If Joel Silver gets his way, and we reckon that probably happens quite a lot, he may well have found the man to direct his long-gestating adaptation of comic-book solider boy Sgt. Rock.
Having worked with Guy Ritchie on his upcoming RocknRolla, the uber producer believes Mr Madonna is the right man to make DC’s military man into a movie.
If Ritchie, who recently created his own comic book line with The Gamekeeper, manages to get the World War II-based hero’s movie off the ground it’ll be something of a major achievement as the idea has been rattling around in development hell for a number of years now.
In the late 1980s, Arnold Schwarzenegger was attached to the role (despite the incongruity of an Austrian actor playing an American G.I.) and screenplays were written by John Milius and David Peoples.When all that fell by the wayside, Joel Silver picked up the reigns with a John Cox screenplay but until now the project failed to move forward.
We reckon that Ritchie could well have the stones to pull this off. He’s adept at directing macho types and as long as he tones down the flashy Lock, Stock-style visuals he could well churn out a decent adaptation – just as long as he doesn’t cast Jason Statham as the eponymous infantryman, we love him but that boy just can't do an American accent.