Sgt. Rock is one of those movies that has been talked about for a long time. We hear about a little progress here and there, but for the most part the project has been sitting in limbo. Movie Blog reader Jared gave me the heads up on an interview the guys over at AICN did with mega producer Joel Silver and the topic of Sgt. Rock came up. Sounds like things are moving along with Guy Ritchie attached:
Moriarty: But you do that with properties. You stick by them, like SGT. ROCK. You have developed that for a long time now…
Joel: I’m going to make that. I’m going to make that very soon. With Guy Ritchie, I think.
Moriarty: Really?!
Joel: I hope so.
I would personally love to see Guy Ritchie take this thing on. His style is one of my favorites amongst all directors working today. I still get a huge idiot grin on my face whenever I even think about “Snatch”.
The one concern I have is that like Silver’s other project, Speed Racer, Sgt. Rock looks on the outside to be a project that will rely on its pre-existing audience… but I don’t know that it has enough of a following (or even people that have heard of it) to make it viable. Hard to say really. Personally I’d love to see it.
