{"id":5544,"date":"2025-07-17T20:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T20:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/5544\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T20:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T20:56:08","slug":"taika-waititi-working-on-new-judge-dredd-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/5544\/","title":{"rendered":"Taika Waititi Working On New &#8216;Judge Dredd&#8217; Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHere is a hot package heating up the market from two high-profile talents and an infamous crime stopper. Sources have confirmed to Deadline <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/taika-waititi\/\" id=\"auto-tag_taika-waititi\" data-tag=\"taika-waititi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Taika Waititi<\/a> is attached to direct a new <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/judge-dredd\/\" id=\"auto-tag_judge-dredd\" data-tag=\"judge-dredd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Judge Dredd<\/a> movie from a script by <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/drew-pearce\/\" id=\"auto-tag_drew-pearce\" data-tag=\"drew-pearce\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Drew Pearce<\/a>. Insiders the package just went to market and no offers are out yet but given all the parties involved should certainly get some looks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tChris Kingsley, Jason Kingsley and Ben Smith of Rebellion Developments, Roy Lee of Vertigo Entertainment, Jeremy Platt, Natalie Viscuso and Pearce are among the producers involved in the package.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tCreated by John Wagner and artist Carlos Ezquerra, Dredd is a police officer stationed in the metropolis of Mega-City One, where officers are empowered to be judge, jury, and executioner. Hollywood has adapted the property multiple times including a film starring Sylvester Stallone as well as a recent version starring Karl Urban.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDetails behind this project are unknown at this time other then it featuring some of more lighter comedic touches to the property that Waititi films are known for.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMore to come as this story unfolds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here is a hot package heating up the market from two high-profile talents and an infamous crime stopper.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3225,96,59,3226,3227,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-5544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-drew-pearce","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-judge-dredd","tag-taika-waititi","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}