Pete Travis And Alex Garland Deny DREDD Firing
[Post updated with a joint statement by Pete Travis and Alex Garland.]
Yesterday afternoon director Pete Travis and writer Alex Garland released a joint statement addressing the director situation on Dredd, stating the following:
During all stages of the filmmaking, 'Dredd' has been a collaboration between a number of dedicated creative parties. From the outset we decided on an unorthodox collaboration to make the film. This situation has been misinterpreted. To set the record straight, Pete was not fired and remains a central part of the collaboration, and Alex is not seeking a co-director credit. We are all extremely proud of the film we have made, and respectfully suggest that it is judged on viewing when its released next year.
Bluntly stated, this is spin. What director would ever agree 'from the outset' to a 'collaboration' that involved them being shut out of the editing process, a fact that is not being denied at all here? Answer: none.
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Fans hoping for a decent film version of Judge Dredd may have to keep on hoping. The first big screen attempt starring Sylvester Stallone was pretty much a fiasco and with behind the scenes discord overwhelming the second attempt at bringing the character to the big screen with Karl Urban, well, there's not a lot of reason to hope.
The LA Times are reporting that director Pete Travis has been frozen out of the post production process due to "creative differences" and has essentially had no input on the film since shooting was completed. Instead writer-producer Alex Garland is overseeing the edit with rumblings of reshoots being imminent and Garland's footprint on the film being so strong that he may seek a co-director credit.
If there is a silver lining here it is that control has gone to Garland - the screenwriter of Never Let Me Go and 28 Days Later, among others - rather than to a total outsider but this sort of behind the scenes squabbling almost never ends well. The last time I recall a scenario like this with a similar property is when Xavier Gens was pushed off of Hitman in the post production phase and everyone knows how well that turned out.
Yesterday afternoon director Pete Travis and writer Alex Garland released a joint statement addressing the director situation on Dredd, stating the following:
During all stages of the filmmaking, 'Dredd' has been a collaboration between a number of dedicated creative parties. From the outset we decided on an unorthodox collaboration to make the film. This situation has been misinterpreted. To set the record straight, Pete was not fired and remains a central part of the collaboration, and Alex is not seeking a co-director credit. We are all extremely proud of the film we have made, and respectfully suggest that it is judged on viewing when its released next year.
Bluntly stated, this is spin. What director would ever agree 'from the outset' to a 'collaboration' that involved them being shut out of the editing process, a fact that is not being denied at all here? Answer: none.
[the original post continues below.]
Fans hoping for a decent film version of Judge Dredd may have to keep on hoping. The first big screen attempt starring Sylvester Stallone was pretty much a fiasco and with behind the scenes discord overwhelming the second attempt at bringing the character to the big screen with Karl Urban, well, there's not a lot of reason to hope.
The LA Times are reporting that director Pete Travis has been frozen out of the post production process due to "creative differences" and has essentially had no input on the film since shooting was completed. Instead writer-producer Alex Garland is overseeing the edit with rumblings of reshoots being imminent and Garland's footprint on the film being so strong that he may seek a co-director credit.
If there is a silver lining here it is that control has gone to Garland - the screenwriter of Never Let Me Go and 28 Days Later, among others - rather than to a total outsider but this sort of behind the scenes squabbling almost never ends well. The last time I recall a scenario like this with a similar property is when Xavier Gens was pushed off of Hitman in the post production phase and everyone knows how well that turned out.
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