Joel Silver, flush with the success of V For Vendetta (well, maybe not flush, but at least pretty happy) is taking charge of another comics property.
Sgt Rock is a World War Two-based adventure series that kicked off in a 1959 issue of DC’s Our Army At War. But he became so popular that the company renamed the title after him in 1977 and it ran until 1988.
The film has been slowly chugging through the development minefield at Warner Brothers, with such notable names as LA Confidential’s Brian Helgeland, John Milius, David Peoples and Steve De Souza (Judge Dredd) having fallen in the line of duty while trying to adapt the comic.
John Cox is the latest writer to sign up – and he’s working from a treatment by Danny Bilson and Paul De Meo, who were responsible writing The Rocketeer back in 1991.