Judge Griffin - Judge Dredd Movie

Judge Dredd Movie

A different version of Judge Griffin appeared in the 1995 Judge Dredd film, played by Jürgen Prochnow. He serves on the Council of Five and openly expresses his views that Mega-City One needs a tougher criminal code and to expand executions to include lesser crimes. When Judge Dredd is put on trial for murder and seemingly incontrovertible evidence is introduced, Chief Justice Fargo asks to halt the proceedings so that he can confer with Griffin. Fargo is deeply upset that Dredd may be guilty of murder and may have the same homicidal tendencies as Rico, both of whom were products of a top secret cloning program (the "Janus Project") that the Council of Five initiatied over forty years ago, which may now come to light. Griffin suggests that if Fargo takes the Long Walk out to the Cursed Earth he can get Dredd's sentence commuted from death to life imprisonment, and this will prevent the truth from coming out. Fargo does so, and Griffin becomes chief justice, and it soon becomes clear that Griffin plotted the removal of Dredd and Fargo, to become chief justice and to push through his new, stricter laws, and restart the cloning program on a larger scale. Unfortunately he had arranged for Rico to escape from jail to help in these schemes, and Rico kills Griffin in an attempt to seize power for himself.

This version of Griffin effectively fills the role of Judge Cal in the comic.