Bleeding Cool by way of the Daily Record reports that Grant Morrison will soon be working on adapting the 200AD comic book character,
Rogue Trooper for Sam Worthington's Full Clip Production, who were also attached to comic adaptions of
Damaged and
Last Days of American Crime.
The site also found this quote from Morrison, in which he responds to the notion that Mark Millar is now Scotland's #1 comic book writer. Here's what Grant says:
“Mark does his thing. He creates comic books and tries to sell them as properties, but I write movies. They are different things. I live over in LA and write for the studios. Mark was my protégé for 10 years and has gone on and done stuff. We both do our own thing.”
Hmm. Interesting.
Rogue Trooper is a science fiction strip in the British comic 2000 AD, created by Gerry Finley-Day and Dave Gibbons. It follows the adventures of Rogue, a G.I. (or Genetic Infantryman, a genetically modified, blue-skinned, manufactured elite soldier) and his three comrades' search for the Traitor General. His comrades are in the form of biochips (onto which a G.I.'s entire personality is downloaded at the time of death for later retrieval) and are named Gunnar (mounted on Rogue's rifle), Bagman (on his backpack) and Helm (on his helmet). He is genetically engineered to be immune to almost all known toxins. He can submerge in strong acid unaffected, and is able to withstand a vacuum in his bare skin.
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