Dredd

Watch the director’s cut of the Judge Dredd “Superfiend” animated series from Adi Shankar and The Junquera Brothers, which was originally released as a 6-episode web series.

Shankar is the producer on the cult-favorite 2012 Dredd movie, which starred Karl Urban, as well as the popular Power Rangers fan-film, the Punisher fan-films, and the feature films The Grey and Machine Gun Preacher.

Adi Shankar is also developing an animated Castlevania series, with the script by Warren Ellis, that is due out March 2017.

The above should probably be considered mature-rated.

You can follow Adi Shankar on Facebook.

Presents an alternate take on the origins of Judge Dredd’s arch-nemesis – a demonic creature known as Judge Death that sees life itself as a crime. Can Dredd survive a clash with such foe and save his niece?

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Though producer Adi Shankar recently recommended Dwayne Johnson for the sequel to Dredd, now writer Alex Garland says Dredd 2 isn’t happening.

io9 caught up with Garland at a round-table interview for Ex Machina, where Garland offered the following disappointing news.

There isn’t, as far as I can tell, going to be a Dredd sequel. The basic mechanics of film financing say that if you make a film that loses a ton of money, you’re not going to get a sequel. And that’s basically what happened.

And I understand and appreciate the support the film has had, and the campaigns that have existed for it, and it’s really genuinely gratifying — I love it in all respects except one, which is when I hear about people buying copies of the DVD in order to boost sales and to change the figures. And what I want to say to them is, “Don’t do that. Keep your money.” Because the people that are making the decisions are much colder and harder than that. And the graphs they’re looking at are not really going to be sufficiently dented by that.

So the support for the film is truly appreciated. But if there is going to be a sequel, it’s not going to be me and the team of people who worked on the previous film, it’s going to be another bunch of people. And good luck to them, and I hope it happens. I really do. I hope they do a better job than we did.

Per Garland’s comments about the first film not making money, Shankar’s video on Dredd 2 stated the first film suffered from poor international sales, and that movies get made by profit exceeding costs.

Dredd was released in 2012 starring Karl Urban.