The new Rogue Trooper poster by Paolo Rivera, for Duncan Jones’ upcoming movie, has been revealed, and, honestly, it feels like it’s time-travelled in from a completely different era of movie marketing, the good one, where posters were hand-painted, weirdly dramatic, and sometimes better than the films they were selling.
It’s the perfect fit for the film’s comic book roots, one I’ve loved since reading 2000AD in the early ‘80s, and shows how even a film being made in Unreal Engine 5 can tap into its pulpy papery roots. With its bold shapes, loose brushwork, and muted colour palette, the poster feels perfectly handmade rather than composited from 20 layers in Photoshop, and leans hard toward classic movie-poster illustration.
