Dredd Director Travis Working on Another Comic Book Movie

During an interview promoting this week's release of Dredd to DVD and Blu-ray, filmmaker Pete [...]

By Russ Burlingame

During an interview promoting this week's release of Dredd to DVD and Blu-ray, filmmaker Pete Travis, who directed the movie, revealed to MovieWeb that he's currently developing a script for another comic book movie. "I wasn't looking for a comic book movie when I found Dredd," said Travis. "Like I say, it was all about the script. There is another comic book script that I have been sent, that I quite like. I hope it might get made this year. I think comic books and graphic novels are exciting. I think there are tons of ways to make them more real. It's an area I am really excited about." He couldn't comment further as the movie is in the very earliest stages of development. Of course, the great debate between being as totally true to the source material as possible versus making comics and graphic novels "more real" is one that's been ongoing for a while. Dredd is an instance where most fans were impressed by the sense of realism Travis and company brought to the film, but a number of longtime readers were somewhat alienated by a film that played satirical and ironic material too straight. The revelation that Travis is looking to go straight from Dredd to another comics adaptation is an interesting one; prior to Dredd, the filmmaker was best known for Vantage Point and Endgame, neither of which were adapted material; before that, his first adaptation of other media was a Henry VIII for British television.

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