By Hayley Atwell (“Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning”), Jack Lowden (“Slow Horses”), Aneurin Barnard (“Dunkirk”) and Reece Shearsmith (“Saltburn”) will lead the cast of the sci-fi film “Rogue Trooper”.
The Rebellion and Liberty Films project hails from “Source Code,” “Moon” and “Warcraft” filmmaker Duncan Jones and whilst originally planned as live-action, it will now be animated with the use of the Unreal Engine 5 gaming engine.
Jones has adapted from Dave Gibbons and Gerry Finley-Day’s 2000 AD comic with filming having just wrapped at Rebellion Film Studios in the U.K. ahead of the film being completed next year.
Sean Bean, Asa Butterfield, Matt Berry, Jemaine Clement, Diane Morgan and Alice Lowe co-star in the film about ’19’, a genetic infantryman and sole-survivor of an invasion force.
Desperate to track down the traitor who sold him and his comrades out, the super soldier is accompanied by three killed-in-action squad mates, whose personalities have been stored in his gun, helmet and rucksack. Jones says in a statement:
“2000 AD offers a very different flavor of comic action: Political and brutal at times, but always with a Pythonesque twinkle in the eye. ‘Dredd’ (2012) was a taste of what 2000 AD has to offer and now we get to show the world another side of the beast. It is a genuine privilege to be given the opportunity to make ‘Rogue Trooper.’”
Treehouse Digital is creating all imagery and animation for the film.
Source: Variety
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