Merrick here...
We've been hearing rumblings for a while that the magnificently badass and unrelentingly provocative Lena Heady (300, THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES) would appear opposite Karl Urban's "Judge" in DREDD.
The Playlist has now confirmed that Heady will, indeed, appear in the film - playing principal antagonist "Ma-Ma" in the picture. Lena Heady can be my Ma-Ma...sorry...anyway...
The matriarch of a drugs gang, who deals a reality-altering narcotic known as SLO-MO, and who presides despotically over an enormous apartment block called Peach Trees, in which most of the action is set, the character, intriguingly, is described in Garland’s script as being heavily made-up and scarred, in her later 50s/early 60s, and enormously fat. Will Headey be donning a fat suit and prosthetics for the role, or has the character been glammed-up in later drafts?
...says Playlist HERE.
Back in November, we got a first (and promising) look at Urban as the titular character - you can find said picture HERE.
Very curious to see how this project works out - and I do want it to work out. DREDD director Pete Travis brought us VANTAGE POINT back in 2008. I've yet to see that film (for no particular reason), but I porbably should at this point, all things considerd.
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