“Every day, I come by your house and I pick you up.

[Potato]

Duncan Jones directing.

Animated in Unreal Engine 5.

Will be interesting to see how a video game engine handles a feature film.

Aneurin Barnard, who previously starred in The Goldfinch and Dunkirk, plays the titular Rogue Trooper, a blue-skinned, genetically-engineered soldier fighting on the toxic battlefields of a seemingly never-ending war. The sole survivor of a massacre that killed his squadmates, he’s on the hunt for the traitor that arranged their deaths. He does this with the aid of three of his killed-in-action squadmates, whose digital personalities still remain conscious after death and are uploaded into Rogue’s gun, helmet, and backpack.

Barnard is the only cast member whose role we know, and so as of yet it’s unclear who will play his squadmates and his traitorous nemesis. But the actor will be joined by Hayley Atwell (of Peggy Carter in the MCU fame, as well as Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning) and Jack Lowden (Slow Horses, Dunkirk) in what we expect to be significant roles.

Joining the trio is Daryl McCormack (Bad Sisters, Peaky Blinders) and Reece Shearsmith (Saltburn, Inside No. 9). The rest of the ensemble include a variety of surprising names, including Jemaine Clement (Flight of the Conchords, Avatar: The Way of Water), Matt Berry (What We Do in the Shadows), Diane Morgan (Cunk on Earth), Alice Lowe (Black Mirror, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace), Asa Butterfield (Sex Education, Hugo) and Sean Bean (Game of Thrones, The Lord of the Rings). It's a cast stacked with British (and New Zealand) gems.

Discussing the software, producer Stuart Fenegan said, “The advancements in Unreal Engine 5 and the inclusion of MetaHuman rigs mean that it is now possible to achieve a very high standard of animation within an indie budget. Working with our amazing partners at Rebellion, Epic and Treehouse Digital we are pioneering and developing a new creative pipeline that will enable independent production of CG animated films.”