Movies dredd judge dredd 2. Perhaps the most obvious reason dredd 2 never happened is that it bombed at the box office. Lastly the other good thing about this version of judge dredd is the uniform itself without the metal shoulderpads and the lawgiver 2 hand gun with various ammunition rounds and the firing of the weapon itself and his police bike which is used in the graphic chase scene at the beginning of the movie and that it was shot live in downtown pretoria south africa which stood in for mega city one. Per box office mojo dredds opening weekend was grim barely making 6 million. Fundamentally the process of shooting a movie like dredd is the same as star trek.
Dredd 2 or whatever the possible dredd sequel will be named is a followup to the surprisingly good but also unsurprisingly unsuccessful 2012 film starring karl urban as the titular hero judge dredd. Karl urban stars as judge dredd a law enforcer given the power of judge jury and executioner in a vast dystopic metropolis called mega city one that lies in a. The judge is in the house. Dredd had an estimated 35 million budget a pretty tight budget considering the scale of the movie all told.