There are high hopes for the upcoming Judge Dredd reboot after a great first trailer suggests they may have gotten the character right this time around. I don’t believe rebooting a somewhat obscure comic book character (The Punisher) has worked thus far. Dredd 
scribe Alex Garland spoke at the London Film and Comic-Con festival over the weekend regarding his plans for the character IF the film becomes a modest hit. I’m not convinced there are enough moviegoers in the general public interested enough to shell out $10 to see the film, but good buzz (and a September release date) could prove me wrong (I’m all for the character getting a trilogy arc). Garland via HitFix:
“We’ll see a sequel if the gross is above $50 million in the US . . . It’s a simple financial equation. We’re an independent movie.”
“In terms of Dark Judges, I wrote [Judge] Death into this script, but it didn’t feel right for the first film,” he said. “I needed to have set up the city and Dredd first before taking on what is essentially a riff on the Judges. You need to know what the Judges are before you can subvert them.”
“If they want to make sequels, I’ve got a story that goes from this one into the origins of Dredd and the city. Then the third one has would have a strange, existential attack from the Dark Judges.”
Source : HitFix
