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Four new pics from Pete Travis’ “Dredd”, the Brit-heavy reboot of the Sylvester Stallone movie. You can only improve on that version, right? One can only hope.
In a violent, futuristic city where the police have the authority to act as judge, jury and executioner, a cop teams with a trainee to take down a gang that deals the reality-altering drug, SLO-MO.
Isn’t Judge Dredd suppose to snarl a lot? I don’t read the comics or anything, but you know, when I picture Judge Dredd, I picture him with that “I’m gonna so kick ass your ass piss down your throat” snarl. Then again, that could just be an after-memory from the Sylvester Stallone “Judge Dredd” movie. Whatever, new pic below. Enjoy.
Empire Magazine has your first looks at Pete Travis’ Judge Dredd remake, simply titled “Dredd”. They’re low-res, but what the hell, better low-res than nothing, am I right? Check out more looks at Karl Urban as Judge Dredd, along with your first looks at Olivia Thirlby as Judge Cassandra Anderson and Lena Headey as the villainous Madeline ‘Ma-Ma’ Madrigal.
A couple of casting news that should be of interest to sci-fi fans:
Been wondering what Karl Urban would look like in the famous Judge Dredd helmet? Well, wonder no more. Here’s your first look at Urban as Dredd in the upcoming remake/reboot/whatever from 2000 AD.
Urban is Dredd, Olivia Thirlby is psychic Judge Cassandra, and Pete Travis directs from a script by “Sunshine’s” Alex Garland.
The boys at What’s Playing got their hands on Alex Garland’s script for the upcoming “Judge Dredd” reboot from 2000 AD and have posted some details. No worries, though, there aren’t any major spoilers here, just how the movie begins, and the main characters.
According to IM Global, one of the producers on the upcoming “Judge Dredd” reboot, the film will be called simply “Dredd” (an attempt to distance it a tad from the Stallone version, perhaps?), and they’ve put out an official synopsis for the movie over at their website:
You can add Olivia Thirlby to the cast of DNA Films’ 3D reboot of “Judge Dredd”, which is set to star Karl Urban as the futuristic lawman.
Thirlby, who has the alien invasion movie “The Darkest Hours” coming out in 2011 for producer Timur Bekmambetov (“Wanted”), will be playing Cassandra Anderson (below) in the UK-based reboot of the popular “2000 AD” character.
Not really news, because Karl Urban has been talking about the new “Judge Dredd” movie like he was already cast all the way back at Comic Con, but this is apparently an official confirmation that he has, in fact, been cast as Dredd in the reboot.
Earlier yesterday there were rumors that Karl Urban (McCoy in “Star Trek”) was the frontrunner to play Judge Dredd in the new version of the character currently being cooked up overseas. Over at Comic Con, where he was attending along with the cast of “Red”, in which he plays a bad CIA guy alongside Bruce Willis, Urban confirmed the casting rumor to MTV, saying that it’s “looking good” that he’ll be donning the shoulder pads and judging, er, guns for the remake.
It’s been almost a year since Rebellion and 2000 AD announced that they were planning to reboot their “Judge Dredd” property. Haven’t heard much from it since, but now we know who is currently writing the script: one Alex Garland.
What, Sylvester Stallone as Judge Dredd wasn’t good enough for you guys? You gotta reboot the character for the big screen? Okay, why not. Let’s face it, 1995′s “Judge Dredd” was a major disappointment. A big-budget mega disappointment. Okay, okay, it pretty much stunk up the joint, which may be why the guys at 2000AD are already hard at work getting the reboot together for a 2009 start date. Don’t believe me? They said so at their site.
