KarlUrban

Despite the best efforts of friends and readers who have assured me that I'd like it, I'm about as unfamiliar with Judge Dredd as you can be while still reading comics all day for a living. I've only ever really read one Dredd story -- the pretty much mandatory battle against the Dark Judges where Dredd responds to "Gaze into the face of fear" with one of the most badass moments in comi

Movies: A new poster for Dredd 3D sees star Kyle Urban stand amid some Mega City One destruction. Digital: All digital Viz titles are currently on sale, with discounts up to 20 percent off. Animation: Zane Houston puts his Marvel and DC Lego heroes into motion in the "Egos Collide" short...

Grud on a Greenie! New images from the upcoming Dredd movie adaptation of British sci-fi anti-hero Judge Dredd have hit the internet, showing several action-oriented images capturing just how well Karl Urban might fare as the man who "is the law" in 22nd century America...

Movies: The first trailer for Morgan Spurlock, Joss Whedon and Kevin Smith's Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope documentary is now live. Does it reflect your SDCC experiences so far? Manga: A new Biohazard (Resident Evil) manga series February 23 in Japan's Weekly Shonen Champion...

New images of Karl Urban and Olivia Thirlby as Judge Dredd and Judge Anderson have surfaced at 2000AD and the outlook for criminals in the upcoming live action Dredd movie looks suitably grim. For real. With huge firearms drawn, the film's stars -- specifically Anderson -- can be seen sentencing some bad dudes to head-splattery death...

British film magazine Empire has an impressive array of new photographs from the set of Dredd, the forthcoming film based on the irrepressible 2000 A.D. character Judge Dredd created by John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra. The film stars Karl Urban (Star Trek, Priest) in the title role, an ultra-violent lawman based in Mega-City One, a post-apocalyptic metropolis where his word is law...

In a shocking display of a comics creator using social networking to engage his audience rather than broadcasting his disdain for them, John Wagner invited fans to query him via Facebook on the progress of Dredd, the new film based on his and Carlos Ezquerra's ultra-violent anti-hero Judge Dredd...

In what we hope is an appropriately unilateral action, 2000AD has taken it upon itself to release the first image of actor Karl Urban in full Judge Dredd regalia, taken during rehearsals for the upcoming film adaptation. Posted innocuously at the publisher's message boards earlier today, the image shows Urban as the Dredd we all hoped he'd be: helmeted, armed, and looking extremely pissed off... R

The new Judge Dredd film is off to an auspicious start: "Star Trek's" Karl Urban in the title role, a script by "28 Days Later" and "Sunshine" writer Alex Garland, co-creator John Wagner on board, and $30 million in the bank. IM Global, the sales company that represents "Dredd", has sold the film in foreign markets including Germany, Spain, Australia, Canada