Yesterday we showed you the teaser trailer for producer Adi Shankar‘s unofficial bootleg animated series JUDGE DREDD: SUPERFRIEND. Today we have the full trailer courtesy of Shankar who provides a brief message explaining why this awesomeness has happened. If you’re a fan of the original comics or the most recent film, I think this is something that could please everyone. It looks ridiculous.
Shankar provided his two reasons for wanting to do this series (via Collider):
1. The “Bootleg Universe” is about viewing things through a fresh lens. I wanted to do something that played up the satirical tone of the Judge Dredd comics, an anti-establishment British comic about post apocalyptic America. Furthermore, I’m not going to bootleg my own thing and do it in live action … I’ll save that for Dirty Laundry
2. I personally love cartoons, so I wanted to mimic the look of 90’s MTV, “Ren & Stimpy,” Liquid Television, with a dash of “ReBoot” and juxtapose that with the trademark violence found in everything I have done. When I was younger all of your favorite comic book sci-fi anti-hero characters had an animated series, X-Men: The Animated Series, Ultraforce, WildC.A.T.s, Savage Dragon, and even Youngblood got close … so in that tradition this is Judge Dredd’s foray into ultraviolent kids animation!”
What do you think of the new series?
JUDGE DREDD: SUPERFRIEND premieres on October 27th 2014.
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