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 ... 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 of the film in question in the first sentence, and the fact the I’ve not said Rogue Trooper yet means I’m rubbish at this.
Anyway, for year and years now work has been underway on a Rogue Trooper movie, that Duncan Jones has been making as his first feature since 2018’s Mute. Made entirely independently, Rogue Trooper has been put together using an unusual visual style, and that’s demonstrated by the first trailer that’s landed. Which looks like this…
Rogue Trooper currently doesn’t have a distributor and is being sold as a pretty much completed independent movie. And chatting to Deadline, Duncan Jones and producer Stuart Fenegan have suggested that the relatively unmined pages of 2000AD could be about to be, well, mined.
As Fenegan told the outlet, “we’re concentrating on releasing this, and then obviously if it’s a success, it would be amazing to continue to play in that style, in that universe.”
Jones added to that, noting that “There’s some really interesting, bizarre stories that are in 2000 AD for those who want to have a play. Again, leaning into the Britishness or at least the Europeanness of 2000AD, I would love to see more British filmmakers come on board and make this a bit of a renaissance for the kinds of British films that we haven’t really ever had the chance to make.”
Job one is clearly to sort out distribution for Rogue Trooper, and presumably now the pathfinding has been done, to try and find a way to get the next film done a little quicker. But for now, the third motion picture ever to come officially from the pages of 2000AD – side eye at Robocop there – is closer than ever.
When and if future films land, I’ll be sure to mention them in the first sentence of the resultant article on this site.
