Hayley Atwell, Aneurin Barnard, and Jack Lowden have joined the cast of Rogue Trooper, a new animated sci-fi movie written and directed by Duncan Jones.
Per Variety, Jones’ Rogue Trooper has added Atwell (Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, Captain America: The First Avenger), Barnard (Dunkirk, 1899), and Lowden (Small Axe, Slow Horses) to its cast.
The movie, which is based on 2000 AD’s comic book series by Gerry Finley-Day and Dave Gibbons, will be animated and made with Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 5.
Jones also revealed an image from the movie on Twitter, which can be viewed below:
Who else stars in Rogue Trooper?
The cast of Rogue Trooper also includes Daryl McCormack, Reece Shearsmith, Jemaine Clement, Matt Berry, Diane Morgan, Alice Lowe, Asa Butterfield, and Sean Bean.
The synopsis for the Rogue Trooper comic series reads, “He is the ultimate future warrior: the Rogue Trooper is the lone genetically-engineered soldier stalking the poisonous, war-torn landscape of Nu-Earth. With him travel three of his dead comrades – Helm, Gunnar, and Bagman – their personalities transferred into bio-chips implanted into his rifle, helmet, and backpack. Their mission: hunt down the man who betrayed them!”
Jones made his feature film directorial debut in 2009 with Moon, which starred Sam Rockwell. Following that, he made the Jake Gyllenhaal-led Source Code in 2011, Warcraft in 2016, and Mute (which served as a spiritual sequel to Moon) in 2018.
“2000 AD offers a very different flavor of comic action: Political and brutal at times, but always with a Pythonesque twinkle in the eye,” Jones said of Rogue Trooper. “[2012’s] Dreddwas 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.”
Rogue Trooper is produced by Jones, Stuart Fenegan, Jason Kingsley, and Chris Kingsley. A release date for the movie has not yet been set.
