Dredd 3D (2012) Research

Dredd 3D (2012) Research

 

Director – Pete Travis (Who also directed Vantage Point (2008)

Producer – Alex Garland (Who was also the executive producer of Never Let Me Go (2010) and 28 Weeks Later (2007)

Green Light – Together with DNA Films, the movie production company behind such films as Danny Boyle's Sunshine and 28 Weeks Later, Judge Dredd went into production in 2009.

Script Writer – Alex Garland

Film Budget - $45 Million

Box Office Gross - $41 Million

Casting -

-          Karl Urban – Judge Dredd

-          Olivia Thirlby – Judge Anderson

-          Lena Headey – Ma-Ma

-          Wood Harris – Kay

-          Warrick Grier – Caleb

-          Rakie Ayola – Chief Judge

-          Langley Kirkwood- Judge Lex

-          Edwin Perry – Judge Alvarez

-          Karl Thaning – Judge Chan

-          Michele Levin – Judge Kaplan

Marketing -  

A 60 second trailer called ‘Addicted’ was created as a small insight to what the film has to offer.          

    

Additionally, an exclusive trailer has been released which shows more details into the characters and the plot of the film.

Lastly, a film poster was created to spread the message that the infamous Judge Dredd has returned to the big screen. This poster was displayed at cinemas and theatres that screened the film

 

Critical Reception – The film gained a 78% approval rating from 146 critics, with an average rating of 6.5 out of 10, on the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, and Metacritic provides a score of 59 out of 100 which indicates "mixed or average" reviews—18 of the sampled critics gave the film a positive review, 7 mixed, and the remaining 4 negative.

Awards –

Empire Awards, UK (2013)

 

Won	Best 3D film
Nominated	Best science-fiction/fantasy Best British film

 

 

Golden Trailer Awards (2013)

 

Won	Best Thriller TV Spot Lionsgate FishBowl
Nominated	Best Action TV Spot Lionsgate FishBowl   Best Graphics in a TV Spot Lionsgate Seismic Productions   Best Music TV Spot Lionsgate FishBowl   Most Original TV Spot Lionsgate AV Squad, The   Best Action Poster Lionsgate Ignition Creative   Most Original Poster Lionsgate Ignition Creative

 

IGN Summer Movie Awards (2012)

 

Nominated

Best comic book adaptation movie

 

Reasons for lack of success:

-          18 rated certification

-          Not a four quadrant film

-          Not popular actors/actresses

-          Not ‘British’ enough

-          Excessive violence

-          Few references to the storyline

-          Lack of interest in the character or the storyline

-          Lack of filming destinations

Technology

3D cameras - RED MX, SI2K and Phantom Flex high-speed cameras. Some 2D elements were converted to 3D in post-production.

Cape Town Film Studios created Mega-City One and its high rise towers. A helicopter camera was used to achieve aerial shots such as when the van rolls over after a hot pursuit at the beginning of the film. New rigs had been developed in order to obtain close-ups of the characters.

Tie-ins

Dredd was released on DVD, Blu-ray and Digital Download on 8 January 2013 in North America, and 14 January in the UK. The Blu-ray edition contains the 2D and 3D versions of the film and a digital copy. The DVD and Blu-ray editions contain seven featurettes: "Mega-City Masters: 35 Years of Judge Dredd", "Day of Chaos: The Visual Effects of Dredd 3D", "Dredd", "Dredd's Gear", "The 3rd Dimension", "Welcome to Peachtrees", and a "Dredd Motion Comic Prequel" narrated by Karl Urban.

Also, at the London Film and Comic Con in July 2012, Garland said that a North American gross of over $50 million for Dredd would make sequels possible and that he had plans for a trilogy of films. A second film would focus on the origins of Dredd and Mega-City One, and a third would introduce Dredd's nemeses, the undead Judge Death and his Dark Judges. In August 2012, Garland said that a Judge Dredd television series would be a positive future step for the series.

 

Personal Opinion

I personally did not enjoy the film because the film just primarily contained excessive violence that seemed to be pointless and aimless. Due to large amount of violence, there is very little details to the actual plot. It is only at the beginning when the audience can understand the plot, but then after that there is just killing after killing after killing.

However, I did find the editing to create the SLO-MO effects to show a fraction of beauty in a corrupt metropolis very interesting. I liked how the producer managed to create an element of the film that portrays gracefulness when the surroundings contain nothing but violence and crime.  

I personally did not think that the concept of bringing science-fiction into real life issues such as the drug heist proved effective. To me, it did not feel right to have an important character like Dredd become enter a blog of flats and defeat the antagonist. Also the finished product bears little relationship to the name being traded off.