So Mr John Wagner, the guy who actually created Dredd (but you all knew that), has been over visiting the set of the new Dredd movie. He’s now come back and taken some spoiler free questions on his Facebook page.
I’m not going to post up the whole thing but here are some excerpts :
Very pleased with what I saw of Karl Urban and Olivia Thirlby. Both excellent in their roles and work well as a team. Entire crew really dedicated and determined to produce a damned good movie.
On Karl Urban and the costume :
I just had a brief conversation with Karl, he’s much too hard at work to spare a lot of time. There was one shot where the camera focused in on his face, a reaction to Anderson, and I swear Carlos could have drawn that scowl.
The uniform was still fairly paramilitary, but it works for me.
Karl, when he’s acting (and even when he’s not!), IS Judge Dredd.
On the kit :
Only got to see a partial shell of a lawmaster, so can’t really comment, but did handle a lawgiver. Looked good
On the direction they are taking with the movie :
Alex Garland and I have had our disagreements but he has usually had a convincing argument for doing things his way. On the main issue, concentrating the plot on a slice of life rather than trying to convey the whole sweep of Dredd and Mega-City life, I now see that he’s right. It was one of the flaws of the first movie, they tried to do too much.
So overall, he seems happy. And if he’s happy, I’m happy. As I’ve said before, the script seems perfect for an introductory movie and the casting all seems solid. Way too early to get excited… right?
Dude, stop lying. The real original creator of Judge Dredd would not stand for this shit!
Damn, you totally found me out. I made it all up. In fact John Wagner is actually just a brain in a jar now.