Sgt. Rock project to be deliberately stalled!

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November 12, 2008


While recently on the set of Guy Ritchie's new Sherlock Holmes film, Joel Silver spilled the beans regarding their adaptation of comic book character Sgt. Rock.

According to the Hollywood heavyweight, the fact that Quentin Tarantino was fast-tracking his own WWII action pic was giving Silver and Ritchie pause for thought.

"Guy did a great job on the script for Sgt. Rock but I think that when Inglorious Bastards was coming together so quickly, it made sense to kind of jump off that and jump onto this, because it was something that was really different and unique."

He continued "Inglorious Bastards is a war movie and I'm looking forward to seeing it, but it's something that was a direct competition to Sgt. Rock so I felt that we should hold off and do that when we can."

The creation of Robert Kanigher and Joe Kubert, Sgt. Rock first appeared in comic book form in 1959, and his WWII adventures leading Easy Company into battle made him a hugely popular DC Comics character.

Ritchie is the latest in a long line of writers to tackle the material, with John Milius (Conan the Barbarian), David Peoples (Twelve Monkeys) and John Cox (the forthcoming Virulents) all having a crack at the script over the last 20 years.