Joel Silver has revealed that the long in gestation Sgt Rock movie (so long in gestation it was an Arnold vehicle long, long before he had a political twinkle in his eye) will leave behind the comics’ traditional WWII setting and instead take place in the near future.
Ugh.
Silver tells the LA Times: “As a war movie, it’s not going to be ‘where it’s been,’ it’s going to be ‘where it’s going.’ We didn’t want to do Iraq, we didn’t want to do a contemporary war. We wanted to do a sort of futuristic war. It’s pretty strong.”
The Times speculates that Inglorious Basterds hit the Sgt Rock aesthetic a little too much, but if that’s the case this decision is bonkers. First of all, Basterds did well, so it seems there’s an audience for this. Second of all, Basterds was missing most of the big war action that would be integral to a Sgt Rock movie. While I think Basterds is not just Tarantino’s best film but one of the best movies made for the last decade or two, it didn’t quite deliver on the men on a mission action many fans expected. A Rock movie would deliver that.
Maybe Joel Silver is just buckling under the pressure of developing this movie for two goddamned decades. A Sgt Rock set in the future sounds like a terrible new comic series that lasts 7 issues (and DC probably already tried it at some point).
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This will not be good, and that is just a damn shame……..
What happened to DC taking more of a hand in shaping their movies ala Marvel?
Oh well, just watch Zone Troopers.
Will just be some limp-dick PG13 piece of shit starring someone of Vin Diesel's ilk. Oh, but the unrated blu-ray will show someones butthole and a few extra bad words.
BOO! Fuck that!
Seriously, Devin, Basterds BETTER than Reservoir Dogs or Pulp Fiction?!? Sometimes you just say this shit to make people mad.
Oh and FUCK a futuristic Sgt. Rock movie.
"Seriously, Devin, Basterds BETTER than Reservoir Dogs or Pulp Fiction?!? Sometimes you just say this shit to make people mad. "
And bingo.
Thanks for coming today folks.
At tomorrow's inflammatory blogger theater Devin will feature a return to bashing comic nerds and special declaration that Batman is secretly a closeted Christian fundamentalist.
They should just rename this movie and call it something else. This concept is a slap in the face of all fans of this character. The only way I could see this work, is to have a "Sgt. Rock" fighting with easy company in a "near future war", and have him remember back to the stories of his grandfather as he faced a similar situation back in WWII. This is another example of Hollywood not having any real imagination to come up with something original, so they use the name of a popular story and completely ignore the source material. This movie is dead in the water before it even gets started.
This moveis will make Milion of Dolar!!!1
Inglorious Basterds has to be the most over-hyped movie in ages. It was dull and it dragged. And Christoph Waltz sounded like a modern-day German who learned English during a high school exchange in America or from Hollywood TV series rather than a 1930s SS officer who would most likely have learned Oxford English and speak with a crisp British accent. That really took me out of the picture. Tarantino is overhyped. Bring on Sgt Rock in World War II and don't be afraid to show them how it's done.
Just make The Forever War instead goddamm it…
Wasn't Shane Black supposed to be writing this? 'Cause I'd still watch it if it was set inn a future as written by Black. A future Christmas probably.
Devin's opinion on IB is right on the money. Dogs and Pulp Fiction changed the film landscape, but IB really is Tarantino's masterpiece.
FutureRock is a terrible idea, btw.
Garzo – Waltz's English – as well as his French and Italian – were impeccable. And why would a German speak English with an English accent? I think you may be confusing reality with the movies on that one.
At #10- Downey Jr.'s Holmes would rape you for such poor attempts at reasoning.
I have friends that are Russian and they learned British English when they were learning English, in the sense that the words the learn to use are more common in England(like flat instead of apartment), but they don't speak with a British accent, plus once they start actually talking to Americans they adapt their speech. You fail. Want to reconsider you retarded assesment of a movie that is too intelligent for you?
Maybe Rock can finally stick it to those blue skinned tree hugging bastards so the good people of earth can finally get the unobtanium they so deserve.
#10 FUCK YOU! You sound like a retard.
Wouldn't this essentially make it another shitty GI Joe movie? And didn't Devin give GI Joe 8.5/10 on the basis that it was "silly fun" that he would have liked when he was a kid? Hard to see what the problem is here.
This is a horrible idea. I think we need more WWII action films. I think it would be great to do a Rock of Easy Company story, shoot it like Band of Brothers, (the REAL easy company) and make allusions to other DC WWII comic properties. It would be a win.
But when DC put Jonah Hex in the future it worked so well…
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