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• Director Danny Cannon was so disheartened over his constant creative disputes with Sylvester Stallone that he swore he would never again work with another big-name actor. He also claimed that the final version was completely different from the script, due to the changes Stallone demanded.
  
  
• The "flying bike" scenes features three seconds where Dredd is a computer generated image. This is the part where he swoops low over a crowd of punks.
  
  
• The movie was based upon a popular and long-running British comic book character who first appeared in the comic "2000 AD".
  
  

• From the beginning the film was intended to receive a PG-13 rating. Due to excessive violence the MPAA refused to downgrade the initial R rating despite repeated appeals by the studio and Stallone. Mostly because of schedule constraints the film could not be re-cut and was released with an R rating.
  
  
• Early on in development Arnold Schwarzenegger was considered for the title role.
  
  
• The Coen brothers, Peter Hewitt and Richard Stanley all reputedly turned down the chance to direct.
  
  
• Renny Harlin and Richard Donner were the first choices for director.
  
  
• According to "The Making Of Judge Dredd" by Jane Killick with David Chute and Charles Lippincott, a number of the production crew are mentioned around the set of Mega City 1: - Ty's Thai Kitchen (Ty Teiger, Prop Master) - Mary Lou's Reptile House (Mary Lou Devlin, Production Associate) - Lanzer Bacteriologist (John Lanzer, Production Buyer) - Allday and Nite Liquor Store & Allday Dining (David Allday, Art Director for vehicles) - Bill Ying Tong's ('Jon Billington', Junior Draughtsperson) - Grays Marks Dependable Delivery Service (Richard Graysmark, Floor Runner) - Newman's Dehumidifying (Christopher Newman, 1st Assistant Director) - Bracey Massage Service (Chris Bracey, Neon work, uncredited)
  
  
• The Welsh rock group Manic Street Preachers were supposed to compose the title song for the film, but after the disappearance of one of their members, they chose not to go on with the production and the project was abandoned. In 2003 they finally released the song, titled "Judge Yr'self".
  
  
• Director Danny Cannon had a poster for a Judge Dredd film that he created himself published in Prog 534 of 2000ad dated 8 August 1987.
  
  
• Adrienne Barbeau is the constant voice of the mainframe computer (uncredited), a role she also played in John Carpenter's The Thing (1982).
  
  
• According to Rob Schneider, Sylvester Stallone called him and offered him the role of Fergie after first choice Joe Pesci turned it down.
  
  
• Christopher Walken turned down the role of Rico.
  
  
• The scene in which Fergie mocks Dredd was improvised, and it turned out to be so funny to see Rob Schneider making fun of Sylvester Stallone that it was decided to keep it in the movie.
  
  
• Twice when giving locations, the police radio announcer alluded to two comedic duos: "Corner of Abbott and Costello" (Bud Abbott and Lou Costello) and "Corner of Burns and Allen" (George Burns and Gracie Allen)
  
  
• The vehicles used in the film (Taxis mainly) were actually Land Rover Forward Control 101s, originally used as a military vehicle. For the film, Land Rover designed and built the 31 vehicles using the FC101 chassis and a fibreglass body. Only one of the vehicles was given an interior to match for close up and interior shots, the rest were totally bare inside except for the controls and a drivers seat.
  
  

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