Bad news, perps. It seems that rumours of a Dredd sequel have been overstated. Karl Urban has taken to Twitter to refute a strong rumour that has had fans of his 2012 2000AD movie bubbling since his panel at Denver Comic Con earlier this week.
"Unfortunately a sequel is no closer to happening,” he tweeted. “Options have been discussed but there is no sequel in ‘development’.” This dials back on reports that emerged from his Denver Comic Con panel suggesting that Dredd 2 was a going concern.
The New Zealander has previously been outspoken on the reasons behind Dredd’s meagre $35 million theatrical haul. “It represented a failure in marketing,” he's told Yahoo! News. "I saw the tracking of that film weeks before it came out and the fundamental problem was no-one knew it was being released. Once it came out on DVD and it sold 750,000 copies in the first week alone in North America alone, it was very clear that the audience had discovered it."
Urban's 2012 adaptation, a Pete Travis and Alex Garland collaboration that represented a big upgrade on the face-flaunting aberration that was the Sylvester Stallone-starring vehicle, flopped at the box office but has found plenty of love since then. A return to Mega-City One may still happen, whether on Netflix or the big screen, just not yet.