Le Saboteur
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In the mid-nineties I started reading comics on a regular basis again. Primarily, the new newly launched Image books like Spawn and Savage Dragon; Wild C.A.T.S, Gen 13, Sin City, and others would follow in short order.
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One of those books that I could only find infrequently was 2000 A.D., the British sci-fi publication that gave rise to Judge Dredd. In the dystopian future Dredd inhabits, he's the most illustrious member of Mega City 1's police force, the Street Judges. In short, he was judge, jury, and executioner wrapped into a Warhammer 40k-like uniform! So it was with some excitement that I went into the theatre to see the Stallone-driven picture.
Remember this colossal turkey? You'd be forgiven if you don't. Despite the Gucci-designed uniform (or was that Armani?), a great looking ABC robot, and the confoundedly popular at the time Rob Schneider, it tanked at the box office. It would take another 17-years before they attempted to bring it to the silver screen again.
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That's Karl Urban donning the helmet. You might remember him from such films as The Lord of the Rings, Priest, and the recent Star Trek remake where he filled the shoes of Bones McCoy. Olivia Thirlby and Lena Headey round out the principle players.
:60-clip from the movie.
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Full article here.
Dialogue with Karl Urban here.
I missed the sneak peak at Comic Con, but the early buzz has been positive.
Buy a ticket, will ya?!
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One of those books that I could only find infrequently was 2000 A.D., the British sci-fi publication that gave rise to Judge Dredd. In the dystopian future Dredd inhabits, he's the most illustrious member of Mega City 1's police force, the Street Judges. In short, he was judge, jury, and executioner wrapped into a Warhammer 40k-like uniform! So it was with some excitement that I went into the theatre to see the Stallone-driven picture.
Remember this colossal turkey? You'd be forgiven if you don't. Despite the Gucci-designed uniform (or was that Armani?), a great looking ABC robot, and the confoundedly popular at the time Rob Schneider, it tanked at the box office. It would take another 17-years before they attempted to bring it to the silver screen again.
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That's Karl Urban donning the helmet. You might remember him from such films as The Lord of the Rings, Priest, and the recent Star Trek remake where he filled the shoes of Bones McCoy. Olivia Thirlby and Lena Headey round out the principle players.
:60-clip from the movie.
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Olivia Thirlby said:Absolutely, yeah, most of the time in genres such as this one I think that the female characters are largely there to look hot. I'm not saying anything bad about that. That definitely serves a purpose, but that was never the idea for Anderson and I think that's what made me feel comfortable to play her. The character is so majorly badass in the script, and [it's] really Alex Garland who wrote this amazing character. But the costumes, even the way that they were designed, I remember being in the early fittings when they were just taking the measurements and telling me about what it was going to look like. The costume has a zipper on the front and I was saying, 'well can't I keep it unzipped a little bit?' And they were saying, 'no you can't, because this film is not about making you look sexy and buxom, this film is realistic and you're supposed to look like a riot cop. No riot cop would unzip their bulletproof vest down to show cleavage.'
Full article here.
Karl Urban said:When I read the script, it became obvious to me that what we were endeavoring to do was completely different. Tonally, you couldn't get more different. I watched the Stallone version to see what worked and what didn't work. The way I wanted to approach this character was not to have him be a posturing, bellowing character that was ground in ego. To me, that wasn't the Dredd I knew. I thought it was far more interesting to have a character with this inner rage, struggling to contain it rather than letting it all explode. That's the direction I was going in. I decided that what I wanted to do was to find the humanity within Dredd because he is just a man. He's not a superhero, he has no superhero power. He's just a man. It's his heroism that makes him so iconic, defines him. He's the guy always walking into the building when everyone else is running out. He does the things most people wouldn't dare to do in real life.
Dialogue with Karl Urban here.
I missed the sneak peak at Comic Con, but the early buzz has been positive.
Buy a ticket, will ya?!
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