Sgt. Rock was never on my reading list in all my days as an avid comic collector. I just didnt get the translation of military war stories onto the newsprint pages of comic books. But then I didn’t see the appeal of Archies either. Now Joel Silver has spearheaded this title onto the silver screen.
Uberproducer Joel Silver has been working on getting Rock a field promotion for the better part of 20 years. IGN chatted with Dark Castle VP David Gambino, who explains that the difficulty in bringing it to theaters is finding the right guy for the stripes (“There’s not a lot of guys out there who can really step into the shoes, put a helmet on, and be a real tough guy”), and the challenge of shooting a big-screen war flick without creating a budgetary black hole.
I honestly dont see the big deal of making Sgt Rock into a movie. How will this be any different than any other War era military movie?
The comics was canceled after 422 issues so I can’t imagine it will be short of stories to choose from, and maybe if the Governator doesn’t keep getting elected he can be considered for the role like he was the last time they tried to get this movie off the ground in the late 80s.
