New Rogue Trooper Film!!

[Trooper McFad]

This is fantastic news 👍🏻👍🏻. Rogue was my first favourite when I was introduced the world of 2000AD. Yes the story lines aren't as varied as Dredd & Jonny but as a possible one off film (would prefer a trilogy in his search for the Traitor General) this could be a great Futuristic shoot em up to introduce a new audience to the world of Tharg and the thrills contained in the pages of the progs.
I hope they don't stray too far from the essence of Rogue & his buddies and try and cram too many nods to characters or stories in his adventures i.e. Stallones  "Judge Dredd" .
Any rumours on time scales or is this just an open ended project?

[Steve Green]

It's not even been officially announced by Rebellion, early days.

Duncan tweeted something along the lines of condensing a childhood favourite last year (I think), if it was that I imagine there's some kind of treatment at least.

[Taryn Tailz]

I hear Scarlett Johansson has a gap in her schedule...

Very well played. 

[DaveGYNWA]

So we're looking for someone who looks good in blue....







And the lads pre-biochip:

[Tjm86]

Didn't Tulio give the Smurfs the Nu-Earth treatment last year?  Or was that a particularly dubious batch of meds?

[JayzusB.Christ]

It's times like this I wish the Mayor were still around, just to read his casting suggestions.  Justin Bieber as the Traitor General, perhaps?

[The Legendary Shark]

Rogue - Idris Elba
Helm - Ricky Gervais
Bagman - Steven Merchant
Gunnar - Karl Pilkington
Traitor General - Richard E Grant
Venus - Uma Thurman
Major Magnum - Schwarzenegger

This is why I don't make films...

[blackmocco]

Would this not be the CGI/quasi animated style of Warcraft?

With Rogue's near-zero brand recognition amongst the general public, I'd expect the budget to be quite a bit smaller than Warcraft's...

And all the better for that, I think. Moon was great. WoW was very much not. Rogue could be done relatively cheaply (compared to the likes of Dredd where an entire city needs to be built every time).

[radiator]

Interesting news, good on Mr Jones!

I'm going to assume this is going to be a fairly low budget indie type deal more along the lines of Moon than Warcraft?

[Beeks]

A little more info on the main website

https://2000ad.com/post/3755

[sheridan]

A little more info on the main website

https://2000ad.com/post/3755

Woo-hoo!  Properly official now!

[hazy efc]

Amazing news a Rouge Trooper film by Duncan Jones wow this could turn out to be something really special, Duncan's film moon is fantastic so I'm super excited to see what he does with the Rouge charcter, and fingers crossed Sam Rockwell turns up somewhere in the film but not as Rouge lol I could definitely see him as the Traitor General though

[wedgeski]

Good! Great! Mr. Jones is a fine director. Blue skin paint will be just fine. War robots are easy CGI and should be nice and cheap. The core revenge story is an easy sell. Can't wait!

[credo]

Rogue - Idris Elba
Helm - Ricky Gervais
Bagman - Steven Merchant
Gunnar - Karl Pilkington
Traitor General - Richard E Grant
Venus - Uma Thurman
Major Magnum - Schwarzenegger

This is why I don't make films...

Rogue as an actor of colour would definitely be a winner for me. Always thought that the combination of US Civil War and WW2 characterisations of the Norts and Southers was an oft-overlooked bit of genius. Both sides are bad guys - the Norts are nasty Nazi torturers, but the Southers sought to conduct their war using what are basically slave soldiers.

The film must have the following: Hoppers, bio-wire, glass zones chem-fog.

[I, Cosh]

Just make the whole thing an adaptation of Fort Neuro and I'll go twice.