Taika Waititi may not have had any luck with his Akira project, but THR reports the New Zealand filmmaker now has a hot new package hitting the Hollywood marketplace: Judge Dredd.

Waititi, best known for Thor: Ragnarok and Jojo Rabbit, is attached to direct a new feature film take on Dredd, the popular comic book character. Drew Pearce, the writer behind big action blockbusters like Fall Guy and Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, is on board to pen the screenplay.

Producers include Dredd rights holders Chris Kingsley, Jason Kingsley, and Ben Smith of Rebellion Developments, as well as Roy Lee of Vertigo Entertainment, Jeremy Platt, Natalie Viscuso, and Pearce.

Created in the late 1970s by writer John Wagner and artist Carlos Ezquerra, Judge Dredd debuted in the weekly British anthology 2000 AD. He is a police officer in the bleak, future metropolis of Mega-City One, part of a law enforcement corps that empowers officers to be judge, jury, and executioner.

The character appeared on the big screen in 1995, in an adaptation that starred Sylvester Stallone. That film was critically panned. In 2012, Karl Urban portrayed the titular character in Dredd, from a script by Civil War and 28 Years Later writer Alex Garland.