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After suffering through the painfully slow release of a mere handful of still images and set photos from director Pete Travis' (Vantage Point, Endgame) Dredd adaptation since the movie went into production in South Africa in November 2010, it looks like we're finally on the verge of seeing what Karl Urban looks like in motion as Judge Dredd, square-jawed dispenser of justice in the the chaotic future megalopolis known as Mega City One. Earlier today, Lionsgate used Twitter to give us a heads up that the first trailer for Dredd will finally be dropping later this week:
Prepare for judgment, #Dredd fans! @Machinima_com will premiere the 1st official trailer this Thursday. You excited?
more about Dredd >> Posted 06.18.12 by BrentJS -
There's been no word on when the first trailer for director Pete Travis' (Vantage Point, Endgame) Dredd will be released, but we're starting to get a pretty good idea of what the movie will look like thanks to the still images that have been trickling out over the past several months and the poster that was released last week.
Now, we have our first look behind the scenes of the production, courtesy of 2000 AD Online, the 'net presence for the British comic book that first introduced the world to Joseph Dredd way back in March 1977. The site posted three set photos that offer the best look yet at Karl Urban and Olivia Thirlby in costume as Dredd and Anderson, respectively, two of the bad-ass law-dogs known as "Judges" who patrol the mean streets of Mega City One with the power to act as police, judge, jury and executioner.
SEE THE SET PHOTOS >> Posted 06.16.12 by BrentJS -
Thanks to the bomb that was Sylvestar Stallone's 1995 Judge Dredd, the bar is set pretty low for the reboot Dredd. But given what we've seen so far, we think the bar should be raised. Still awaiting a trailer, today we got a look at the movie's first poster, courtesy of Joblo.com, showing Karl Urban as the title character draped in darkness, teasingly revealing his Dredd uniform with the tagline: "Judgement is Coming." The site also posted two new stills from the movie.
The latest adaptation follows a "day in the life" of Judge Dredd as he patrols the futuristic Mega City One with his telepathic rookie partner, Judge Anderson (Olivia Thirlby), tracking down a gang that deals with the reality-altering drug, SLO-MO.
Looks like this gritty adaptation should wash away that awful taste that Stallone's Dredd left in everyone's mouth.
check out the full-size poster and stills>> Posted 06.08.12 by Chris -
Just because The Avengers spent all week racking up box office records and is already doing so again, taking the title of "best second Friday" away from The Dark Knight, let's not forget that there are three more superhero movies on the horizon, each hoping to take those titles away from "Earth's Mightiest Heroes." Of the three — The Dark Knight Rises, The Amazing Spider-Man, and Dredd — Christopher Nolan's third and final Batman movie has the best chance of kicking The Avengers off of its throne in light of the fact that most of the titles that were broken this past week were previously owned by The Dark Knight. Warner Bros. has been sparing in its promotional materials for the movie, but the studio released an awesome new high-resolution photo of Tom Hardy as the man who finally breaks the Bat, Bane, to help launch the new interactive iPad edition of Total Film Magazine.
see the new images >> Posted 05.13.12 by BrentJS -
A trailer for the adaptation of Dredd has yet to be revealed, but more new images have arrived to go along with the photo of Karl Urban in costume as the title character that was released last week.
Based on the British comic book created by writer John Wagner and artist Carlos Ezquerra, the character of Judge Dredd is mostly known in the States because of the poorly received 1995 movie adaptation that starred Sylvester Stallone. The latest adaptation follows a "day in the life" of Judge Dredd as he patrols the futuristic Mega City One with his telepathic rookie partner, Judge Anderson (Olivia Thirlby). While that sounds almost peaceful, the new photos from fansite 2000AD reveal that a "day in the life" of Judge Dredd means extreme violence, particularly the photo where Anderson delivers swift justice in the form of a bullet to the back of someone's head.
