Dredd

Later this year, Dredd is coming out.

http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/3617/dreddposter.jpg

Based, perhaps obviously, on world-famous British comic anthology 2000AD's regular and highly-popular Judge Dredd comics. Karl Urban of... uh... some fame is cast as Judge Dredd and lesser-known actress Olivia Thirlby is cast as Judge Anderson (a character who, like Dredd, has numerous solo stories).

http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/3...0854dredd4.jpg
(Thirlby & Urban, and yes, I know Urban doesn't quite look right as Dredd in it)

Anyway, decided to start this topic now as the marketing is starting to ramp up and I saw an image that I had to share, and you can find it here, on the 2000AD tumblr.

I can't help but notice how small Anderson is next to Dredd.

Really, really excited about this film. I cannot wait to see it!

UPDATE (21/6/12): Full Length Trailer Now Online

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Originally Posted by Loerwyn

Later this year, Dredd is coming out.

Karl Urban of B-movie fame

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Because Lord of the Rings and Star Trek are B-movies.

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Originally Posted by Rob B

Because Lord of the Rings and Star Trek are B-movies.

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Wait, he was in them?

I just know he's been in a lot of B-movies, or B-movie-esque films.

Yup, second and third LOTR and he was Bones in the Star Trek reboot.

He was also in some crap movies Doom, Chronicles of Riddick, Pathfinder so I get your point...

He was in the second Bourne flick as well.

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Originally Posted by Rob B

Yup, second and third LOTR and he was Bones in the Star Trek reboot.

He was also in some crap movies Doom, Chronicles of Riddick, Pathfinder so I get your point...

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Doom had an awesome 'first person' segment.

But I'll take the B-movie point out, I had no idea he was a supporting actor in so many films.

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Originally Posted by Loerwyn

I can't help but notice how small Anderson is next to Dredd.

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Dredd also looks like he's an eight-year-old kid wearing an adult-sized helmet. I haven't read the comic in years, but his costume looks very little like the one I remember; has it changed that much?

Still, they would have to try hard to be worse than the Stallone movie.

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Originally Posted by Edward M. Grant

Dredd also looks like he's an eight-year-old kid wearing an adult-sized helmet. I haven't read the comic in years, but his costume looks very little like the one I remember; has it changed that much?

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They've definitely changed the costumes. There are recognisable stylistic elements - namely the helmets and badges (and I agree about Dredd's helmet looking too big!) - but they appear to have gone for less stylised armour in lieu of something more immediately practical.

This is the style you mean, yes?
http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/419...ersonthril.jpg

In the comics, it's very much the same as it was. Obviously things will have changed, but the armour of the Judges is basically the same.

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Originally Posted by Edward M. Grant

Still, they would have to try hard to be worse than the Stallone movie.

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Take that back.
http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/6...ddstallone.jpg

Actually, now I look more closely at that picture I can see the badges and shoulder pads are there, just toned down compared to the over-the-top size they use in the comic.

I hope they're going to CG his chin though, it doesn't look big enough :).

Ohmigosh ohmigosh ohmigosh! It's Trailer Day in Mega-City One!

Watch the trailer here

It's drokking awesome.

Well, I think stylistically it's based on Dredd with its little flourishes, but it also looks like they've toned it down a lot - it seems much more sensible in what the judges are wearing, and so on. It's different enough to stand on its own and to perhaps distance it from the comics, but recognisable enough for you to know what it is.

But yeah, really excited for this now!

It does look rather splendid, doesn't it? :D:D

(Apart from that helmet).

Drokk it! They have to work in I AM THE LAW the great song from thrash metal legends Anthrax into the film.

In the cursed Earth, where the mutants dwell...
There is no law just a Living HEELLL!

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Originally Posted by Rob B

Drokk it! They have to work in I AM THE LAW the great song from thrash metal legends Anthrax into the film.

In the cursed Earth, where the mutants dwell...
There is no law just a Living HEELLL!

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Ha ha! I was thinking the same thing!

Looks better in motion than in stills. I loved the Stallone movie, but this could be good too. Stallone's movie aimed more for humorous while this one looks much more serious.

You know that trailer was actually pretty cool. I especially liked the Mass Effecty sounding music. I have some pretty serious doubts but I will give it a watch sometime.