I’m not against remakes in principle at all. Won’t erase the original movie and if I don’t like it I can just ignore it.
BUT, my issue is the director. After watching a few of Patrick’s movies, including his most recent hitman’s wife’s bodyguard, son's action chops are merely meh. Man knows violence that’s for damn sure, but his staging of action and choreography is basic at best and does nothing to even hold a candle to the original.
What Dredd did so well was create its own language in action and focus on gun play. This is all hand to hand shyt with weapons tossed in and this guy just doesn’t do it for me. Maybe he’ll surprise, maybe he pitched a vision that everyone involved just adored. But looking at his resume, I don’t see what they see.