Okay, full disclosure: I'd love to see The Cold Deck adapted into a movie because, in my most unrealistic moments, I like to imagine the Dredd movie universe expanding, Marvel-style, to encompass a solo Mega City Undercover movie and The Simping Detective, eventually building up to the recent, huge, amazing Trifecta crossover that this storyline sets up. Obviously that's never going to happen - and yet we're getting multiple Spider-Man spin-off movies, the ginks - but a boy can dream, can't he? The Cold Deck instead focuses on Mega City-One in a state of chaos. Which was caused by the aptly-titled Day of Chaos, where most of the city (and its occupants) are destroyed by the Dark Judges, amongst other things. Obviously that storyline wouldn't work in the setting of a Dredd movie, but it could be a good starting point - maybe have Mega-City One decimated by a dirty bomb or something - which limits the locations again, and has Dredd in a slightly more sympathetic role, trying to pick up the pieces after a huge disaster and loss of life, trying to force order on a city even more resistant to it than in the first film.