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Duncan Jones Rogue Trooper film production

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Director Duncan Jones has completed his long-term project to adapt the 2000 AD comic strip ‘Rogue Trooper’ into an R-rated animated science fiction film. The production, which Jones has been developing for over two decades, took more than four years to produce and utilized a combination of motion-capture, Unreal Engine 5, Maya, hand animation, and virtual production tools such as ‘The Volume’ to achieve a cinematic quality with a noted “video game-like aesthetic”. Following its world premiere at the Annecy International Animation Film ~~Festival, the film held~~ Festival and its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film ~~Festival.~~ Festival, the film has continued its festival circuit. Most recently, Jones returned to the Sitges Film Festival with the production. Set on the chemically poisoned planet Nu-Earth, the story follows a genetically engineered super soldier known as a ‘Genetic Infantryman’. The protagonist, G.I. ~~19,~~ 19 (voiced by Aneurin Barnard), is the sole human survivor of a massacre and seeks to hunt down a traitor who betrayed his squad. He carries the digital consciousness of ~~his~~ three fallen comrades, which are embedded into his ~~equipment,~~ equipment as ‘bio-chips’, including his gun, helmet, and knapsack. The film features a British voice cast including Jack Lowden, ~~Aneurin Barnard,~~ Hayley Atwell, and Sean Bean. Jones noted that the original creators of the comic, Gerry Finley-Day and Dave Gibbons, approved of the adaptation. Jones is currently seeking a theatrical distributor to secure a cinema release before the film transitions to streaming services.

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