Judge Dredd Gets a Sidekick

Back in July right around Comic Con news flew that Karl Urban had been cast as the lead in the "Judge Dredd" reboot being directed by Pete Travis. Today another casting has been announced and its Dredd's new recruit. Read the full breakdown after the jump...

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Judge Dredd Script Details

I've been closely following and covering the "Judge Dredd" development since it was first announced two years ago. I've always been a big fan of the comic and to a lesser degree the movie that starred Sylvester Stallone. Today new details have emerged surrounding the talked of script penned by Alex Garland and I have the full scoop for you below...

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Judge Dredd Gets a Financier

For over a year now we've known that a new "Judge Dredd" movie is in the works. How likely it is that it would actually get made seemed very much up in the air. Today's news however, changes all that. Word from Cannes has it that Andrew Macdonald’s DNA Films has struck a deal with Reliance Big Entertainment and IM Global to finance the 3D comic adaptation for a $50 million price tag. That's not all, the scoop also tells us a new director is on board to adapt the script penned by Alex Garland. Read the full breakdown after the break...

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Alex Garland Wrote 'Dredd'

Twitter has its good and bad, I hate all of the ad and porn bots, but sometimes we get some pretty cool breaking news like I have for you today. Comic book artist Mark Simpson who goes by the pseudonym of Jock posted to his Twitter account, "working through script visuals for Judge Dredd movie. Alex Garland writes a great script." Jock's tweet whether he knew it or not was the first anyone had heard that Garland was penning the script for the "Judge Dredd" reboot. We initially heard that the film would be re-booted back in December of 2008 and later saw concept art from Jock over at io9, but this is the first news of someone specifically penning the script.

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