Overview

• Taika Waititi is attached to direct a new Judge Dredd film, marking the character’s first major screen outing in over a decade.
• Drew Pearce will write the screenplay, drawing on his experience with action franchises such as Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation and Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw.
• Producers behind the project include Rebellion Developments’ Chris Kingsley, Jason Kingsley and Ben Smith alongside Roy Lee of Vertigo Entertainment, Jeremy Platt and Natalie Viscuso.
• The adaptation is designed to hew more closely to John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra’s original comics and to meld dystopian worldbuilding with Waititi’s lighter humor.
• No release window has been announced and studios have yet to submit formal offers as the market package continues to circulate.