About this episode
The episode discusses the 2012 film DREDD, exploring its context, character history, and adaptation from comic to screen.
It’s Die Hard in a dystopia! For our penultimate episode, this week we’re hopping on our lawmasters and cruising into Mega City One, as we discuss the 2012 version of DREDD aka DREDD 3-D! In the futuristic crime-ridden dystopia of Mega City One, roving patrols of ‘Judges’ are permitted to dispense on-the-spot justice with the power of judge, jury and executioner. In this context, the hard-bitten, highly experienced Judge Dredd (Karl Urban) is reluctantly partnered with rookie candidate Judge Anderson (Olivia Thirlby), who has psychic abilities due to a genetic mutation. In the process of investigating a triple homicide in the towering high-rise building known as Peach Trees, the two Judges incur the wrath of the culprit – ferocious and powerful local gangster MaMa (Lena Headey) – who seals off the building and declares war on the pair of them, meaning that the two vastly outnumbered Judges must use all their skills and guile to survive an onslaught of attacks from the building’s seemingly infinite number of marauding criminals. The boys put this awesome movie in its full context by discussing the entire history of the Dredd character and it’s life across popular culture…
People in this episode
Hosts: Philip Gawthorne, Liam Billingham
Topics covered
- DREDD movie
- Judge Dredd character
- dystopian future
- film adaptation
- action cinema
- comic book history
Keywords
- DREDD
- Judge Dredd
- Mega City One
- dystopia
- action film
- comic adaptation
- Karl Urban
- Olivia Thirlby
- Lena Headey
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: DREDD, DREDD 3-D, Judge Dredd, Dredd (1995)
Places: Mega City One, Peach Trees
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