Alex Garland apparently confirms that Dredd direct to the ghost

While Pete Travis I got the direction credit for the 2012 Badass action movie DredddSurumo has long been that his screenwriter Alex Garland He also had a hand in directing him, and now Ghirland apparently confirms it.

Fans and professionals have long suspected that Ghirland, known for writing 28 days later AND SunlightHe intervened to drive the ship behind the scenes.

Now, in a recent interview with GQ, where he crossed his career, and this IIS in which Garland has left something very interesting. While it says it openly, it is quite clear to which project it referred to:

“In truth, what happened, just to be honest about, watch, a lot of time has passed, I finished for some films essentially making ghost directions.

“Something would be wrong, or I would feel that something was going wrong, and I saw the execution of the scenes, and I would have thought:” It is not really that scene, this key part of the component is missing, and it doesn’t make sense for me. ”

“I could also see when the film that people didn’t care if that key component was there was there or not, but I cared.”

Garland does not explicitly mention DredddBut it is the closest to a confirmation that we will get and there are professionals who are supporting him.

Dreddd It is based on long duration 2000 AD comic, and recited Karl Urban Like the gloomy, without frills of a dystopian future. While the film was returned to the box office, obtaining a modest 41 million dollars globally, since then it has become a favorite of worship, praised for its elegant ultraviolence, the construction of the science fiction world on the ground and the perfect performance of Urban.

The movie was great! According to reports, Pete Travis, who received a single direction credit, had limited involvement in post-production. After DredddHis career moved largely to television.

Meanwhile, Garland has continued to make his debut to the official direction with Ex machina Two years later, who won an Oscar and launched a series of bold cerebral films like Annihilation, Devsand the recent war thriller A24 Warwith which he has co-director Ray Mendoza.

Cinema is a disordered deal and sometimes things go out of the tracks. But now it is right to say that Garland deserves the merit of helping in shape Dreddd In the movie the fans still go around. The same fans who implored a sequel that never came.

While this new information does not change Dreddd himself, he repairs him a little. That gritty and soaked world of slow bullets and brutal action had the fingerprints of Alex Garland everywhere. And now, more than ten years later, finally (a kind of) has it.