US EditionRogue Trooper brings the Genetic Infantry to the silver screen
- The first teaser trailer for Rogue Trooper debuted, showcasing visuals powered by Unreal Engine. Director Duncan Jones adapted the long-running 2000 AD comic, which he describes as "essentially the Marvel/DC of the UK."
- Based on the 2000 AD strip, the film follows the Rogue Trooper , a soldier with military skills transferred onto a microchip. He navigates enemy lines with his platoon: Gunnar , Bagman , and Helm .
- Production has spanned years, with Liberty Films issuing a wrap announcement in December 2023. To avoid looking like a video game, the team utilized hand animation rather than raw motion capture to bring characters to life.
- Stuart Fenegan, alongside producers Jason Kingsley and Chris Kingsley, assembled a cast including Diane Morgan as Colonel Logan and Hayley Atwell as Venus Bluegenes. The team brought a distinct European sensibility to the adaptation.
- The film is expected later this year; Fenegan noted they were "tinkering with it, adding a few very last-minute bells and whistles" to complete the project. This marks Jones's return to filmmaking since 2018's Mute.
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Rogue Trooper brings the Genetic Infantry to the silver screen
For more than 49 years, a comic called 2000 AD has been responsible for giving science-fiction junkies a weekly infusion of "thrill power." Published in the UK, far from the action in Hollywood, its characters have crossed over from the page to the screen far less frequently than the superheroes belonging to Marvel and DC. Judge Dredd has two movies of varying quality, but attempts to follow the 2012 version with a TV show appear to have sputter…
More 2000AD films hinted as wraps come off Duncan Jones’ Rogue Trooper
The trailer for Duncan Jones’ Rogue Trooper film lands, and there’s hope for more films from the pages of 2000AD to follow. A trailer landed yesterday for the first in what might be a line of films based on strips from the legendary British comic, 2000AD. That’s the worst opening sentence I could have written to make sure this story gets picked up by Google and other evil scrapers of our material, but so be it. We’re drilled to mention the name …
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