Karl Urban to play Judge Dredd
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Agonus,
Posted on: 2010-07-25 23:19 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
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same, i still like the judge Dredd flick. most i ever got into it before a few years back were the various crossovers. (Batman, Aliens, et al)
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Originally Posted by ObiWan
I liked the Stallone's Dread. Although in my defense, i'd never dealt much with the source material.
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Hollywood.|
Originally Posted by Nericus
Is it Hollywood that believes we need to see Dredd's face.....or the ego of the actor?
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Same reason for having Spiderman's mask rip all the time, or having him pull it off for no good reason. They pay for an actor, they want his face up on the scree. They want to show him emote, too.
But I always think back to the first tiem I watched Return of the Jedi. When Darth Vader is watching the Emperor zapping Luke, you can feel his emotions, even though you are staring at a solid mask.
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There's an old acting exercise, where you would perform parts while wearing a nearly featureless face mask. This as to train you to be able to emote with just your body movements.|
Originally Posted by Arnabas
Hollywood.
Same reason for having Spiderman's mask rip all the time, or having him pull it off for no good reason. They pay for an actor, they want his face up on the scree. They want to show him emote, too. But I always think back to the first tiem I watched Return of the Jedi. When Darth Vader is watching the Emperor zapping Luke, you can feel his emotions, even though you are staring at a solid mask. |
Seems a lot of newer actors don't go through that anymore.
Shatner, of course, forgot how to turn it off.
-np
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Hm, Die Hard/Blade Runner mix and Dredd's helmet stays on.......so far so good. |
Originally Posted by TrueGentleman
Urban understands exactly why it's important for Dredd to remain helmeted:
As for the script, it's being described as "Die Hard taking place within the world of Blade Runner", but it doesn't sound like it's taking any direct plot elements from the comics. |
I rechecked the data on Dredd and I was right earlier. What little has ever been shown of his face is indeed suspect. They apparently once showed he was blue eyed but it was later revealed that his eyes are apparently cybernetic implants.
Also Ahnold did reject the role due to the helmet being on all the time thing. I'm guessing that since Stallone didn't have the helmet on much that they caved in to his demands about it as well as tossed him a lot of cash. Egos...
You know, they should have a scene where he takes off his helmet. But Every time the camera points at him, it either deliberately mis-frames him so you only see him from jaw-downward, or you see the back of his head, or there's a convenient shadow obscuring his face.
-np
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Works for me. I didn't see that... viking indian movie, but Urban was pretty good in Chronicles of Riddick and Star Trek.
Tales of Judgment. Also here, instead of that other place.
good luck D.B.B.