The characterizations in the second Judge Dredd film were much better than the first (Dredd in name only, that one was) but the story was weak.
They have a LONG history they could draw from. They have epic tales but scaled it back to people sweeping a locked down tower. Yawn.
Robocop borrowed from the Judge Dredd world. So did Road Warrior.
Speaking of which, there is another Mad Max film (taking place between number 2 and 3) due soon.
I hope they don’t mess it up!
Btw there was an 80s anime, cleaned up for US kids, that would make a pretty good live action movie. The evil bad guy was a tranny or something. Heh. US version was “Battle Of The Planets”.