Taika Waititi to the director of the judge Dredd Movie

Judge Dredd. Taika Waititi.

These two names have studio heads and managers who are one of the hottest packages of the year on the Hollywood marketplace this week.

Waititi, the Thor: Ragnarok And Yeah The filmmaker is attached to lead a new feature film on Dredd, the popular and violent British comic character.

Drew Pearce, the writer, who is known for his resume filled with action film, thanks to titles like Case Kerl And Mission: impossible – villain nationis attached to write the script.

The producers include the Dredd rights owners Chris Kingsley, Jason Kingsley and Ben Smith from Rebellion Developments, Roy Lee von Vertigo Entertainment, Jeremy Platt, Natalie Viscuso and Pearce.

Sources say that Pearce and Waititi have both grew up with the books and are friends who have tried to find a project that they can work together for years.

Dredd was founded in the late 1970s by the writer John Wagner and the artist Carlos Ezquerra. Dredd debuted on the pages of the weekly British anthology 2000 AD. He is a policeman in the dark future metropolis of Mega-City One, part of a law enforcement corps that authorized civil servants as a judge, jury and executioner. The character and its stories were a satire on a judicial system that was brought to the utmost. Dredd proved to be extremely popular and created several other comic and comics, video and board games, books and even stamps in Great Britain. It is said that over 100,000,000 comics and graphic novels have been sold.

The figure received the high-glosshollywood treatment in 1995 with an adaptation of big budget with Sylvester Stallone. It was badly received. The reception for DreddAn adaptation of 2012 with Karl Urban with a script by Alex Garland, the writer behind it 28 days laterwho also wrote and managed Civil war.

The loogery is kept under the sights, but the pitch should be inspired more by the comics than from the previous screen editions and bend into the world structure and dark humor. It should also be a funny sci-fi blockbuster who still speaks for this moment in culture. The wish is to start the film a DREDD universe that could be examined with additional films and shows on various platforms.