Judge Dredd Creative Team Announces New TV Series Just as a Real Life Version Sits in the White House
There’s dread in the air and that’s because Donald Trump has fired FBI Director James Comey, after Comey asked for more funds to further investigate Trump’s ties to Russia. He previously relieved acting Attorney General Sally Q. Yates from her post after she refused to defend his executive order banning people from certain Muslim country to come to the US.
With real life feeling more like fiction everyday, it’s ironic that the team behind the British comic character Judge Dredd is working on a new TV series. According to Entertainment Weekly, IM Global and indie U.K. games developer/publisher Rebellion are developing a live-action TV show called Judge Dredd: Mega City One. It will supposedly center on a team of Judges who will act as judge, jury and executioner in a futuristic America.
via Entertainment Weekly
Producers include IM Global Television president Mark Stern (Battlestar Galactica, Helix, and Defiance), IM Global Television CEO Stuart Ford (who produced the 2012 Dredd film, and Jason and Chris Kingsley (who co-own Rebellion and also produced the 2012 flick).
“We’re very excited to be beginning the journey to get more of Judge Dredd’s Mega-City One on the television screen,” Jason and Chris Kingsley said. “Thanks to the legions of fans who have kept up pressure on social media, and a lot of background work and enthusiasm, we aim to make a big budget production that will satisfy both our vast comics audience and the even greater general screen-watching public.”
The project is still trying to find a home so take this news with a grain of salt. Thoughts?
(via Polygon, image: screencap)
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