Dredd

This article is about the 2012 film. For other uses, see Dredd (disambiguation).

Dredd
A futuristic police officer in armour and a helmet that covers all but his mouth stands on the corner of a building roof with a gun in his hand as large tower blocks burn behind him. Above the man reads a tagline "Judgment Is Coming".
Theatrical release poster
Directed byPete Travis[a]
Screenplay byAlex Garland
Based on
Judge Dredd
by
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyAnthony Dod Mantle
Edited byMark Eckersley
Music byPaul Leonard-Morgan
Production
companies
Distributed by
Release dates
  • 11 July 2012 (2012-07-11) (San Diego Comic-Con)
  • 7 September 2012 (2012-09-07) (United Kingdom)
  • 28 September 2012 (2012-09-28) (South Africa)
Running time
95 minutes[3]
Countries
  • United Kingdom
  • South Africa[4]
LanguageEnglish
Budget$30–45 million[5][6]
Box office$41.5 million[7]

Dredd[b] is a 2012 science fiction action film directed by Pete Travis and written and produced by Alex Garland. It is based on the 2000 AD comic strip Judge Dredd and its eponymous character created by John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra. Karl Urban stars as Judge Dredd, a law enforcer given the power of judge, jury and executioner in a vast, dystopic metropolis called Mega-City One that lies in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Dredd and his rookie partner, Judge Anderson (Olivia Thirlby), are forced to bring order to a 200-storey high-rise block of apartments and deal with its resident drug lord, Ma-Ma (Lena Headey).

Garland began writing the script in 2006, although the development of a new Judge Dredd film adaptation, unrelated to the 1995 film Judge Dredd, was not announced until December 2008. Produced by British studio DNA Films, Dredd began principal photography, using 3D cameras throughout, in November 2010. Filming took place on practical sets and locations in Cape Town and Johannesburg.

Dredd was released on 7 September 2012 in the United Kingdom and on 21 September worldwide. Critics were generally positive about the film's visual effects, casting and action sequences, while criticism focused on excessive violence as well as a perceived lack of the satirical elements that are found in the source comic. Despite the positive critical response, the film earned just over $41 million at the box office on an estimated budget of $30–45 million. The theatrical gross made a sequel unlikely, but home media sales and fan efforts endorsed by 2000 AD's publisher Rebellion Developments have maintained the possibility of a second film.

  1. ^ Sharf, Zack (11 October 2019). "Alex Garland Will Never Direct Another 'Dredd' Movie: 'It Was a Crude Experience'". IndieWire. Archived from the original on 8 December 2023. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
  2. ^ a b "Dredd". Box Office Mojo.
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  4. ^ Production 2012, p. 31.
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