Fuck Yeah, Grant Morrison!

2000adonline:

Now if this is true (and I know nothing about this one way or another), then it could be quite something:

Grant Morrison To Write Rogue Trooper Movie

Hidden in a piece for the Daily Record, comes the news that after Grant Morrison has finished writing the DinoGsaurs Vs Aliens movie for Barry Sonnenfied, he’ll be writing a movie based on the 2000AD comic character created by Gerry Finley-Day and Dave Gibbons in 1982, Rogue Trooper.

The lead character, Rogue, is a futuristic gentically modified soldier grown as much as he is trained into the role, acccompanied by three sentient computers, each with the personality of a different, deceased soldier. These are manifest as his gun, backpack and helmet.

After Judge Dredd, Rogue is probably 2000AD’s most popular character. I can hear Simon Pegg screaming at this moment, desperare for a part.

However the odds are that Sam Wothington wll be up for the role, as it his his company that is working on the project – Full Clip Production, who were previously attached to comics-to-film project, Damaged and Last Days Of American Crime. Will he go back in the blue?

The quote from the Daily Record piece:

Indeed, after he’s put the finishing touches to the Dinosaurs vs Aliens script, a prolific Grant is creating a movie adaptation for Sam Worthington’s company.

Called Rogue Trooper, the project is based on a character from the popular British comic book series 2000AD.

Not much to go on but… oh boy, I might need to instal new thrill-buffers.

And Sam Worthington? Would he make a good Rogue? Hell he has already appeared in a film called Rogue.