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Olivia Thirlby Says Her Role In DREDD Is Like "Playing Laser Tag But With Huge Production Values"

The actress, who portrays Judge Anderson in the upcoming Pete Travis directed reboot, shared a fairly lengthy interview with Dread Central concerning her role, the feel of the film and more. Check out a few snippets of the interview after the jump...

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By WesleyGibson - 7/18/2012


On what is appealing to Thirlby about the reboot:

The appeal was the amazing script and the amazing character that Alex Garland wrote for this. Dredd didn't read like a normal genre script; the characters felt so real and the circumstances felt so realistic. There's something I really like about the heroes in this film and about this world in general. They are just men and women really; they don't have superhuman strength, or they're not gods from a different planet- they're just really brave and they feel really real to me.


On the differences of the tone in the reboot and Stallone's take:

It is a totally different reimagining of the same source material, but in this version the goal was always to stay very faithful to the comic books, which is in contrast to what the other movie had done. There's a difference in the creative imagining of these worlds, for sure.


On what helped Thirlby get the feel of her character:

It was a combination of things: the suit, the weapons, the ability to do a roundhouse kick and hold my own- all of them. It just feels so cool when you're on set dressed like this; it's like playing laser tag but with huge production values (laughs). Actually, it would take a team of people to get you inside the leather body suits every day, which was crazy. But there is just something about being covered in blood spatter, looking mean and having a sub-machine gun in your hands that's really just so much fun. Oh, and being blonde; that really helped (laughs).


for the full interview, head on over to Dread Central.


Dredd stars Karl Urban, Olivia Thirlby, Lena Headey and is directed by Pete Travis. The film is set to hit theaters September 21st.


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BenderdickCumPatch - 7/18/2012, 5:04 AM
@grif- My sad little teddy bear its called The Dark Knight Rises and I thought you weren't a fan of remakes/reboots?

Strange you would see this instead of TDKR. Shows how bad your film choices are.

But after all, you are a troll so anything you say is invalid.
BenderdickCumPatch - 7/18/2012, 5:08 AM
Oh and I must add for the horny fanboys, she is [frick]ing hot.
BenderdickCumPatch - 7/18/2012, 5:35 AM
Id be on her in 1 second.
INSTANTJUSTICE - 7/18/2012, 5:38 AM
TheGoddamnDeadpool - "Strange you would see this instead of TDKR. Shows how bad your film choices are."




So you've seen Dredd?
BenderdickCumPatch - 7/18/2012, 5:48 AM
@INSTANTJUSTICE- I haven't. I'd rather see TDKR than Dredd. But I'd rather see Dredd than any other CBM coming out after TDKR. Hobbit is the exception.
Fabs - 7/18/2012, 6:23 AM
@Tea: Wait! What?! you mean; there are lines you don't cross!!? hehe :P

@TheGoddamnDeadpool: I'm with Grif. Dredd is an unknown so it's interesting even though there's the possibility it might turn out to be bad. On the other hand I tend to find Nolan's films boring and predictable so yes; what Grif said! :)
Ceejay - 7/18/2012, 6:52 AM
Dredd's hardly an unknown, the comics been around since the 70's and the Stallone movie gave the character all the exposure the comic failed to do in the USA. The point about Dredd is that for most parts people don't give a shit about the character outside of here in the UK.

They should have gone with an animated film instead, this low budget crap looks to have overplayed the violence card in trade for the lack of decent production costs to fully realize the futuristic look of Dredds world. Trying to force-feed it in 3D is a huge mistake, this years Conan the Barbarian is what it has written all over it now!
INSTANTJUSTICE - 7/18/2012, 8:19 AM
Considering the universally positive reviews at ComiCon, eventually reaching out to mainstream mags like Variety and Empire, I'd say Dredd is on its way to a healthy return on its budget.

As for people needing to 'give a shit' about Dredd in other countries, who gave a shit about District 9 or Chronicle before anyone saw them?



"They should have gone with an animated film instead, this low budget crap looks to have overplayed the violence card in trade for the lack of decent production costs to fully realize the futuristic look of Dredds world. Trying to force-feed it in 3D is a huge mistake, this years Conan the Barbarian is what it has written all over it now!" - Ceejay

Clutching at straws there Ceejay, I don't remember Conan getting any good reviews before it came out, do you?

Your analogy just sounds desperate and bitter because they didn't make the film the way you wanted it. Dredd was loved at ComiCon.
musashi - 7/18/2012, 9:17 AM
Some people don't get Grif. The man likes what he likes and he hates what he hates. Either agree or disagree, but you won't change his mind!

"Playing laser tag with huge production values?" Well, not THAT huge! ($45 million)

Looking forward to this. I hope it gets a sequel!
AsianVersionOfET - 7/18/2012, 11:37 AM
grif and anyone who tries to "defend" his pointless comments are [frick]ing retarded. That's it. End of story. By the way this movie looks like Max Payne only worse. And that's not good.
INSTANTJUSTICE - 7/18/2012, 12:56 PM
I never knew Max Payne featured crypto-fascist law-Enforcers and was set in a neo-medieval, post-apocalyptic kritocracy.
dreddhead123 - 7/18/2012, 3:26 PM
"They should have gone with an animated film instead, this low budget crap looks to have overplayed the violence card in trade for the lack of decent production costs to fully realize the futuristic look of Dredds world. Trying to force-feed it in 3D is a huge mistake, this years Conan the Barbarian is what it has written all over it now!"

The sets dressings look very basic. I haven't seen one futuristic interior location. The slo-mo production room looks the only thing close to how I imagine JUDGE DREDD's world to look and even that is hardly the cutting edge of sci-fi type interiors. The interiors look really cheap. There was no effort to try and make it look a bit shiny or sci-fi looking.

The slo-mo makes no sense from a story point of view. As mentioned by someone else - I thought I'd steal his point (lol) - slo-mo means less story. The film is about 95 mins so if you slow down sections you're getting less actual story content!

As for the violence, well, seems desperately cynical. Sure, Judge Dredd's world is violent but do we need slow motion 'face and body ripping apart' stuff to know that it's violent? Nope! This film looks set to establish a new film genre:

Gun porn.

I think Dredd will do better than Conan - the good reviews from Comic Con - might help push up its box office but no-way is this the proper way to do a Judge Dredd film. Heck, the filmmakers can't even be bothered to use the word JUDGE in the title!!!
dreddhead123 - 7/18/2012, 3:37 PM
Also, the uniform in the film is okay but could have been better. The extra padding looks excessive and the collar is daft, sticks out too much. I think "less is more" and the version on the right would have been a better approach and closer to the 2000AD version but still retaining the 'realistic' look:


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