{"id":40137,"date":"2025-10-02T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=40137"},"modified":"2025-09-30T18:32:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T22:32:53","slug":"dredd-2012-starring-karl-urban-olivia-thirlby-and-lena-headey-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=40137","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Dredd&#8221; (2012) starring Karl Urban, Olivia Thirlby and Lena Headey \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z100225zview_dredd.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Dredd <\/strong><\/em>(2012)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Pete Travis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay:\u00a0 <strong>Alex Garland<\/strong><strong>; <\/strong>based on\u00a0<em>Judge Dredd<\/em> by<strong> John Wagner, Carlos Ezquerra<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Karl Urban, Olivia Thirlby, Lena Headey, Jason Cope, Tamer Burjaq <\/strong>and <strong>Deobia Oparei<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:<em> Judgment is coming<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a dystopian future law officers are given authority to become judge, jury and executioner (as needed).\u00a0 These police are called Judges.\u00a0 The bring law and order to the Mega-City One where 800 million residents eke out a living.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Judge Dredd, a veteran officer is tasked to assess Cassandra Anderson. If Anderson survives the day making appropriate decisions and leving correct setences, she will become a Judge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dredd and Anderson are called to the Peach Tree Towers.\u00a0 There they find three murder victims who had been tortured and skinned before being tossed from one of the 200 storey towers.\u00a0 The Peach Tree Towers are the home base of Madeline &#8220;Ma-Ma&#8221; Madrigal.\u00a0 Ma-Ma is head of a notorius drug cartel.\u00a0 She was sending a message through the torture murders of the three victims.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dredd and Anderson capture one of Ma-Ma&#8217;s soldiers and decide to take him in for questioning.\u00a0 Ma-Ma is not going to let that happen.\u00a0 Ma-Ma and her crew take control of the building&#8217;s security room.\u00a0 They disrupt communications going in or out of the towers.\u00a0 Ma-Ma then lowers the Tower&#8217;s nuclear blast shields.\u00a0 No one is getting in or out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ma-Ma then announces over the Towers communication system that a bounty has been placed on the heads of Dredd and Anderson.\u00a0 Anyone who kills them will be rewarded.\u00a0 Anyone who helps them will, along with their families, be executed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alone and outnumbered, with no help coming, Dredd and Anderson decide to take the fight to Ma-Ma and her cartel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prepare to be judged.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the comics that <em>Judge Dredd<\/em> is based on, Dredd is never seen without his helmet on.\u00a0 Karl Urban refused to take his helmet off for any scenes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although Pete Travis is listed as the director of <em>Dredd<\/em>, many say that Alex Garland directed most of the movie.\u00a0 Karl Urban has stated this as well.<\/p>\n<p>Karl Urban is excellent as Judge Dredd.\u00a0 The same for Lena Headey as Ma-Ma.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Dredd (2012) <\/strong><\/em>(1932) rates 4 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z100225zview_dredd2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"353\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dredd (2012) Director:\u00a0 Pete Travis Screenplay:\u00a0 Alex Garland; based on\u00a0Judge Dredd by John Wagner, Carlos Ezquerra Stars: Karl Urban, Olivia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,56,51,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-comics","category-crime","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40138,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40137\/revisions\/40138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}