Sgt. Rock film to be set in the future
According to The Hollywood Reporter, director Guy Ritchie left the “Sgt. Rock” project for another DC project, Lobo. This cleared the way for “I Am Legend” director Francis Lawrence. Joel Silver and Akiva Goldsman are set to direct. The film, which has been in development for 20 years and at one time was to star Arnold Schwartzenegger, was to focus on the leader of Easy Company during World War II.
But scuttlebutt in the Reporter article is that WWII films don’t do big box-office, so the film will instead be set in the future.
I really can’t at this moment get excited about it. I mean, we’ve had some pretty good Sgt. Rock comics lately, like Billy Tucci’s “Sgt. Rock: The Last Battalion” and “Sgt. Rock: The Prophecy” and “Sgt. Rock: Between Hell and a Hard Place.”
So naturally what you want to do with DC’s most realistic war character is take him and send him to the future. Maybe they’ll come up with a great take, but at the moment my interest has waned.
- Matt Price
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