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“That ability is exciting,” said Fletcher. He will also develop and produce projects in-house, as seen with School’s Out Forever. Rebellion fully funded the £1m feature, which it also produced and will self-distribute.įletcher said he is exploring Rebellion’s key videogame franchises, including Sniper Elite and Zombie Army, as well as the library of contemporary fiction within publishing labels Abaddon and Solaris. The post-apocalyptic thriller is based on a book in the Afterblight Chronicles, published by Rebellion’s Abaddon Books, and has been written and directed by Oliver Milburn. More recently, Rebellion produced its first in-house feature, School’s Out Forever, which is set to receive a digital release on February 15. It also owns VFX and motion-capture facility Audiomotion, which has worked on titles including Ready Player One. The firm acquired a $100m, 220,000-sq-ft facility in Didcot – 50 miles west of London and close to its Oxford headquarters – in 2018 and has since converted the space into a film studio.
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Under its Rebellion Productions banner, it is developing projects including comic-book adaptation Rogue Trooper with Duncan Jones and TV series Mega-City One, set in the world of Judge Dredd. His new appointment marks a growing focus on film and TV for Rebellion, which has spent recent years building its industry presence.
Rebellion also owns publishing companies and the former IPC Comic Archive, with characters like Roy of the Rovers, so we are now working through that library and working out what has the potential to reboot.” There’s a whole series of interesting characters and stories. “Rebellion owns a vast wealth of IP, which is partly based on its acquisition of the 2000 AD library” said Fletcher. Fletcher stepped down in August 2019 and the company has since ceased distribution in the UK. Edward Fletcher, former managing director of UK distributor Thunderbird Releasing, is spearheading an ambitious move into film for Judge Dredd owner Rebellion, which includes the acquisition of distribution servicing company Central City Media.įletcher has been named head of film and TV, acquisitions, sales and distribution at the independent UK outfit, which publishes video games, books and comics, and owns the 2000 AD franchise.įletcher founded distributor Soda Pictures with Eve Gabereau in 2002 and continued to lead the firm after it was acquired by Canadian company Thunderbird Films in 2014.