look at the photos (NSFW) >> Posted 02.07.12 by Ryan -
One day after franchise star Vin Diesel released the first still image from the sequel to The Chronicles of Riddick via his his personal Facebook page, Universal Pictures, Radar Pictures and Diesel's own production company, One Race Films, formally announced that principal photography on Riddick — it was unclear from the announcement if this is the formal title of the third chapter in the Riddick chronicles or simply the working title — has begun in Montreal, Canada. The press release also included the first detailed synopsis of the new movie, as well as the full cast list, including confirmation that Karl Urban (Star Trek, upcoming Dredd) will return as Riddick's (Diesel) right-hand man, Vaako.
read the synopsis and learn who will star alongside Diesel >> Posted 02.05.12 by BrentJS -
A pair of new images from two upcoming sci-fi movies have been released online. The first, a large close-up shot of Karl Urban in costume as the futuristic law-dog Judge Dredd in director Pete Travis' (Vantage Point, Endgame) Dredd comes courtesy of Total Film magazine (scan by StarkIndustries.ru). The image doesn't reveal much more than what we've seen previously, but it does seem to support Urban's promise that his Judge Dredd — as opposed to Sylvester Stallone's version in the 1995 movie adaptation — will "keep [the] helmet on."
The second image comes directly from the set of the currently-in-production sequel to The Chronicles of Riddick and was posted online by franchise star Vin Diesel via his personal Facebook page. The image is the second shot of Diesel in costume that has been released in the last two weeks and shows Riddick wearing a different costume than the "Necro-armor" he sported in the last set photo.
check out the new images >> Posted 02.01.12 by BrentJS -
When a movie studio announces that it intends to produce a live-action feature starring a classic superhero, the news is met with great excitement in the comic book movie fan community...unless that superhero has already been maligned by Hollywood in the minds of the fans. Such was the case when Reliance announced its plans to bring the classic 2000 A.D. character Judge Dredd back to the big screen in a movie titled simply Dredd. Instead of unrestrained enthusiasm, the news was met with skepticism and trepidation by the fans who felt that the 1995 movie starring Sylvester Stallone did a major disservice to the character.
what did urban say about dredd and his helmet? >> Posted 09.06.11 by BrentJS -
After what seemed like a promotional black hole, a new, albeit dark, photo of Karl Urban as comic book character Judge Dredd emerged last week — the first sign of life from the upcoming Dredd reboot since the first photo of Urban surfaced last November.
While production on Dredd began last August and wrapped in March, the movie now, finally, has a release date. Deadline reports it will hit theaters on September 21, 2012, arriving in 3-D. The "a day-in-the-life" movie follows Dredd patrolling Mega City One and training his telepathic rookie partner, Judge Anderson (Olivia Thirlby).
when is Cabin in the Woods arriving? >> Posted 07.22.11 by Ryan -
Last November, the first photo of Karl Urban in action as Judge Dredd in the upcoming reboot Dredd debuted online. It seemed like a cavalcade of promotional items would follow, but, instead, only a few instances of "spy pics" revealing the South African set of Mega-City One and Dredd's motorcycle were released. Then, nothing.
Still lacking a solid release date, Bleeding Cool has revealed a dark, intense look at Urban as Dredd, the iconic, hardened lawman from John Wagner's Judge Dredd comic book series, and we do mean dark. Don't worry that you can't see Urban's face — unlike the woeful 1995 adaptation that starred Sylvester Stallone, Urban has promised his version of the Dredd character will "keep the helmet on" like he does in the comics.
Produced by Academy Award-winning director Danny Boyle's (Slumdog Millionaire) DNA Films and adapted by frequent Boyle collaborator Alex Garland (28 Days Later,Sunshine), Dredd will follow "a day-in-the-life" of Dredd as he trains his telepathic rookie partner, Judge Anderson (Olivia Thirlby). Lena Headey (300) plays Ma-Ma, a villainous drug dealer. Pete Travis (Vantage Point) directed the movie, which Urban has described as a "very gritty, hardcore, faithful adaptation".
Posted 07.17.11 by Ryan