Comics legend Grant Morrison reveals he’s working on the script
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An almost throwaway line in a Daily Record interview with Scottish comic writer-turned-scriptwriter Grant Morrison reveals a snippet of news that can happily be file under very exciting indeed.
Okay, it’s early days yet, and many things could derail the project long before it gets anywhere near the cameras, but it seem that Morrison (Batman RIP, The Invisibles, Animal Man, the newly relaunched Action Comics) is writing the script for a Rogue Trooper movie, based on the iconic blue-faced, genetically enhanced soldier with microchips for buddies from the pages of classic 2000AD.
The script is being written for Sam Worthington’s production company, Full Clip Productions.
Rogue Trooper was created by writer Gerry Finley-Day and artist Dave Gibbons, first appearing in 2000AD prog 228 in 1981. And he’s been ripe for a live action conversion ever since. Morrison, however, has never written for the character in comic strip form, but we don’t doubt he a great man to a movie version the justice it deserves.
Morrison also reveals that, “I’ve just finished the second draft of the Dinosaurs Vs Aliens movie,” referring to the project he is developing with Men In Black and Addams Family director Barry Sonnenfeld. “It’s what it kind of says on the tin. What would happen if aliens arrived when dinosaurs were on earth? Barry had said he wanted a comic book version of the story – and the whole thing built towards the film.” The dinosaurs are apparently the protagonists of the story. And it can’t be worse than Cowboys Vs Aliens, surely? Oh hang on, Sonnenfeld also gave us Wild, Wild West.
Source: SFX
http://media.sfx.co.uk/files/2011/10/Rogue_Trooper-031011.jpg
An almost throwaway line in a Daily Record interview with Scottish comic writer-turned-scriptwriter Grant Morrison reveals a snippet of news that can happily be file under very exciting indeed.
Okay, it’s early days yet, and many things could derail the project long before it gets anywhere near the cameras, but it seem that Morrison (Batman RIP, The Invisibles, Animal Man, the newly relaunched Action Comics) is writing the script for a Rogue Trooper movie, based on the iconic blue-faced, genetically enhanced soldier with microchips for buddies from the pages of classic 2000AD.
The script is being written for Sam Worthington’s production company, Full Clip Productions.
Rogue Trooper was created by writer Gerry Finley-Day and artist Dave Gibbons, first appearing in 2000AD prog 228 in 1981. And he’s been ripe for a live action conversion ever since. Morrison, however, has never written for the character in comic strip form, but we don’t doubt he a great man to a movie version the justice it deserves.
Morrison also reveals that, “I’ve just finished the second draft of the Dinosaurs Vs Aliens movie,” referring to the project he is developing with Men In Black and Addams Family director Barry Sonnenfeld. “It’s what it kind of says on the tin. What would happen if aliens arrived when dinosaurs were on earth? Barry had said he wanted a comic book version of the story – and the whole thing built towards the film.” The dinosaurs are apparently the protagonists of the story. And it can’t be worse than Cowboys Vs Aliens, surely? Oh hang on, Sonnenfeld also gave us Wild, Wild West.
Source: SFX