The well-known action star Sylvester Stallone can now look back on a remarkable film career. However, a certain comic adaptation from 1995 greatly annoyed the actor in hindsight.
At a press conference for John Rambo in 2008, the actor commented on the sci-fi film Judge Dredd from 1995, where he played the lead role of a tough law enforcer.
Stallone stated that he deeply regretted the film, even though he initially found the premise promising.
Here you can see a trailer for Judge Dredd:
“It really annoyed me a lot”
Sylvester Stallone confessed at the press conference: “The biggest mistake I ever made was the sloppy treatment of Judge Dredd.” (Source: faroutmagazine.co.uk)
He believed that the sci-fi film had great potential in the eyes of the star. “It could have been a fantastic, nihilistic, interesting vision of the future – [with] judge, jury, and executioner. The [film] really annoyed me a lot.”
He further explained what exactly he disliked about the film: “With all the pop culture, that really bothered me a lot. I thought it was a fantastic concept, but someone has to stand up for it when something doesn’t work – and I was the most famous and prominent”.
What kind of film is Judge Dredd? The film is based on a comic series from 2000AD. In it, Sylvester Stallone plays a so-called Judge, who embodies the role of a judge, jury, and executioner.
The Judges maintain law and order in the enormous mega-cities in the year 2080, while outside the cities, mutants make the area unsafe after a nuclear contamination.
More about the post-apocalyptic action film Judge Dredd can be found here with our colleagues at Moviepilot
Another film must have also greatly annoyed Sylvester Stallone in hindsight. It was foisted upon him by his arch-rival Arnold Schwarzenegger, as he had no interest in the role:
Laughing, the Terminator star recounted the anecdote in an American talk show about how he tricked Stallone:
How Arnold Schwarzenegger outsmarted his arch-rival to make one of the worst films of all time
