'Dredd 3D' 17 More Stills Starring Karl Urban (PICTURES)

PICTURES: 17 Stills From Dredd 3D

17 new photos fromDredd 3D have been released, showing Karl Urban, Olivia Thirlby and Lena Headey in action.

The futuristic action film, directed by Pete Travis (Vantage Point) and written by Alex Garland (28 Days Later), is a completely new adaptation of the 2000AD comics story and is not connected to the poorly-received 1995 film, Judge Dredd, starring Sylvester Stallone.

Urban (JJ Abrams' Star Trek) stars as Judge Dredd, Thirlby (Juno) as the rookie Judge Anderson, and Lena Headey (300) as the villain, Madeline Madrigal, in a city where the police have the authority to act as judge, jury and executioner.

The film's blurb reads:

DREDD takes us to the wild streets of Mega City One, the lone oasis of quasi-civilization on Cursed Earth. Judge Dredd (Karl Urban) is the most feared of elite Street Judges, with the power to enforce the law, sentence offenders and execute them on the spot – if necessary.

The endlessly inventive mind of writer Alex Garland and the frenetic vision of director Peter Travis bring DREDD to life as a futuristic neo-noir action film that returns the celebrated character to the dark, visceral incarnation from John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra's revered comic strip.

PHOTOS: Check out the stills here...