinion, is exactly what mainstream sci-fi needed in the worst way.

[@68marconi]

Make a sequel please.

[@chuffsteruk]

Good man.

[@writerblaster]

He also wrote The Beach

[@paellaking9007]

my favorite novel of all time still to this day

[@meanmrmustard89]

Ex Machina is brilliant!

[@RyanGiggsOBE]

watched it today, and it really is. Stylish and smart, a great directing début from Garland. I would love a Dredd 2 written and directed by him, doubt that will ever happen. But Ex Machina is a great film and I cannot wait to see what he does next

[@tubeman123100]

macphisto80, if you write a story with a similar premise to Die Hard then don't moan if people say "it's just like Die Hard but set in the future." Why do a trapped in a block plot, anyway? It's been done before. Adapt an actual 2000AD Judge Dredd story and downscale it to suit the budget of the film. It's hardly rocket science. Garland had no imagination - PERIOD.

[@enigma19833]

It's pretty fucked up that people are accusing Garland of plagiarising The Raid, when in reality it's the exact opposite - Gareth Evans, the guy who made The Raid, ripped off Garland's Dredd script (which had been around for years before production started on it). It's a proven, verifiable fact that Evans had access to the Dredd script in 2009-10, and soon afterwards he jetted off to Indonesia and started filming The Raid. Funny that. The worst thing about it is that those bullshit accusations are one of the things that killed Dredd at the Box Office, and most likely have robbed us of ever getting a sequel. In Hollywood, a movie can get punished for being stolen from, I guess.

[@m1lst3r89]

Bullshit. Where is the proof that Raid is rip off of Dredd? If anything, I'd rather call it spiritually closer to Hard Boiled (more like Hard Boiled on steroids), but if we go that route, Dredd is rip off of Die Hard. What killed Dredd at the box office is lack of proper promotion. But to be frank, Dredd has its moments but doesn't ring as pure blockbuster film.

[@mofizulhaque2481]

Stop please!...the idea fighting your way up to the boss.. Level by level in a building was Bruce lees ( game of death) anyone disagree?

[@MrNerdyBrit]

Mofizul Haque No one cares.

[@writerblaster]

Great, you're telling us that Garland doesn't know anything about Dredd's world when he's been a big fan since he was a kid. The film is about a badass trying to reach a hooker who's also a gang leader and the biggest drug dealer - a ruthless assassin. Be a macho but don't put it on Garland, women have the right to be bad in movies, and showing one is not the definite proof of lack of imagination. Also, I believe the Stallone flick's bad point was too much humour, too much everything. Good luck!

[@m1lst3r89]

Dredd film has horrible and not-so-comic Judge Anderson. Dredd from comics wouldn't let her pass. Additionally, yes, it's basically Die Hard where Dredd is trying to arrest a hoe, supposedly badass hoe I should tremble but I am not. And over grim tone killed the film. Plus, women should be kind in movies. As for Sly's film, I guess you are right. Though there was lot of humor in the comics, that somehow were better in them than in the film.

[@tubeman123100]

If anyone seriously believes 35 years of Judge Dredd material should be reduced to Dredd walking down grimy corridors in an attempt to arrest or kill a hooker, then you have NO IDEA what Judge Dredd's world is about. Forget the stuff about the budget being small, the actual plot was *unoriginal, unimaginative, lacking enough Dredd world content*. Also, the lack of any real humour made it a very grim storyline making it much less appealing to a mainstream US audience.

[@TheOurVids]

11:43 LOL Goof stuff Alex!