Judge Dredd (1995)

Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1995
Running Times: 96 mins
Length: 2598 metres
Format: Technicolor 35mm Panavision (anamorphic)
Ratio: 2.35:1
Sound: Dolby Digital 8 Channel SDDS

(Full Credits)

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Cinergi / Hollywood Pictures
Executive Producers: Andrew G. Vajna, Edward R. Pressman
Producers: Charles M. Lippencott, Beau E. L. Marks

SCRIPT
Script: William Wisher, Steven E. de Souza
Story: Michael De Luca, William Wisher
Characters: John Wagner, Carlos Ezquerra

DIRECTION
Director: Danny Cannon
2nd Unit Director: Beau Marks

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Adrian Biddle

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editors: Jeremy Gibbs, Harry Keramidas, Alex Mackie

MUSIC
Music: Alan Silvestri

SOUND
Sound Designer: Leslie Shatz
Sound Mixer: Chris Munro

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up Supervisor / Make Up: Nick Dudman
Make Up: Melissa Lackersteen, Jeni Walker
Hair: Paul Abascal, Colin Jamison

SPECIAL MAKE UP EFFECTS
Mean Machine Make Up: Chris Cunningham

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Supervisor: Joss Williams

VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects: Manex Visual Effects; Mass.Illusions LLC
Visual Effects Supervisors: Joel Hynek, John Nelson

DIGITAL EFFECTS
Digital Effects: Digital Fauxtography
Digital Effects Supervisors: Diana Walczak, Jeffrey Kleiser, Serge Sretschinsky

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Nigel Phelps
Supervising Art Director: Leslie Tomkins
Art Directors: Don Dossett, Kevin Phipps

LOCATIONS
Locations: Oraefi, Iceland
Studio: Shepperton Studios, Shepperton, Surrey, UK
Location Manager: Simon McNair Scott

STUNTS
Stunt Co-Ordinator: Marc Boyle
Stunts: Stuart Stark, Ignacio Carreno, Nick Powell, Andy Smart, Del Baker, Derek Lea, Guy List, Ian Jay, Luisa Silvestre, Neil Finnighan, Nick Gillard, Nigel Fan, Ray De-Haan, Therese Donnelly, Vincent Keane

CASTING
Casting: Jackie Burch
UK Casting: Lucy Boulting

CAST
Sylvester Stallone (Judge Dredd)
Diane Lane (Judge Hershey)
Armand Assante (Rico)
Rob Schneider (Herman 'Fergie' Ferguson)
Max von Sydow (Chief Justice Fargo)
Jurgen Prochnow (Judge Griffin)
Joanna Miles (McGruder)
Joan Chen (Ilsa)
Balthazar Getty (Olmeyer)
Maurice Roëves (Warden Miller)
Ian Dury (Geiger)
Christopher Adamson (Mean Machine)
Ewen Bremner (Junior Angel)
Peter Marinker (Judge Esposito)
Angus MacInnes (Judge Silver)
Louise Delamere (locker Judge)
Phil Smeeton (Fink Angel)
Steve Toussaint (Hunter Squad leader)
Bradley Lavelle (chief Judge hunter)
Mark Morghan (Judge killed by robot)

PLOT SUMMARY

In the near future metropolis of Megacity One, the law is upheld by the harsh and incorruptible Judges, combination police, jury and executioners. The greatest of all the Judges, Dredd, is falsely convicted of murder and exiled to the wastelands outside the city. With the help of another prisoner, Dredd sets out to clear his name and bring the real villains to book.

A terrible adaptation of the long-running and much-loved comic strip anti-hero that abandons much of what made the comic work so well and replaced it with the standard Hollywood action movie clichés. Stallone is terrible in the title role while much better actors like Jurgen Prochnow and Max von Sydow simply look embarrassed. Badly written, flatly directed and with uninspired design Judge Dredd is simply terrible in every respect.

Belgium
Theatrical Distributor: RCV Film Distribution

France
Laserdisc Distributor: L'Écran Laser

Germany
Theatrical Distributor: Tobis Filmkunst
Video Distributor: VCL Communications GmbH
DVD Distributor: Constantin Video (13268)

Luxembourg
Theatrical Distributor: RCV Film Distribution

Netherlands
Theatrical Distributor: RCV Film Distribution

Portugal
Theatrical Distributor: Lusomundo

Spain
Theatrical Distributor: Lauren Film

UK
Theatrical Distributor: Pathé
DVD Distributor: Pathé Distribution

USA
Theatrical Distributor: Buena Vista Pictures
Laserdisc Distributor: Hollywood Pictures (5261 AS)
DVD Distributor: Hollywood Pictures Home Video (14899)

Finland
Rating: K-16

Germany
Rating: 16

Norway
Rating: 15

Portugal
Rating: M/12

Singapore
Rating: PG

Spain
Rating: 18

Sweden
Rating: 15

UK
Rating: cut by 4 seconds

USA
Rating: R (for continuous violent action)

1995
Sci-Fi Universe Magazine, USA
Universe Reader's Choice Award Best Director for a Genre Motion Picture (Danny Cannon) - winner

1996
Razzie Awards, USA
Worst Actor (Sylvester Stallone) - nominated (also for his performance in Assassins (1995))

1995
June
30: USA - theatrical release

July
21: UK - theatrical release

August
11: Portugal - theatrical release
17: Australia - theatrical release
18: Denmark - theatrical release
23: France - theatrical release
24: Germany - theatrical release
29: Spain - theatrical release

September
29: Sweden - theatrical release

October
20: Poland - theatrical release

December
5: USA - laserdisc release (Hollywood Pictures (5261 AS))

1996
March
8: Finland - theatrical release

September
Day Unknown: France - laserdisc release (L'Écran Laser)

December
21: UK - television broadcast (on Sky Movies)

1998
August
18: USA - DVD release (Hollywood Pictures Home Video (14899))

September
10: UK - television broadcast (on BBC1)

1999
October
1: Germany - DVD release (Constantin Video (13268))

2000
January
10: UK - television broadcast (on BBC1)

2001
June
9: UK - television broadcast (on BBC1)

In the future, one man is the law.

Juez Dredd - Spanish title
El juez - Venezuelan title
Judge Dredd - tuomari - Finnish title
Dredd bíró - Hungarian title
Dredd - La legge sono io - Italian title
Sedzia Dredd - Polish title
A Lei de Dredd - Portugese title

SEQUEL
Judge Dredd (1998)

MAGAZINES

Empire September 1995 p.36 (UK)
illustrated review

Premiere September 1995 p.20 (France)
review (by Christian Jauberty)

SFX no.1 p.9 (UK)
review

Studio September 1995 p.15 (France)
review (by Denis Parent)

NEWSPAPERS

O Independente, Vida 11 August 1995 (Portugal)
review (by Rui Brazuna)

Svenska Dagbladet 29 September 1995 (Sweden)
review (Pojkfilm som danar av effekter by Anna Angström)

KEYWORDS

comic into film; the future; police; genetics; human duplication; clones; robots; statue of liberty

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009