Does Judge Dredd Movie Have A Screenplay Already?

Charlie Jane Anders — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:00:00 PDT

There's been no movement on a Judge Dredd movie since we featured some lovely concept art back in January. But yesterday, concept artist (and comics god) Jock Twittered that he's "working through script visuals for Judge Dredd movie. Alex Garland writes a great script." That's confirmation that Alex Garland (The Beach, 28 Days Later, Sunshine) is writing the script, and that he's already written enough of it for Jock to be working on visuals of specific scenes. Slashfilm speculates that Mark Romanek, currently in post-production on an adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go from a screenplay by Garland, could direct Dredd as well. [via Slashfilm]

Keira Knightley's Clone Bits Are Up For Grabs

Meredith Woerner — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 08:00:00 PST

Diminutive British actress Keira Knightley is starring in the cloning drama Never Let Me Go, based on Kazuo Ishiguro's acclaimed novel. So thinkThe Island, but probably with fewer people exploding and more actual character development.

People are already accusing Knightly's film of being a rehash of The Island. But to be fair, The Island was a rip-off of Parts: The Clonus Horror, which actually filed suit against Bay's movie back in 2005.

This movie, on the other hand, could be a much more intense drama, focusing on the relationships of three young students that grow up inside a boarding school for the sole purpose of raising organ donors. In the book, it sounds like when some of the students became aware of their fate, they've accepted it as their personal life-cycle, or just the way things are. In fact, one of the students' jobs is to comfort a clone who is about to face death, to donate their bits to improve another's life.

The scribe Alex Garland (28 Days Later) will also be producing the picture with award-winning music video director Mark Romanek (One Hour Photo) directing.

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Does Judge Dredd Movie Have A Screenplay Already?

Keira Knightley's Clone Bits Are Up For Grabs