Jada Pinkett Smith auditioned for 'Gotham' with a man on a leash.

If you were thrilled by Gareth Evans’s bone-crunching action romp ‘The Raid’ back in May, then Pete Travis’s ultra-violent reboot of the 2000AD comic Judge Dredd will induce uneasy feelings of déjà vu.

The beautiful game has not always been well served by filmdom - think, in spite of its recent high placing in a poll, Escape to Victory.