And I always wanted to do a movie with a character in that series called Rogue Trooper.
"I suppose the one that always comes back to me is, in the U.K. "I've never been like a massive comic book fan," he started. Now, he tells CBR that 2000 A.D.'s Rogue Trooper is a character he would love to take a crack at.
Of course, long before adapting Big Red, Marshall directed horror movies like Dog Soldiers and The Descent, as well as episodes of TV shows like Constantine, Hannibal, and Game of Thrones. Director Neil Marshall was at the helm, and while studio interference was said to be a factor, comic book fans were mostly unhappy with the filmmaker's vision for the character. Inward investment in just the film space reached £1.7bn ($2.19bn) in 2016, while the UK’s film, high-end TV, video games, animation and children’s TV sector generated a combined economic contribution to the UK economy of £7.9 billion ($10.17bn).2019's Hellboy reboot has 18% on Rotten Tomatoes and earned only $55.1 million on a $50 million budget. The UK is experiencing a boom in film and TV production. The company claims the facility will create up to 500 new jobs in the UK in the coming years and that Rebellion is holding talks with US film studios in December to introduce them to the project. Rebellion founders Jason Kingsley and Chris Kingsley were also producers on the 2012 feature film Dredd and set up Rebellion Productions in 2017 to develop and produce film and TV based on the company’s IP.Īccording to Rebellion, the site only needs remedial works to become ready to host film shoots, with the building already featuring heating, lighting, high-speed internet, and soundproofing – these are scheduled to be completed by the first quarter of 2019. The latter outfit has been involved in UK-shot tentpole productions including World War Z and Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows. Rebellion already own a three-stage studio space in Oxford, which is home to Europe’s largest performance capture stage and Rebellion’s subsidiary motion-capture company Audiomotion. The first productions into the new space will be Rebellion’s own Judge Dredd TV sci-fi drama Mega-City One and the future-war feature Rogue Trooper, set to be directed by Duncan Jones ( Moon).
The site will also feature full production and post-production office space.
The largest existing spot will be converted into a 25,000 sq ft sound stage which will be able to accommodate shoots from TV drama to large-scale Hollywood productions.
Rebellion says the site, which it claims amounts to a value of $100m when the land, pre-existing building and improvement works are taken into consideration, is virtually ready-made for film production, already featuring a significantly large sound-proofed space that will take minimal work to upgrade. The site, formerly the Hamsworth Print Works in Didcot, 20 minutes’ drive from Oxford, was a printing press used by the Daily Mail newspaper until November 2016. The project is being steered by video game and comic book publishing company Rebellion, the outfit which owns the 2000 AD comic book IP including the Judge Dredd franchise, which has purchased a 220,000 sq ft facility to convert into a production studio.