Rogue Trooper brings the Genetic Infantry to the silver screen
The future war film, from the director of Moon, is adapted from 2000 AD's comic series.
For more than 49 years, a comic called 2000 AD has been responsible for giving science-fiction junkies a weekly infusion of "thrill power." The series is based in the UK, far from the action in Hollywood, and 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 sputtered out.
But Dredd is not the be-all and end-all of 2000 AD (real ones know he wasn't even in the first issue), and later this year, director Duncan Jones (Moon) will translate another beloved character from the printed page: Rogue Trooper, the teaser for which was released earlier today.
Created by Gerry Finley-Day and Dave Gibbons, Rogue Trooper is a future war story set on the toxic hellscape that is Nu Earth. The planet is fought over by the Southers and the Norts, who have both used so many chemical weapons that the only way to survive on the surface is in an environmental suit. Except for the Genetic Infantry, blue super soldiers engineered by the Southers to survive the poisonous atmosphere.