Judge Dredd (1995) on Netflix
In a crime-ridden Mega-City One, Judge Joseph Dredd enforces the law as police, jury and executioner. When a reporter is murdered, evidence points to Dredd, and he must stand trial.
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Plot summary
Earth is a wasteland called the Cursed Earth, and survivors crowd into Mega-Cities plagued by crime. The Judges act as police, jury and executioner. Joseph Dredd is a strict Street Judge. He helps rookie Judge Hershey stop a block war and catches Fergie, a hacker hiding in a city robot, sentencing him to five more years. Hershey questions his rigid ways. Rico, a Judge imprisoned at the Aspen Penal Colony, escapes and returns to Mega-City One, retrieving his uniform and gun and reactivating a decommissioned combat robot. A reporter, Vartis Hammond, is killed. Evidence points to Dredd. He stands trial before the Council of Judges, including Chief Justice Fargo and Judge Griffin, with Hershey defending him. The bullets' DNA matches his, and he is convicted. Fargo retires on the Long Walk, and Dredd receives a life sentence.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Judge Dredd (1995)
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- Arnold Schwarzenegger was considered for the title role before it went to Sylvester Stallone, who had never even heard of the Judge Dredd character when he was cast.
- The filmmakers originally planned to depict the ABC Warrior combat robot with an actor in a suit, but Danny Cannon insisted on building a real, hydraulics-powered animatronic version that needed five people to operate its remote controls.
- The Manic Street Preachers song 'Judge Yr'self' was set to appear on the soundtrack, but it was pulled after guitarist Richey Edwards disappeared in early 1995, since it was the last song he had written with the band; it went unreleased until 2003.
- To avoid an NC-17 rating, the film had to be re-cut and resubmitted to the MPAA five times before it secured an R, and Stallone and the studio then pushed to trim it further for a PG-13.
- Stallone later recalled that during a chaotic shoot, director Danny Cannon once jumped off his chair for no clear reason and shouted 'FEAR me! Everyone should FEAR me!' at the crew before climbing back up as if nothing had happened, prompting the British crew to take bets on his life expectancy.
