The Rogue Trooper movie’s release date marks the big screen debut of a sci-fi strip from the UK’s long-running 2000 AD comic. Below, we break down everything known so far about the Rogue Trooper movie’s release date, cast, budget, story, and the latest updates from its makers.
Written and directed by Duncan Jones, the Rogue Trooper movie explores a universe in which the skills and personalities of soldiers can be stored on microchips and passed onto new hosts, both human and object.
Rogue Trooper Movie Release Date
The Rogue Trooper movie doesn’t yet have an exact release date, but is “coming soon-ish,” according to a teaser trailer from April 2026. For now we’re placing it as TBA, but we expect it to release in early 2027.
- Rogue Trooper movie release date: TBA
Rogue Trooper Movie Budget
The Rogue Trooper Movie’s budget hasn’t been officially confirmed, but it will likely fall somewhere on the lower end. The Deadline interview which revealed the project described it as a “return to [director Duncan Jones’] low-budget, indie roots.”
Jones himself went on to say that the approach used to make the Rogue Trooper movie “does open up the opportunity to do some things at this scale on a UK indie budget.”
Rogue Trooper Movie Story
Based on the 2000 comic series created by Gerry Finley-Day and Dave Gibbons, the Rogue Trooper movie’s story follows protagonist 19, “a ‘Genetic Infantryman’, who finds himself the sole-survivor of an invasion force.”
The super soldier sets off to “track down the traitor who sold him and his comrades out,” while being “accompanied by three killed-in-action squad mates, whose personalities have been stored in his gun, helmet and backpack.”
Rogue Trooper Movie Cast
The first details regarding the Rogue Trooper movie’s cast come from its official website and the Deadline interview linked above, which confirm the following actors as involved in the project:
- Aneurin Barnard – Rogue Trooper/19
- Jack Lowden – Gunnar (rifle)
- Daryl McCormack – Helm (helmet)
- Reece Shearsmith – Bagman (backpack)
- Ade Edmonson – A pair of boots (cameo)
- Hayley Atwell
- Jemaine Clement
- Matt Berry
- Diane Morgan
- Alice Lowe
- Asa Butterfield
- Sean Bean
Rogue Trooper Movie Trailers
You’ll find the Rogue Trooper movie trailers shared so far below. More footage will likely be shared in the future on Rebellion’s YouTube channel.
Rogue Trooper Movie Coverage
You’ll find our other Rogue Trooper movie coverage added in this section as we publish it.
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