Actor Karl Urban says that filmmaker Alex Garland “actually directed” his cult comic book movie Dredd, in addition to serving as the adaptation’s screenwriter.
A huge part of the success of DREDD is in fact due to Alex Garland and what a lot of people don’t realize is that Alex Garland actually directed that movie.
While Stallone’s Judge Dredd was a critical/commercial disappointment upon its initial release, Dredd won the favor of critics when it opened in theaters in 2012.
I just hope when people think of Alex Garland’s filmography that DREDD is the first film that he made before Ex Machina.