DREDD (2012): The Best Film You Probably Haven't Seen

DREDD (2012): The Best Film You Probably Haven't Seen

The Every Movie Ever! Podcast · 2025-05-25

Ben and Rob feel “DREDD”, the 2013 Pete Travis directed adaptation of 2000AD’s megastar character Judge Dredd, starring Karl Urban, Lena Headey and Olivia Thirlby. Written by Alex Garland (director of ‘Ex Machina’, ‘Civil War’, ‘Warfare’), ‘DREDD’ struggled to make back its budget, despite good reviews and praise for its accuracy to the source material.

But why did ‘DREDD’ flop so hard at the box office? Was it the studio’s awful need for this to be ‘DREDD 3D’? The general public not knowing who the hell Judge Dredd is? Or was it due to a certain secret director having to save the project from Pete Travis, the credited leader of the adaptation?

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