We've cast a guy called Karl Urban to play Dredd. There's been a change in comic-book movies they were treated unseriously and now they're treated seriously.

He's going to hit people and it's going to feel real. 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.

'The main thing about Dredd is that it's a fantastic comic that was completely messed up 20 years ago. Here's what Macdonald has to say about their fresh new take on the comic this time: Well, now Empire has double confirmed his casting and got new details from producers Andrew Macdonald and Allon Reich, who revealed that this will be a very gritty, hard R-rated adaptation.Īs if casting Urban in a high profile lead role like this wasn't enough good news, Macdonald and Reich know the film needs to be completely unlike the disastrous adaptation with Sylvester Stallone from the 90s. At the Con, outlets like Collider and Film School Rejects heard straight from Urban that he had been offered the role and they were working towards making it official. We first heard the solid rumor during Comic-Con that Karl Urban ( Star Trek, Lord of the Rings) might be delivering justice as Judge Dredd, a law enforcement officer of the future given power to act as judge, jury and executioner, in a new take on the sci-fi comic book character.

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