> When Dredd fires his lawgiver the perps can shoot several feet up into
> the air - a bit like what they did in Minority Report but even more
> exaggerated than that. For example, if Dredd fires a hi-ex round, the
> actors can be on wires on a greenscreen and pulled up. The movement
> can be composited onto actual set footage to create huge 'bullet
> impact' reaction shots. Dredd can shoot a perp and he's forced back
> through an entire room or other location. That would be cool. Dredd
> shoots at a car and the car is forced hundreds of feet into the sky.

> For a new Dredd film to work it will have to be a bit over-the-top
> action-wise. Really spectacular to compete with all the other sci-fi
> action films out there. You need to show Dredd is super tough and his
> lawgiver is the toughest handgun ever created.

> Another element would be thousands of cits in many exterior shots of
> the city. Dredd could race along a megway and we see thousands of cits
> walking by. Not hundreds, but thousands. A mass of humanity. If you
> could CGI or motion-capture the citizens you could have lots of
> sweeping camera angles throughout the city and really get the feeling
> it's a city of 400 million potential perps.

> For a Dredd film to work it has to be really epic, spectacular - you
> have to believe this is an insane nightmare world of 400 million
> people and the Judges are the only people to prevent total anarchy.:)

> scojomoo