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Joel Silver Discusses The SGT. ROCK Movie's Futuristic Setting!!
Merrick here...
A while back, we learned that the Francis Lawrence directed, Joel Silver produced adaptation of SGT. ROCK would be set "in the future" (details HERE). This surprised many comic fans as this isn't what comes to mind...at all...in terms of the character's traditional setting/timeframe.
In a recent discussion with the L.A. Times, Silver talked a little more about the film's "future" placement.
"It's a little bit in the future," Silver said of the setting. "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.
...said Silver HERE.
So, the image I'm getting is SGT. ROCK by way of TOM CLANCY'S GHOST RECON or CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE? Or, something along this lines?
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If it isn't SGT. ROCK? Unless of course they just want to mine the name.
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If you don't like the characters or the setting, just come up with something new instead of "updating" this. It isn't like the world is demanding this thing. If you want to make a Sgt. Rock movie, MAKE A SGT. ROCK MOVIE!!!!
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So they will be filming a futuristic version of the character depicted on the DC covers on the widget there. None of which is futuristic. That's not awkward.
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... it's not Sgt. Rock. What a disgrace to the franchise. Call the movie something else.
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Feb 02, 2010 11:01:54 AM CST
Sgt. Rock has a beer and cheats on Doc Savage, Man of Bronze!
by vic twenty
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Rock's a quintessential WW2 character, and it STILL the coolest setting for a war picture.
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Nobody else plays grumpy and pissed-off better.
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Nathan Fillion could do a good job I think.
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Either Daniel Craig or Viggo Mortensen gets my choice for today, only if set in WW2 and the original source material.
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So basically it's another disposable loud, Hollywood CGI shitfest ala Gi Joe. Great. I'll be sure to avoid the Sgt Rock movie like a plague. And I'm an adult with a huge disposable income. Good call Hollywood...Make movies for fucking teenagers and ignore the actual BASE that grew up with Sgt Rock! Make it take place in World War 2 or fuck you.....
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Why can't we see him stomping Nazi ass?
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Arnold is the only guy that can really pull this role off and make it interesting. I say keep the futuristic war setting and pitch SGT.ROCK as Arnie's comeback film. The oak has always wanted to make this war film and now that it's semi sci-fi (Arnie sold huge in sci-fi action films in the 80's and 0's), he might agree to play FRANK ROCK finally. If SGT.ROCK is violent like the 4th RAMBO, stars ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER as his first role out of office, it will make tons of money! Hey Joel, get JOHN MILIUS or DAVID PEOPLES to add that SGT.ROCK was Austrian/American and go talk to ARNOLD now! Your career is hot again with DENZEL and ROBERT DOWNEY JR....so you know you need a star to play SGT.ROCK and not some young punk pussy kid actor. Do the right thing because SCHWARZENEGGER is SGT.ROCK!
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joe jonas IS sgt rock!!!!!!!
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...and everyone knows it.
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.....
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D.C. Step in and kill this. Why did you reorganize as D.C. Entertainment if you're going to let stuff like this happen?
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Let's run down the qualities that define Sgt. Rock: tough, can improvise, relentless, strong empathy for his men, grimy with the dirt and muck of war. I don't see that in a future setting
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Feb 02, 2010 11:26:42 AM CST
Inglorious Basterds proved that pulp fiction WWII movies don't w
by chewtoy
What? You mean it's a commercial success and nominated for a slew of Academy Awards? Huh.
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"Look! Ze Chermans are attacking! Shoot zem!"Mel GIBSON is Sgt. Rock! Come on man, look at that weathered face! He'd be great as a World War II-set Sgt. Rock. Can't you just picture him with the helmet with the straps hanging down and a smoke in the corner of his mouth? Come on Silver! You've worked with Mel before...
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...Made one of the worst talkback forms on the web even more crappy. If you're not going to let people use a decent amount of words in the header, at least let them know when they've passed the limit.
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Kind of goes against the definition of him. From Sgt. Rock's en.wikipedia article.
According to the creator of Sgt. Rock and Easy company, Robert Kanigher: "As far as I'm concerned ROCK is the only authentic World War II Soldier. For obvious reasons. He and Easy Company live only, and will eventually die, to the last man, in World War II."
I'd prefer they use a different name. Why create a brand new character that has nothing to do with Sgt. Rock and just stick his name on him? -
And JGL as his trusty sidekick
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If it is set in the future, can Colbert be the pres? you know it will come true
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...you talentless, dumbass, money grubbing cokehead? Sgt. Rock BELONGS in WWII, it's his niche.
