Dredd Research Task

DREDD 2013

DIRECTOR and green light

The director of dredd was pete travis, he started his career making the bill for two episodes before later being known tv movies like henry VIII and then the film endgame. The PRODUCER of the film was Alex garland , he made himself known through the creation of the video game ‘enslaved’, which was a successful apocalyptic game, which was nominated for several awards.the green light was given the green light in 2009 and then went into production.

The DISTRIBUTORS

The distributors were Entertainment Film Distributors and Lionsgate, all of these are big time film distributors in the film market. Lionsgate distributors are one of the most renound in the world with huge profits. The other which was entertainment film distributors are a big producer but with less big blockbuster title its most taking film was piranha 3D

THE WRITER

The film was actually written not so surprisingly by the producer Alex garland who has wrote lots of plots to his work and movies in the past before Dredd

The BUDGET and BOX OFFICE

The film had a fair budget of 45 million which is good budget for a film, but the film only took back 35 million in box office, despite being described as a cult film.

THE ACTORS

After previously stating about the director earlier , the film had a very respectable cast which included Karl Urban (Judge Dredd) who has starred in some major blockbuster films including two of the lord of the rings trilogy, also he has starred in the Bourne supremacy furthermore he has also starred in huge sci-fi hit Star Trek , and RED . Another key casting role was played by Olivia Thirlby who starred as a psychic assistant (rookie), she has starred in films like Juno, she also performed in other huge films like No strings attached and the darkest hour.A final star in the cast was the gang leader (ma-ma) played by Lena Headey who had previously starred in films such as the Purge,Red Baron, and her most famous role as a queen in 300.

MARKETING

The film used a various selection of posters to display Dredd ,and In August 2012, the advertising site "Dredd Report" was launched, satirising the Drudge Report. The site featured a video condemning the use of Slo-Mo, and links to news about the film. There were also lots of displays of how the film revealed to critics and other rates

Critical Receptions

The film was rated highly by most critics and displayed at worst of a 59/100 and described as average mixed but great action this rating was from metacritic, all critical responses actually stated that the film had great action and average effects which could have been improved, rotten tomatoes gave the rating of 78% which Is a very positive response and for its type of film is a very strong rating, also Karl Urban performance in the film was displayed by critics as the best Dredd performance because of the ‘no ego’ approach he had to the film , his performances of showing full half face emotion was described as the best face emotion in any film.

REASONS FOR FAIL ?

A huge reason for its fail was the fact it’s a remake of a very bad film called Judge Dredd where Silvestre Stallone plays the lead role and displays is face which completely defeats the object of the mysterious character. So this contributed to the fact that in America it took a lot less than what was originally planed .Another reason for the films lack of success was the fact that the film came out with lots of other blockbuster films and they had huge marketing attributes which Dredd didn’t have .Also lots of famous critics did not approve of the way justice was displayed in the film and called it grey with no new reasons for a view.

TIE INS

The film had some special edition comics released with some special figures of the character but it really lacked with intention on tie ins, it did have a massive sell in home media as it hit amazons top 200 selling dvds.

TECHNOLOGY

The film was made into 3D , using computers from the company called DNA films , the company made mega city one in the film through using special computers, the film was actually shot in 2D before being transferred into 3D,the film was transferred into 3D in post-production.

AWARDS

·        Dredd won The Art of 3D award at the 2013 Empire Awards

·        Was nominated for  Best British Film

·        And Best british sci fi

PERSONAL OPINION

I felt the film had a good line of action and I enjoyed the mystery of the character Dredd and I think the way the film panned out was very amusing, im a huge fan of post-apocalyptic films so the setting of the film was good, but actually I wouldn’t say I liked the film as I thought it was partially empty and very closed in the filming. I also thought that the special effects in the film were seriously bad and the way people died in the film was poor.