On his Twitter page, concept artist “Jock” has posted the first known picture of Karl Urban in full Judge Dredd regalia. What can you say? The dude looks like Judge Dredd, no one can really complain about that. Click on the image to see it slightly bigger.
The film, currently shooting in South Africa under the direction of Pete Travis, will be distributed in North America by Lionsgate in 2012. In addition to Urban, it stars Olivia Thirlby, Jason Cope, Langley Kirkwood, Kevon Kane, Joe Vaz and Warrick Grier. (Those last batch of names come from IMDB, so maybe take them with a grain of salt for now.)
Dredd takes us to the wild streets of Mega City One, the lone oasis of quasi-civilization on Cursed Earth. Judge Dredd (Karl Urban) is the most feared of elite Street Judges, with the power to enforce the law, sentence offenders and execute them on the spot – if necessary. The endlessly inventive mind of writer Alex Garland and the frenetic vision of director Peter Travis bring Dredd to life as a futuristic neo-noir action film that returns the celebrated character to the dark, visceral incarnation from John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra’s revered comic strip.
Olivia Thirlby
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