After the Council Judges unlock the file, Griffin has them killed. Griffin, intent on creating an army of Judges from his own DNA, uses the situation to convince the Council Judges to unlock the Janus file. In Mega-City One, Rico terrorises the city and assassinates Judges in various ways. Believing Griffin is trying to reactivate the Janus Project, Fargo urges Dredd to stop him. Dredd deduces Rico framed him for the reporter's murder, using their identical DNA. A dying Fargo reveals that Dredd and Rico are the result of the Janus Project, an experiment in genetic engineering intended to create the perfect Judge. Fargo arrives in time to save Dredd's life, but Mean Machine Angel mortally wounds him. A squad of Judges investigate the crashed ship and get to the cave, intent on killing any survivors, not rescuing them. However, the Angel Gang, a family of cannibalistic scavengers and bandits, shoots down the airship and brings Dredd and Herman back to their cave. Judge Griffin, who freed Rico to frame Dredd for the murder, becomes Chief Justice and instructs Rico to cause chaos in the city.ĭredd is taken to the Aspen penal colony by airship, where he is seated next to Herman. Dredd is sentenced to life imprisonment while Fargo embarks on the "long walk", in which a retiring Judge ventures into the wasteland "to bring law to the lawless". To save Dredd, Fargo steps down as Chief Justice and, for his last request, asks the Council to spare Dredd's life. Dredd is found guilty as his DNA is found on the bullets used to kill Hammond (a feature of the Lawgiver is imprinting the user's DNA on each bullet, a fact apparently unknown by most Judges).
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Dredd is taken to a trial before a tribunal of Council Judges including Griffin and Chief Justice Fargo, his mentor.
Vartis Hammond, a news reporter critical of Dredd, is murdered, and Dredd becomes the chief suspect. He also finds and reactivates a decommissioned ABC Warrior combat robot. Rico, a former Judge, escapes from prison and returns to Mega-City One to reclaim his uniform and " Lawgiver" gun. Dredd arrests Herman for destruction of property, and sentences him to five years' imprisonment. Herman "Fergee" Ferguson, a hacker just released from prison, is caught in the firefight and hides inside a food dispensing robot. In Mega-City One, 2139, Joseph Dredd, one of the most dedicated "Street Judges", assists first-year Judge Barbara Hershey in ending a block war. To combat crime, the traditional justice system has been replaced by a corps of Judges whose role combines those of police officer, judge, jury, and executioner. While some humans manage to survive in the barren "Cursed Earth", the majority of humanity resides in huge Mega-Cities with populations of tens of millions. A reboot film, entitled Dredd, was released in 2012.īy the 2080s, much of Earth has become an uninhabitable wasteland. The film is often considered to be one of Stallone's worst films, but its visual style, effects, music score, stunts and action sequences were praised, and the film was nominated for four Saturn Awards. Reviewers criticized the film for its script and perceived lack of originality and faith to its source material, along with Stallone's acting. Marks, with a screenplay by William Wisher Jr. The film was produced by Charles Lippincott and Beau E. In Judge Dredd, Dredd, one of the most dedicated Street Judges, has been framed for murder by his own half-brother - the psychotic Rico, who plots to take over Mega-City One with an army of superhuman clones. Following an unspecified disaster that turned Earth into a "cursed" wasteland, the survivors established a corps of Judges whose role combines that of police, judge, jury and executioner. The film takes place in the year 2080 and depicts a dystopian world.
It was filmed entirely at Shepperton Studios in the United Kingdom, and released by Buena Vista Pictures on June 30, 1995. The film co-stars Armand Assante, Diane Lane, Rob Schneider, Joan Chen, Jürgen Prochnow, and Max von Sydow. It is directed by Danny Cannon and stars Sylvester Stallone in the title role, a law enforcement officer in the crime-ridden futuristic metropolis of Mega-City One. Judge Dredd is a 1995 American science fiction action film based on the 2000 AD comics character of the same name.
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