ComingSoon has dug up a couple more tidbits on the latest attempt to bring the comic Judge Dredd to the big screen. Now simply titled “Dredd,” the film will star Karl Urban as the titular crime fighter with Olivia Thirlby recently joining as Cassandra Anderson, “a telepathic rookie who shadows Dredd.”
Film production company IM Global has posted a vague synopsis of sorts of the film which you can read below:
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.
Doesn’t say much, does it? If you want to find out more about the film you can check out a script review we ran, which revealed that the screenplay was very dark and gritty with comparisons being drawn to “Die Hard” and “Blade Runner.” Evidently, the producers are going for a Hard-R rating and the film shoots in South Africa later this year with a modest $45 million dollar budget.
