Judge Dredd - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

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[kylie]

To bring Hammerstein to life, they were going to use a man in a suit, but Danny Cannon insisted they build it for real. It's powered by hydraulics and controlled by five remote operators.

[dustin]

Armand Assante played Rico with a Sylvester Stallone-like speech pattern to show how alike Rico and Dredd are.

[edgar]

The crew built a replica of Lady Liberty's head twenty percent bigger than the real thing.

[maureen]

There were over 70 clones on set. Some were dummies and others were stuntmen in prosthetics. The actors in the suits had to shave off all their body hair before the costumes could be glued on.

[scarlett]

A stuntwoman was used for the head-butt in the fight scene between Hayden and Hershey, but Diane Lane and Joan Chen did the rest of it themselves.

[richard]

In the comics Judge Hilda Margaret McGruder (Evelyn McGruder in the film) and Judge Thomas Silver (Gerald Silver in the film and played by a white actor, in the comics he was black) both had extensive histories and served as Chief Judge, in the film they are minor characters who only serve as Council members and end up being killed. Also in the comics there was never a Judge Carlos Esposito on the Council. He is presumably a tribute to Judge Dredd co-creator Carlos Ezquerra.

[kristen]

Renny Harlin and Richard Donner were the first choices for director.

[terry]

The "Lawmaster" bikes were built from scratch. They were so powerful, only stuntmen could drive them. The actors were given safer, low-powered "moped" versions to ride.

[caroline]

Sylvester Stallone and Armand Assante, who play brothers, both wear contact lenses in this film to give them blue eyes. Yet both have brown eyes in real life. That could be because their characters' DNA comes from Judge Fargo who is played by blue-eyed actor Max von Sydow.

[brent]

Jürgen Prochnow stars alongside Sylvester Stallone in this movie. Prochnow also provided his voice to dub Stallone five times in german versions of particular movies, like Creed 2, to mention the latest.

[tammy]

Prior to production, Danny Cannon proclaimed that this would be "the Ben-Hur (1959) of comic book movies", but unfortunately Sylvester Stallone had different plans, and Cannon's vision was unfortunately compromised.

[darrell]

Rob Schneider got banged up while shooting. On his first day, he fell down a flight of stairs.

[mishanob]

Limbo 1999

Unconventional narrative about the interactions amongst a group of people in a small town in Alaska each of whom has guards a secret.

Limbo features atmospheric, psychological, serious, sincere and clever style.

[brent]

Danny Cannon wanted actors "of international importance" so that the movie would feel timeless.

[tammy]

Limbo 1999

Unconventional narrative about the interactions amongst a group of people in a small town in Alaska each of whom has guards a secret.

Limbo features atmospheric, psychological, serious, sincere and clever style.

[melinda]

In the novelization and the comic book adaptation of the film, Fergie dies, when he using his hacking skills to save Dredd and Hershey from the ABC Robot and Dredd apologizes to Fergie for misjudging him. In the film, after Fergie hacks into the ABC Robot and saves Hershey, Fergie lives and is seen being loaded into an ambulance and requests that they pull over by an ATM at the end of the movie.

[wesley]

The Welsh rock group Manic Street Preachers were supposed to compose the title song for the film, but after the disappearance of one of their members, they chose not to go on with the production and the project was abandoned. In 2003 they finally released the song, titled "Judge Yr'self".

[charlie]

In addition to sprinkling various stores with crew names in Mega City, they also honored writer Steven E. De Souza with a character. The drunk guy with the hovering Lamborghini in the beginning is named Mr. Souza.

[ava]

From the beginning the film was intended to receive a PG-13 rating. Due to excessive violence the MPAA refused to downgrade the initial R rating despite repeated appeals by the studio and Sylvester Stallone. Mostly because of schedule constraints the film could not be re-cut and was released with an R rating.