{"id":10261,"date":"2010-09-20T12:26:35","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T19:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=10261"},"modified":"2010-09-20T12:26:35","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T19:26:35","slug":"urban-darker-dredd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2010\/09\/urban-darker-dredd\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban: Darker Dredd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Karl Urban<\/strong>&#8216;s portrayal of Judge Dredd will be much darker than the one portrayed by <strong>Sylvester Stallone<\/strong> back in 1995.<\/p>\n<p>Urban explained that there was a reason they would be able to make the film darker than the 1995 version. &#8220;We&#8217;ve got the benefit of modern filmmaking and technology to help us,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/UrbanSmall.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10262\" title=\"UrbanSmall\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/UrbanSmall.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"108\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Plus, keeping Dredd&#8217;s looks under wraps will help in that effort. In this version of Dredd, Judge Dredd&#8217;s helmet is not coming off. &#8220;I think somewhere along the line Stallone\u2019s film was a missed opportunity,&#8221; explained Urban. &#8220;As soon as he took the helmet off, the enigma was blown.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But keeping that helmet on is a challenge for Urban, as far as acting goes. &#8220;You&#8217;re taught as an actor that if you take away the eyes, you have to think about what you&#8217;re left with &#8211; there&#8217;s the voice; there&#8217;s body language. How a character does what he does speaks volumes. So those are the tools I will have to employ.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Urban praised the script, which he considers a &#8220;fresh&#8221; take on the comic book character. &#8220;<strong>Alex Garland<\/strong> has done a fantastic job of writing a script that&#8217;s faithful to the world Wagner created,&#8221; he said, &#8220;yet completely fresh in its execution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Dredd<\/em> is due out in 2012.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Dredd072210.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10263\" title=\"Dredd072210\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Dredd072210.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"162\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karl Urban&#8216;s portrayal of Judge Dredd will be much darker than the one portrayed by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2401],"tags":[3392,2487],"class_list":["post-10261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-xi","tag-dredd","tag-urban"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-xi\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: XI<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: XI","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10264,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10261\/revisions\/10264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}