Duncan Jones, director of the 2016 Warcraft movie – as well Moon, Source Code, and this year’s Mute – has announced that he’s working on a film adaptation of the classic sci-fi Rogue Trooper series.
Rogue Trooper, which charts the adventures of a genetically engineered super-soldier, has inspired four video games over the last three decades – an isometric 8-bit shooter, a 16-bit platformer, and a 2006 action-adventure (plus its 2017 remaster). However, it started life as a series created by Gerry Finley-Day and Dave Gibbons, in the British sci-fi comic 2000 AD.
Jones first teased an upcoming Rogue Trooper movie yesterday, with a short, and slightly peculiar video that culminated in the reveal of a blue mohawk haircut – as sported by the series’ main protagonist Rogue. Jones then officially confirmed the news today, tweeting that he was, “incredibly excited” to reveal his involvement in a Rogue Trooper adaption.
Source: Eurogamer Warcraft movie director Duncan Jones is making a Rogue Trooper film