Pistol-packing Dredd is the spiritual successor to The Man With No Name, a futuristic Clint Eastwood strapped to a crotch rocket, and a hard-on for divvying out the law. Such a strong character needs a capable actor to deliver the goods on screen. The comic publishing company 2000AD is the home of Judge Dredd. Thankfully Lionsgate’s 2012 big screen adaptation gave us Thor Ragnorak’s Karl Urban sporting his Lawgiver as he prowled through Mega City One. 2012’s Dredd gave fans there most accurate portrayal of Mega City one to grace the big screen.

Recently Karl Urban attended Dallas Fan Days 2018 to share some insight into how he shaped the onscreen character before strapping on Dredd’s iconic armor. Check out Dredd’s quote below.

“I took [the comics] intravenously. Yeah, I didn’t read many comics when I was a kid.But Dredd was one of the ones that I didn’t read and, when I got the role, I went and bought every Judge Dredd comic that I could find and made a journal and photocopied. This is how kinda sacrilegiously those comics were to me. I wouldn’t even cut them out, I would photocopy panels that were of interest and include them. Some of those lines made it into the movie. I always looked to the comic for guidance. Dredd’s voice was described in one of the comics as being like a saw cutting though bone. That was my interpretation of that. Excellent description written in the comics.

RELATED – Karl Urban Says Alex Garland Directed Dredd

Urban certainly did the research necessary. Too bad the film wasn’t the financial smash the filmmakers had hoped as we’d certainly have had a solid follow up. What do you folks think of the effort Urban put into bringing Dredd to life?

Don’t forget to share this post on your Facebook wall and with your Twitter followers! Just hit the buttons on the top of this page.

  FOR FANBOYS, BY FANBOYS Have you checked out LRM Online’s official podcasts and videos on The Genreverse Podcast Network? Available on YouTube and all your favorite podcast apps, This multimedia empire includes The Daily CoG, Breaking Geek Radio: The Podcast, GeekScholars Movie News, Anime-Versal Review Podcast, and our Star Wars dedicated podcast The Cantina. Check it out by listening on all your favorite podcast apps, or watching on YouTube! Subscribe on: Apple Podcasts |  Spotify |  SoundCloud | Stitcher | Google Play