Last month, Karl Urban gave Dredd fans hope of a follow-up to the 2012 reboot by stating that he and writer-producer Alex Garland are “working very, very hard to bring you Dredd 2“. However, according to producer Adi Shankar, Urban’s comments have been “blown way out of proportion” and that there’s still a lot of contractual issues to sort out before another movie has any chance of becoming a possibility…
“I’m going to tread lightly here”, Shankar told Dweebcast (via Den of Geek). “I feel like Karl made a small statement and it got blown way out of proportion by news sites. Yeah, there are conversations going on [but] there’s no f*cking script… The movie, it wasn’t a studio movie, it was an independent movie. That changes the dynamic immensely, because every country has a different distributor who bought the movie, Every one of those distributors has to sign off.”
So, what are the chances of a sequel? According to Shankar, there’s a “big question mark. Dredd has built an audience over time. I’m a fan… I’m not like a douchebag in a suit who thought they could make a lot of money doing this. If anything, the movie business is in a state of decline, not an upswing. The Mega City One universe, the 2000AD universe, it’s so rich and so deep. Yes. I would obviously love to see a Dredd 2 or a Dredd TV series. There are so many avenues to go with this.”
Originally published May 2, 2014. Updated February 28, 2020.
