Karl Urban Says Conversations Are Happening About a Dredd TV Series

 

During an appearance at the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo, Urban teased that conversations are happening about bringing Dredd back, possibly as a streaming series.  Urban has pushed hard for a Dredd sequel, encouraging fan petitions and offering periodic updates to his followers. Then a few days ago at Calgary, he let slip that he’d had conversations about possibly bringing Dredd back.

This is not a confirmation that Dredd will ever return, in any form. In fact, this isn’t even the first time Urban has trotted out this line. Back in 2014 Urban told fans at a Star Trek convention that “conversations are taking place between the studio, the director, and writer Alex Garland” — and as you may have noticed, two years later we still don’t seem to be much closer to a Dredd sequel than we were then.

The first Dredd totally bombed, in the words of its producer Adi Shankar. It cost $50 million to make and many millions more to market, but ultimately grossed just $30 million. As great as the movie is (and it is a lot of fun) it’s really no wonder the studio hasn’t been clamoring to make a sequel. But niche properties with small but passionate fanbases have been well served by Netflix and Amazon — heck, it’s hard to imagine something like the wonderfully weird Sense8 existing any other way. It’s way too early to celebrate the return of Dredd, but conversations with streaming services could be an encouraging step in the right direction.