Sgt Rock Moving Ahead – In Time

Sgt Rock and the Easy Company were one of the few true World War 2 based comic books published by DC. He was the first to be called The Rock, and he embodied the true American military hero leading his men of Easy Company. At a time when GI Joe dolls er.. action figures even paid tribute to the character.

So for a while now there has been talk that a Sgt Rock feature film is in development and now Joel Silver will be producing this with Francis Lawrence directing the Chad St John script.

The only difference is that the classic World War 2 military hero won’t be in World War 2.

The Nerdy Bird says:

Silver originally wanted the film to take place in WWII, so what changed? “A big budget always was an obstacle and, ‘Inglourious Basterds’ notwithstanding, period war movies have not been in vogue in Hollywood for years, unless it was a more serious contemplation of the subject like ‘Saving Private Ryan,'” says THR, “The studio hopes moving the time period to the future solves the dilemma.” I have no idea if by “future” they mean now, or 2139.

I don’t understand the need to change the time frame of the character. Clearly the appeal of Sgt Rock wasn’t purely the character. It was the setting as well.

So vampire movies are very much “in vogue” right now, so does that mean they should make Sgt Rock a vamp?

I would sooner have them sit on this until the time is right. They have plenty of other properties to play with that fit the current market, and rather than force the issue and update Sgt Rock. The book was about a man in THAT war, not just a man in a war.

I think it’s more likely that Sgt Rock would fail if it WASN’T set in the early 1940s.

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4 thoughts on “Sgt Rock Moving Ahead – In Time

  1. Should Sgt Rock even be a movie? WW2 is has to be the backdrop, but I wonder if there is a studio out there that would do it justice. A Sgt Rock movie would have to be an anti-war film inorder to stay faithful to the original mood of the comic. I doubt that would fly with the current stance our country is in. Those of us in the military, who know first hand that war shouldn’t be glorified, would probably not feel like sitting through something too realistic. There is a big chunk of the population that have to deal with war everyday either over “there” or back here at home. We worry about ourselvs, friends & family getting deployed. We worry about them and what will happen if we or they don’t come home. We don’t really need to go to the theater to be reminded that war sucks the life out of you.
    Therefore, I think that a studio would take the Sgt Rock idea, twist it, and screw it up until it is nothing but a WW2 version of last summer’s “GI Joe” fiasco. The desire to spit out a BLOCKBUSTER based on Sgt Rock would, in my opinion, be a quick buck for them and they would most likely miss the spark that made the Sgt Rock comic so unique. A director (artist) who loves the old comic and who could wait until the mood of our nation was ready for such a film, needs to do movie. Who and when is up for debate.

  2. I’d love to see a Sgt. Rock film, if they keep the original setting.

    However, I do understand their concerns though. WW2 films may not be the biggest box office grab.

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