Script review of JUDGE DREDD 3D says it's DIE HARD mixed with BLADE RUNNER!

'Imagine Die Hard taking place within the world of Blade Runner; that€™s the Judge Dredd script offered by Alex Garland'
...says an anonymous script report, sent to The Playlist. Though from the sounds of things, the June 24th dated script sounds like the closer cousin of Escape From New York and 16 Blocks. Three months ago, Pete Travis (director of the worst film I saw in 2008 - the multi-focal point thriller Vantage Point) was hired to direct the $45 million budgeted 3D reboot at DNA Films, Reliance Big Entertainment and IM Global. Tentatively titled Judge Dredd 3D, the movie will shoot in South Africa in the fall with the intention of it being closer to it's gritty, edgier roots - over the ludicrous, mid 90's Sylvester Stallone vehicle - which if you hadn't guessed with the talent involved - will mean a Brit feeling for this (actors, tone, etc). Although I have huge reservations about Travis - he will be working from a script by a top tier sci-fi writer in Garland (28 Days Later, Sunshine). Plot details, which might be construed as spoilerish for those sensitive to such things; MEGA CITY ONE is plagued by a new drug, SLO-MO, it slow€™s everything down and producers visually stunning images, with time that moves at one percent normal.
Dredd has a rookie shadowing him for the night (CASSANDRA ANDERSON), she has some special abilities that the CHIEF JUDGE thinks could be very useful, however her JUDGE APTITUDE test scored just put her below a pass. It€™s up to DREDD to see if she has what it takes to be a Judge and one night to do so. The pair investigate a multiple homicide in PEACH TREE BLOCK. A place ran and controlled by the MA-MA CLANG. After busting one of Ma-Ma€™s henchmen, Ma-Ma takes control and locks the entire place down, she seals the place with concrete shutters -- and no way out. Ma-Ma also tell€™s everyone within the block to KILL THE JUDGES, or their families will suffer. Ma-Ma is the ultimate force in Peach Trees, more than the law, so everyone complies. Dredd and Anderson have to survive, holding onto their prisoner and try and escape the block. They begin on the ground floor and work their way up the 200 or so floors.
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