Scripts are ready for Dredd TV series! Will Urban and Stallone return?

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

We have been tracking the development of a Judge Dredd television series called Judge Dredd: Mega-City One for three years now, and it's been two years since we caught word that the pilot script was finished. We've just been waiting to hear when this thing is going to get rolling. There still isn't a start date in place, but in a new interview Jason Kingsley – CEO of Rebellion, which holds the rights to the Judge Dredd property – sounded hopeful about it.

While appearing on the V2A Emergency Broadcast System YouTube channel, Kingsley said, 

I want there to be a sequel [to 2012 movie DREDD]. We've got the rights back so we can do it, we've just got to get rid of this virus thing that's going on at the moment, and then hopefully things can kick off in all sorts of different areas of making film and TV, it's just, it's all very messed up at the moment for everybody. A lot of work has been done on all sorts of different scripts actually. So Mega-City One the TV show. Basically, we can't go into production because of the [situation] and we've got scripts and everything is ready to go but the problem is, because of the [situation] and everybody's funding changes and everybody's shifting around."

DREDD star Karl Urban has been in discussions with Rebellion about reprising the role of Judge Dredd if the Mega City One scripts do the character justice. Kingsley couldn't confirm that Urban or his DREDD co-star Olivia Thirlby would return for the show, but he did express interest in getting Sylvester Stallone, who starred in the less-popular 1995 film JUDGE DREDD, to make an appearance: 

Well if we can get people back, you know, we even joked that it would be quite fun to get Stallone back."

A Dredd series starring Urban, with Stallone showing up at some point, sounds like great entertainment to me. I really hope this will be able to get off the ground soon.

Rob Williams, who has written Judge Dredd comic books, was hired as the creative lead on Mega-City One and has worked with writers to plot out a couple seasons of the show. It has been said that the series would "combine the macabre with the insane and the light-hearted."