17 of the most interesting Dredd easter eggs you didn't know about. Handpicked and verified, these little-known hidden details can be obscure enough most people will miss. These behind the scene easter eggs and hidden messages will give you another view of Dredd movie message.
In a violent, futuristic city where the police have the authority to act as judge, jury and executioner, a cop teams with a trainee to take down a gang that deals the reality-altering drug, SLO-MO.
Genre
Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
Director
Pete Travis
Stars
Karl Urban, Rachel Wood, Andile Mngadi, Porteus Xandau
IMDB score
7.1
Dredd Movie Easter Eggs
The medic displays the arrest records of 3 gang members from gangs eliminated by Ma-Ma. The arresting judges listed in the records have all been Chief Judges at some point in the Judge Dredd comics.
Reflection in the hall of Justice exterior is the last name of one of the early artists for the Judge Dredd comic
Near the start of the movie we see the corpse of an obese man laid next to a unicycle. This is reference to the 'Fatties' from the Dredd Comics.
Stallone's armour in Judge Dredd (1995) Is Versace
Dredd movie hidden details
The American flag only has 5 stars, representing the 5 North American Mega-cities
Instead of the usual made up computer nonsense, the techie character is using a Linux terminal and the nmap command (an actual command used to map networks) to locate the machine Dredd is transmitting from.
When Anderson has a mind duel with Kay, she lets him shoot her with her own sidearm. Thus she subtly plants the idea of using her weapon against her in Kay's mind, which comes in handy later.
When the characters took the drug "slo-mo", an ethereal and calming soundtrack would play. Turns out that the music was Justin Bieber's "U Smile" slowed down by 800%.
Seconds. It is exactly 20 seconds later he shoots the first one.
You can see that US (Megacity One) has switched to Metric system. Height in meters, weight in kilograms.
Whenever Anderson uses her psychic powers, an aura briefly materializes around her
The background music heard when the scene is in slo-mo, are small musical vignettes slowed down considerably. Here's one, originally 4 minutes long, sped up to 16 seconds
slow motion scene when Dredd (played by Karl Urban) storms into thugs nest you can see the young version of Sylvester Stallone (original 1995s Dredd) with a cigarette in the background.
Is built off the body and grip of a Glock handgun
Dredd is outfitted with velcro shoes when sent to the penal colony so that he doesn't hang himself on his shoelaces.
A computer at Control reads that a riot is assigned to Judge Hershey.
When Mama is asked "How the fuck do we stop them" by one of the thugs, she answers with "Call 911". A couple minutes later, other judges bribed by Mama are seen in the block hunting for Dredd, suggesting they they indeed called the 911.
