The Art of Judge Dredd The Movie [A Selection] (1995)

The Art of Judge Dredd The Movie [A Selection]

Related to the Judge Dredd post on The 7th and Last.

The 1995 Judge Dredd movie may have had some of the worst casting of any Hollywood junk that year, but not everything about the venture was terrible. Some of the production art was pretty darn good. I know because a book from the same era gave an insight into what might have been.

INFO: ISBN 0-7522-0666-4, Page Count: 157, Published by Boxtree Limited. 1995.

Below the cut you'll find a small selection of what I feel are among the more interesting images from the book – that excludes much of the 'tech manual' stuff for weapons and vehicles, etc, so if that's your jam, apologies in advance.

01. Mega City One (no additional credit given, so perhaps by Nigel Phelps).

02. A single panel from a longer storyboard sequence by Kevin Walker.

03. The 'Mega-City-scape' by Simon Murton.

04. A Mega-City street view by Matt Codd.

05. LEFT: Diane Lane as Judge Hershey by Dermot Power.

RIGHT: The Movie's version of ABC Warrior Hammerstein by Kevin Walker.

06. LEFT: A detailing of the Mega-City's three social / economic layers by Nigel Phelps.

RIGHT: The Statue of Liberty dwarfed and constrained in the sprawling city by Matt Codd — possibly a reference to the America story.