After an eight‑year gap since Mute (2018), British director Duncan Jones makes a bold comeback with Rogue Trooper, an animated military sci‑fi that debuted at the Annecy Festival.”
Reviews from Deadline, The Wrap, and Screen highlight Rogue Trooper as a triumphant return for Duncan Jones, with some outlets offering mixed reactions but the consensus leaning positive.”
According to TheWrap, it is being called one of Jones’ most intriguing and surprising films. Meanwhile, Deadline describes it as a must-see animated war movie, comparing it to Starship Troopers.
For his directorial debut, Moon (2009), Duncan Jones earned a BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut. The psychological sci-fi film starred Sam Rockwell and established Jones as a distinctive new voice in science fiction. He later directed the sci-fi action thriller Source Code (2011), the big-budget fantasy epic Warcraft (2016), based on Blizzard Entertainment’s popular video-game franchise, and the Netflix neo-noir mystery Mute (2018).
Based on the cult 2000 AD comic, Rogue Trooper marks a bold and risky comeback, according to Duncan Jones. Using real-time animation technology in Unreal Engine 5, Jones reportedly reduced the production budget from a typical $60–80 million to around $10–20 million.
Filmed in 2023 and already showing off a trailer, the movie is still waiting to land a U.S. release deal.
