Karl Urban Looking at Streaming Services for ‘Dredd’

We’ve been down this road before.

Since Dredd blew us all away in 2012, we’ve been longing for more Karl Urban as Judge Dredd. The problem is the film earned only $6 million over its opening weekend and went on to finish as a theatrical bust. Even with a cult following still growing, an increase in comic sales, and very successful home video sales, the execs in Hollywood aren’t sure another take on Judge Dredd would be worth the cost.

But that’s not stopping the fans from yelling for more, and it’s also not stopping Urban himself from attempting to give new life to the franchise.

Urban has been extremely vocal in his desire to get a sequel in production, but has also shared he is well aware studios aren’t interested in another financial failure. And when internet trolls played with our heart strings and announced that Dredd would be coming to Netflix for a 12-episode mini-series last year, fans and Urban didn’t lose faith and have actually used the hoax as a catalyst to getting Judge Dredd back.

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With a fan petition going for over a year now, fans are still pushing to get the character back. And now Urban himself has stepped in at this point, tweeting and reportedly talking with both Amazon and Netflix to try and get the mini-series, or an ongoing series, off the ground.

When you really break this down, it makes sense for Dredd to move to streaming instead of a movie studio taking a chance on a sequel.

Marvel has pushed their way into Netflix and brought us the type of series that Dredd would survive as with both Daredevil and Jessica Jones. Fans are flocking to stream these dark stories starring heroes that haven’t always been mainstream but are known well enough.

So even though the sequel is out of the question, hope still stands that Netflix can see this as an opportunity. Until that time we’ll keep hoping and keep reporting each time a ray of sunshine lights up the Dredd discussion.

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