That beat is set in Mega-City One, the remaining sprawling North American city, that Garland said should almost be considered a character. In some ways, it’s a simple action movie, eschewing telling the main character’s origin story, instead showing a day in the life of Dredd as he takes out rookie judge Anderson (Olivia Thirlby) on the beat. “We actually decided quicker than that, we just didn’t tell you,” jokes Garland. I think that gave them the reassurance, because a couple of days later, they called up and said ‘the job’s yours.’” And I said, unequivocally, I wouldn’t be here if I had read a script and came to scenes with his helmet off. I think they wanted a little bit of reassurance that we didn’t get halfway through and I started demanding scenes with the helmet off. “You had the opposite of qualms, he said he wouldn’t do it,” says Garland. That’s the character, I knew it was it was going to be a challenge,” says Urban. One of the keys to that was the decision that Urban wouldn’t ever take the famous character’s helmet off, something that some actors might bristle at. Both Garland, the writer whose credits include The Beach and 28 Days Later, and Urban said they were fans of the original work and that they didn’t bother watching the original, as they wanted to keep much closer to the comic’s vision. It tells a tale of a Dredd much closer to the brutal, violent comic series whose stories started being printed in the weekly anthology series 2000 A.D. “Judgment,” Urban adds in his gruff character’s voice.ĭredd 3D is a grim and gritty reboot of the famed British comics character that wipes the slate clean from the cartoonish, forgettable Sylvester Stallone film from 1995. “If you say the wrong thing, he’ll chuck you through the window. Their current surroundings are considerably nicer than the story’s much grimier setting. Their film is set in Peach Tree Towers, a 200-storey slum that features Urban as the helmeted, future cop battling drug dealers on his way to freedom. Sitting in a suite on the 28th floor of the Trump Hotel during this month’s TIFF, writer Alex Garland and star Karl Urban can’t ignore how different it is from the setting their film Dredd 3D.
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