Director Pete Travis (Vantage Point) recently spoke out about the controversy surrounding his upcoming movie Dredd, explaining that all the rumours regarding bitching, arguing, and infighting, in the editing suite were, in fact, “bollocks.”
Moving on a little further to explain that “it was all bollocks really”, it appears as there was never any really heated arguments between Travis and scribe Alex Garland (28 Days Later), as Travis says that “Alex’s interpretation of Dredd’s world was the inspiration for me to get involved.”
Producer Andrew Macdonald (Trainspotting) has also weighed in, and told Empire Magazine that despite reports to the contrary, Travis was never fired, or kicked out of the editing suite, and he has “no idea where that came from”, as “everything was built around the script and the character”, and they “stand by the unusual collaboration” which saw the writer and director working unusually close together, as “everything was built around the script and character.”
With rumours of a possible trilogy afoot, Garland has said that he’d love to take Judge Dredd out of Mega City One in the future, and out into The Cursed Earth, although Dredd would need to first succeed at the Box Office, when it’s released in 3D, on Spetember 7th in the UK, and on September 21st in the US.
Matt Wheeldon.
Source: Empire.
