When the best thing you can say about this movie so far is that Karl Urban won't take off his helmet in the movie, that is saying too much. Like all comic book movies I want this to do extremely well, but so far for a movie that began filming all the way back in 2010 we sure haven't seen much. How in the world are we now in 2012 and we don't have any footage from this movie? Add in the fact that this movie was filmed in 3D, but on a shoestring budget of $45 million and I'm not feeling very confident.
What little we know is that Judge Dredd's home of Megacity will be a much darker and grittier locale than what we saw in the 1995 Sylvester Stallone version. And the heart of the story is Dredd training a rookie, Judge Anderson (Olivia Thirlby) and seeing if she has what it takes to make it in their futuristic world.
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Synopsis - 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.
Dredd will hit theaters September 21st, 2012
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