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Remember that early reporta few weeks ago about New Zealand-born-actor Karl Urban(Star Trek, Pathfinder*, The Chronicles of Riddick, The Lord of the Rings*) becoming the new Judge Dredd? Well, it’s now confirmed. According to Empire Online, Urban has been tapped to essay the steel-jawed, helmet-wearing, hard-core dispenser of justice in a dystopian far future. Producers Andrew Macdonald and Allon Reich confirmed Urban’s casting at a Q&A session.
Here’s an excerpt from my original piece about the Judge Dredd character’s comic book background:
For those not in the know (or the now), Judge Dredd first appeared more than 30 years ago in the pages of 2000 AD, a British-based, science-fiction oriented weekly comic book anthology. Credit for Judge Dredd belongs to writer/editor Pat Mills, writer John Wagner, and artist Carlos Ezquerra. In a dystopian future, uniformed Street Judges patrol Mega-City-One, dispensing on-the-spot justice, acting as police, judge, jury, and executioner. Dredd rides a cannon-powered, computer-equipped motorcycle, the “Lawmaster” (as opposed to the Lawnmaster, a completely different vehicle used for landscaping), a DNA-coded handgun called, appropriately enough, the “Lawgiver,” a pliability inducing baton, and, most iconic of all, a helmet that covers his face with the exception of his mouth and jaw.
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