Warcraft director Duncan Jones shared the first look at his next project Tuesday, Rogue Trooper. Based on the 2000 AD comics character, the film is notable for being animated in Unreal Engine 5, the video game design tool used to create some of the most popular games of 2025, like Split Fiction and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.
“We are so excited to share a first look of the film and show the amazing fidelity with which the team have used our actors on set performances to drive the animated characters,” producer Stuart Fenegan said in a news release. “That level of detail and nuance was a priority from day one.”
Rogue Trooper will star Aneurin Barnard as the titular character. Hayley Atwell, Sean Bean, and Asa Butterfield will also lend their voices to the project.
Jones’ Rogue Trooper film has been a long time coming. It was first confirmed in 2018, the same year the director’s latest film, Mute, was released. Jones is perhaps best known to gamers as the writer an director of 2016’s Warcraft, based on Blizzard’s series of the same name. At the time, for Polygon, Philip Kollar called Warcraft “just good enough to make me aware of what could have been — and just bad enough to make me despair that it wasn’t.”
The film will follow the “Genetic Infantryman,” originally created by Gerry Finley-Day and Dave Gibbons, “who finds himself the sole-survivor of an invasion force. Desperate to track down the traitor who sold him and his comrades out, the super soldier is accompanied by three killed-in-action squad mates, whose personalities have been stored in his gun, helmet and backpack.” You can check out the first images from the film below.
Rogue Trooper doesn’t have a release date or trailer yet, but expect more news to come out of San Diego Comic-Con next month, as Jones excitedly teased in the news release, “AHHHHHHHHHHHH! WE’RE ALMOST FINISHED! SEE YOU AT SDCC!!”
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