In the Dredd comics, tradition dictates that Dredd does not take off his helmet, thus his face has mostly only fleetingly appeared in full, but the producers obviously would not allow an expensive performer, such as Sylvester Stallone, to never show his face clearly.
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The "flying bike" scenes features three seconds where Dredd is a computer generated image. This is the part where he swoops low over a crowd of punks.
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The warden at the Aspen prison facility is called Miller. In Mel Brook's Star Wars spoof Spaceballs (1987) the warden of the Spaceballs prison which Princess Vespa and Dot Matrix have been imprisoned in is called Warden Miller. Sylvester Stallone whom plays Judge Dredd had auditioned for Han Solo in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), but lost out to Harrison Ford.
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Danny Cannon had a poster for a Judge Dredd film that he created himself published in Prog 534 of 2000 A.D. dated August 8, 1987. The poster featured Harrison Ford as Judge Dredd, Daryl Hannah as Judge Anderson, and Christopher Walken as an additional co-star. Ridley Scott was listed as the director.
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RoboCop (1987) borrowed so much from the Judge Dredd comics that it delayed this production for years. It was so successful and similar that the producers had to wait before going ahead with this movie.
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In the comics, the judges always wear their armored shoulder pads and gloves on duty, in this film when they aren't on the streets they wear an indoor uniform without armor or gloves. The higher ranking judges wear black and gold shoulder rank devices, these were created for this film and aren't seen in the comics.
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