Indie starlet Olivia Thirlby has been booked to star in director Pete Travis’ (Vantage Point) adaptation of the U.K.’s Judge Dredd comic series. Thirlby will play Dredd’s telepathic rookie partner Judge Cassandra Anderson.

The film—entitled Dredd—stars Karl Urban in the titular role and is written by Alex Garland (28 Days Later). Unlike the 1995 Sly Stallone vehicle, Dredd aims to be grittier and more faithful to the source material.

The official synopsis 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 Pete 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.

Dredd is budgeted at $45 million and will be shot in 3D. Cameras are set to roll later this year in South Africa.

Thirlby also stars in producer Timur Bekmambetov sci-fi thriller The Darkest Hour.

A gleefully gory and just plain fucked up trailer for newcomer Jason Eisener’s eagerly anticipated bloodbath actioner Hobo with a Shotgun has hit the web. The film stars iconic mofo Rutger Hauer as a homeless Travis Bickle-type out to wash the trash off the sidewalk with some buckshot.

Take a look, scumbags:

The film’s synopsis reads:

A vigilante homeless man pulls into a new city and finds himself trapped in urban chaos, a city where crime rules and where the city’s crime boss reigns.

Seeing an urban landscape filled with armed robbers, corrupt cops, abused prostitutes and even a pedophile Santa, the Hobo goes about bringing justice to the city the best way he knows how – with a 20-gauge shotgun.

Mayhem ensues when he tries to make things better for the future generation. Street justice will indeed prevail.

Like Robert Rodriguez’s Machete, Hobo with a Shotgun was first produced as a faux-trailer in 2007 by Eisener for a SXSW competition held to promote Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s collaborate effort Grindhouse.