picture in picture  FF2012: 'Dredd' Heads  Alex Garland and Karl
Urban talk politics and hard R comic adaptations  By Richard
Whittaker, 5:14PM, Sun. Sep. 23, 2012  Into a grimy future: Karl
Urban in 'Dredd 3D'  As judge, jury and executioner, comics
anti-hero Judge Dredd seems like a someone who'll shoot the bad
guy in the head for no reason. "Not for no reason," says Karl
Urban, who gets to don the iconic helmet for the new Dredd 3D.
It's a hard-R take on the mythology of the ultimate, unrelenting
future cop. Over the years, the character has had to contend
with some cartoonish elements (he was lumbered with a lisping
mechanical sidekick for years called Walter the Wobot). But this
new cinematic outing cuts out all the frivolousness, and heads
straight for the jugular. Often with a heart-seeking high-
explosive round.  "That's just the way I like telling stories,"
said script writer Alex Garland. "I work in genre but I play it
straight. I'm not into high camp like The Fifth Element or the
previous Dredd mov