Karl Urban has already said that he'll be playing the character in an upcoming reboot from Vantage Point director Pete Travis. However, the film's producers Andrew MacDonald and Allon Reich have now shared some more details about the movie and confirmed that Urban will indeed be Judge Dredd.
"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."
Are you looking forward to this movie? Is Karl Urban the right guy for the job? Share your thoughts in the usual place! Judge Dredd is scheduled to begin filming in the autumn and will be shot in 3D.