We’ve got our first look at Nu Earth and it’s beautiful in the best of ways. Duncan Jones, director of Moon, Source Code, Warcraft and Mute, is no stranger to making bad futures look good and his animated Rogue Trooper movie is looking incredible. Alasdair Stuart sets the scene…

Rogue Trooper is one of UK sci-fi comic 2000AD’s most iconic characters. 19 is a Genetic Infantryman or ‘GI’, a genetically enhanced super soldier who is hot dropped onto Nu Earth along with his squad mates. They’re betrayed and slaughtered, with 19, now nicknamed Rogue, the only living survivor. However. GIs are very hard to kill and their minds are saved on biochips located in their skulls. If a GI is killed, and their friends are fast enough, these chips can be plugged into GI hardware and kept aware long enough to be recovered and put in a new grown body. Rogue is able to save three friends – Gunnar, Bagman and Helm – and their chips are placed in his rifle, backpack and helmet as he sets off across Nu Earth to find justice for their fallen comrades.

It’s a fun time, and a classic for a reason. I’d recommend starting with GD Wessel’s Rogue work, especially Souther Belle, which runs from Prog 2306.

We’ve got four stills from the movie, including a first look at Aneurin Barnard (The Goldfinch and Dunkirk) as Rogue and Matt Berry (What We Do In The Shadows) and Jemaine Clement (oddly, also What We Do In The Shadows, both versions actually both in front and behind the camera) as battleground looters Mr Brass and Mr Bland. That shot has Rogue in the background looking at a painting of what seems to be the two looters.

We also have a shot of Clement and Berry in their facial capture technology and an outside view of what may be their enormous land crawler on a dingy Nu Earth morning.  Finally we’ve got two Souther soldiers, lost in the wastes of the war planet.

Other cast includes Hayley Atwell (Captain America: The First Avenger, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One and Part Two), Jack Lowden (Slow Horses, Dunkirk), Daryl McCormack (Bad Sisters; Good Luck To You, Leo Grande), and Reece Shearsmith (Inside No. 9, Saltburn), Diane Morgan (Cunk on Earth), Alice Lowe (Black Mirror), Asa Butterfield (Sex Education, Hugo) and Sean Bean (Game of Thrones, The Lord of the Rings).

The movie looks remarkable, and Jones has confirmed that they’ll be at SDCC this year so we’re about to get a lot more of a look at it.

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