{"id":9961,"date":"2010-08-16T12:44:35","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T19:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=9961"},"modified":"2010-08-16T12:44:35","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T19:44:35","slug":"urban-confirmed-as-dredd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2010\/08\/urban-confirmed-as-dredd\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Confirmed as Dredd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A rumor from last month that <strong>Karl Urban<\/strong> would play the lead role in <em>Judge Dredd<\/em> has turned out to be confirmed.<\/p>\n<p><em>Judge Dredd<\/em> producers <strong>Andrew Macdonald<\/strong> and<strong> Allon Reich<\/strong> confirmed that Urban had been cast for the role in the film, which will begin shooting soon in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Dredd072210.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9962\" title=\"Dredd072210\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Dredd072210.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"162\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Macdonald spoke about making the movie based on the <em>Judge Dredd<\/em> comic and what he and Reich had in mind for the story based on a comic that appeared thirty years ago. &#8220;The main thing about Dredd is that it\u2019s a fantastic comic that was completely messed up twenty years ago,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Our idea is to make a very hard, R-rated, gritty, realistic movie of Dredd in Megacity, so we\u2019ve got to get the tone right. He\u2019s not going to take off his helmet. His bike is going to feel real. He\u2019s going to hit people and it\u2019s going to feel real.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to Macdonald, movies based on comic books have changed. &#8220;They were treated unseriously and now they&#8217;re treated seriously,&#8221; said Macdonald. &#8220;We&#8217;ve cast a guy called Karl Urban to play Dredd. We&#8217;ll be shooting in Johannesburg; it&#8217;s being directed by <strong>Pete Travis<\/strong>; we&#8217;re shooting with the people who did <em>District 9<\/em>, and if we get it right, Alex has a couple of ideas for other stories as well. It&#8217;s not based on any one comic, and<strong> John Wagner<\/strong> is involved in every decision.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Judge Dredd<\/em> is expected out in 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rumor from last month that Karl Urban would play the lead role in Judge&#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":[3315,2487],"class_list":["post-9961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-xi","tag-judge-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\/9961","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=9961"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9964,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9961\/revisions\/9964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}