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Karl Urban's Judge Dredd will be gritty and will keep helmet on

BrandX

By BrandX,
Posted on: 2010-08-13 17:14 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture

 

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Here's a quote from my article at Shadowrush.com:

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According to producers Andrew Macdonald and Allon Reich, Karl Urban (Dr. McCoy from Star Trek) will be playing Judge Dredd, reports Empire Online. There was a rumour about it from Comic-Con, but an answer from Karl Urban in a 3news article last month comfirmed it. The producers’ answers during a Q&A at Movie-Con III have also reaffirmed the casting choice.

MacDonald also had this to say about the upcoming film based on the comicbook character:

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The main thing about Dredd is that it’s a fantastic comic that was completely messed up 20 years ago. Our idea is to make a very hard, R-rated, gritty, realistic movie of Dredd in Megacity, so we’ve got to get the tone right. He’s not going to take off his helmet. His bike is going to feel real. He’s going to hit people and it’s going to feel real.

There’s been a change in comic-book movies; they were treated unseriously and now they’re treated seriously. We’ve cast a guy called Karl Urban to play Dredd. We’ll be shooting in Johannesburg, it’s being directed by Pete Travis, we’re shooting with the people who did District 9 – and if we get it right, Alex has a couple of ideas for other stories as well. It’s not based on any one comic, and John Wagner is involved in every decision.
Judge Dredd is based on the comicbook character of the same name, where one man is judge, jury and executioner. Sylvester Stallone played the character in the 1995 version. This new movie will not have a connection to the previous one. Shooting in South Africa will begin later this year.
Link to the article.

This sounds promising. So it looks like it will be a more serious, gritty and realistic take compared to the previous Judge Dredd movie. And the fans who complained about Dredd removing his helmet will be happy to know that he'll be keeping it on this time.

 

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Meh. The original movie was awesome, end of story.

I could have totally seen Sly in the sequel going, "Gaze into the fist of Dredd," to that one Dark Judge.

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Here's a quote from my article at Shadowrush.com:


Link to the article.

This sounds promising. So it looks like it will be a more serious, gritty and realistic take compared to the previous Judge Dredd movie. And the fans who complained about Dredd removing his helmet will be happy to know that he'll be keeping it on this time.
Bring in his biggest enemy Judge Death and not remove the Psi Division like they did in the Judge Dredd movie.

And if Rob Schnieder is cast he dies very brutally in the film which would make it a win.

 

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If you thought Stallone's Dredd was good, you clearly have never read the original comic.

Lots of reason why this sounds superior right off the bat.


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Bring in his biggest enemy Judge Death and not remove the Psi Division like they did in the Judge Dredd movie.

And if Rob Schnieder is cast he dies very brutally in the film which would make it a win.
I thought Judge Dredd was the only time Rob Schnieder has ever been funny, ever.

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I thought Judge Dredd was the only time Rob Schnieder has ever been funny, ever.


i gotta agree. i was HUGE fan of the comic when i was young, but when this movie came out, comic movies were, well............. christ, they put dolph lundgren in as the punisher....
so i didn't expect much, and though it missed the dark and mean feel of the comic, i thought the comedic take on it was a good runner up at the time. and i love schnieders "mister i am da law' line. but very psyched for the new one, gonna keep my secret dvd copy of the old one hidden in the bottom of my sock drawer like it was pron, but i'm hoping for a btter movie this time around.

Oh yeah, that was the time that girl got her whatchamacallit stuck in that guys dooblickitz and then what his name did that thing with the lizards and it cleared right up.

screw your joke, i want "FREEM"

 

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Also, the robot from the first movie's model was used for the commercial for some third-rate tech school. But they didn't acknowledge it or anything, I think it was plagiarized.

But really, Sylvester Stallone was great as Judge Dredd. I mean, the resemblance is uncanny.

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Having never read the comic, just seeing the movie, is it really that bad that he removed the helmet?

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Having never read the comic, just seeing the movie, is it really that bad that he removed the helmet?
From what I know of the series he is supposed to be a faceless representation of justice. So taking off the helm defeats that purpose.

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