Alex Garland says if a new Dredd film happens, "I can't think it's happening with me and the people who made the last one".
NewsOne of those news stories this where you know how it's going to end, sadly. Alex Garland's excellent movie,Ex Machina, is shortly to get its US release, and he's done promotional work for the picture at the SXSW Festival. Inevitably, the subject of Dreddand Dredd 2came up.
Bottom line: the sequel's still not happening.
Chatting to Collider, Garland - who wrote and produced the Dreddfilm - said that the "Dreddthing is a surprise."
"It’s a really complicated set of emotions. I have a lot of regret about how things worked out with Dredd, but it’s very gratifying. The regret it - you do a kind of transaction, particularly with the creators of it, which is that we want to do this thing and honour what you did, and try to do it properly, and then the film will reward that trust."
Yet as we all know, the reward - at least the initial box office reward - never really came. "The story of Dreddis that of a failed movie," Garland added. "Both times, for fuck's sake. To be party to that, when that was exactly the intetion - to not do that - is kind of difficult."
Garland also admitted that he felt "a sense of responsibility" to all the people who spent money on a DVD to try and get the profile of the film up, and to persaude backers to invest in a sequel. But, if you're one of the many - us included - hunting for a Dredd 2, "I don't think it's happening with me and the people who made the last one".
In brighter news (and crikey, we need some after that), Ex Machina arrives on DVD and Blu-ray soon. And it is excellent.
