Grant Morrison Creates Rogue Trooper Film

For Mike Worthington's production companyWith all eyes on theincoming Judge Dredd movie, it seems sensible that savvy producers could be searching to legendary British comic 2000AD for more inspiration. Hence this news today that the Rogue Trooper film is within development at Mike Worthington's production company, which cult comics author Grant Morrison (Arkham Asylum, Final Crisis, Superman)reaches focus on the script.Rogue Trooper, as British comics visitors of the certain age knows, is really a blue-skinned "Genetic Infantryman" on the scorched Nu-Earth where South and north are constantly at war. G.I.s' personas could be saved onto "biochips" and submitted into new physiques, and through various eccentricities of circumstance, Rogue's former siblings-in-arms Gunnar, Bagman and Helm presently live in (natch) his gun, his backpack and the helmet, functioning both as his buddies and experts. The strip was produced by Dork Gibbons (Watchmen) and Gerry Finley-Day, and first made an appearance in 2000AD almost 30 years ago.Morrison never authored for that strip, but did provide copious Future Shocks, Zenith, and a number of Dredds, so has lots of 2000AD heritage. This news of the film as well as Worthington and Morrison's participation is hidden inside a Daily Record story that mostly focuses on Dinosaurs versus Aliens, the home that Morrison is presently focusing on with Craig Sonnenfeld. This is an aside so sketchy it does not even include a Morrison quote to support it, so whether Worthington is developing the film having a view to personally slapping around the blue fresh paint remains to appear. We'll provide you with further particulars because they emerge.Meanwhile, tell us the other 2000AD strips you want to see hit the screen. Who's for Strontium Dog? Halo Johnson? Slaine? Shako the Polar Bear?