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New 'Dredd' Photos Show Exploding Brain, Olivia Thirlby, Huffy Judge Dredd, Naturally

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Even placed beside the lovely Olivia Thirlby, still futuristic sourpuss Karl Urban remains perpetually sullen as Mega-City One's judge, executioner, and personified frown emoticon, Judge Dredd. Such noble commitment to helmeted petulance.

As collected by ECBT2000AD (via), here are a few new shots from Peter Travis's upcoming Dredd. Since rumors started about behind the scenes problems from the editing room, little has come out to reassure anyone about the adaptation of the 2000AD comics property, but if nothing else, the below photo of an exploding head does at least seem to confirm a darker take than the 1995 adaptation. As I recall, Rob Schneider's brain was, disappointingly, never so graphically shot out the back of his skull.

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What do you want, Dredd? Ice cream? Do you want to get ice cream? Do you need a little nap? Your Spongebob tape? Come on, you have to speak up or we can't help you.

  • July 13, 2012
    The first trailer for Dredd strongly hinted that a slow-motion drug in the film might function equally as a source of conflict and a bizarre contrivance to excuse the film's excess of slow-mo action. This first clip from the film quickly (but also realllly slowly) confirms this... / Continue →
  • June 21, 2012
    You have to give some credit to Dredd that, in adapting its comic book namesake, it at least looks nothing like the miserable Sylvester Stallone/Rob Schneider vehicle of summer 1995. It does, however, look quite a bit like this year's The Raid: Redemption, only with less martia... / Continue →
  • January 31, 2012
    Still no footage from Peter Travis's upcoming comic book reboot, Dredd, so we'll just have to make due with this new photo from the film--a frowning reminder that Judge Dredd is indeed coming back this September, and this time, he is quite gwumpy.... / Continue →
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