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I wanna see a future war movie...and since i dont care bout Lt Rock, i wont care of the changes
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then the plot will involve his wife being kidnapped and he has to rescue her. I think that's been the plot of every movie Cena's done.
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And it sucked.
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He'll have to continually cut electrical cords off lamps, strip the insulation off the wires, wrap the wires around metal cylinders, plug the cord into a convenient socket, and jam the cylinder up his bung-hole. That's been the plot of every Jason Statham movie.
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Rock is gonna be Marcus Perseus Jake Sully Wright, right?
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Feb 02, 2010 11:56:41 AM CST
Next he will discuss the ancient Rome setting for Sgt Rock
by fluffyunbound
You heard it here first
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And that chick who wrote Juno will write the screenplay
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Just sayin'. WW II is where Sgt. Rock belongs.
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Are these guys morons? If you wanna set it in the future, make up your own stupid character, something like 'Cap'n Fucktard.'
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Zac Efron for Sgt. Rock.
It's a reboot reimagining.
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route is that they see how well "Avatar" did, how much press and acclaim "Hurt Locker" has gotten and they figure they can mesh the two and come up with something we might watch, and to try and get brand recognition, they'll throw Sgt. Rock on it, cause we really don't know or care about such an obscure character.. i mean come on, they know what they're doing... IE: Catwoman, Steel, Batman and Robin. they know what we want.
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That way they can use old Cold Mountain props that are lying around somewhere in Croatia. Save money.
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In the future!
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Silver and Mel aren't friends anymore. They had a falling out. Plus, Mel did WE WERE SOLDIERS. Arnie however, never did a war film and he is coming back to action films. ARNOLD leaves office at the end of this year. SGT.ROCK is being written and dusted off. It would be best if Joel Silver and the WB call Arnie and offer him SGT.ROCK. The governor might like the change from WWII to sci-fi. Plus, Sgt.Rock needs to be played by a real mans man.
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Makes as much sense as the idea of dumping him in "The Future".
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Feb 02, 2010 12:56:40 PM CST
*Ahem* Way back then Arnold was considered for the role as Rock.
by stalkeye
He even came up with the idea of Sarge originally being a German Immigrant who attained naturalized citizenship in the US.He commented how that would explain his real life accent plus being able to infiltrate the Nazi regime via going undercover.Unfortunately the plans fell through. as for the futuristic nonsensecial bullshit, it's way too comtemporary.This will be Silver's "Transformers" if you get my meaning.
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Why wreck one property when there's a more current one with a larger audience just sitting there?? Leave Sgt Rock in WW2 and bring Soap to life instead.
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I'm sure Matt Frewer isn't busy these days.
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"We find the character works really well in this milieu"
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Makes 2 much sense though.
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Sgt Rock as singer in a rock band. Duh! It's a no-brainer.
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wtf? He's a WW2 character...what is so hard to understand? Besides, INGLORIUS BASTERDS is a hit & up for Oscars, don't you want a piece of that? (Sigh)...I guess what Sgt. Rock always said still holds true today; "Nothing's easy for Easy."
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Call it something else if it's not gonna be set in WWII. Dumb. Dumb. Dumb.
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"It's pretty strong......for shit on a stick." Please, please, please...AICN....Enough coverage of this abortion before the fact. Every single geek in the world knows this flick will blow harder than a Tijuana donkey show.
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and from the planet Zeist.
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Great point. The only way a SGT.ROCK movie would work is if Schwarzenegger as Rock is a German Immigrant who attaines naturalized citizenship in the US. That would explain ARNOLD and his real life accent plus having great suspence scenes like the old PEOPLES script with Rock being able to infiltrate the Nazi regime via going undercover.
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...or does it seem that ever since the Matrix, Joel Silver feels that he can just hand his audience any old piece of shit and they'll lap it up, simply because it came from him? This is a shit idea, and there are people who've told him this too, mark my words.
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... your words are now marked.
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If you want to make some big flashy sci-fi future war movie, just do what James Cameron did with Avatar: COME UP WITH YOUR OWN! Why take a character noted for his WWII roots and then make a movie set in the future? Who are you hoping to woo with that one? Comic book fans won't just go see it because it's got a character's name in the title. It ain't 1996 no more. We're a bit more sophisticated than that now. Not much, but a bit.
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ON TWITTER????? Seriously, it's already passe.
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if he was dead I mean
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Seriously, don't even call it Sgt. Rock then, call it something else you soulless morons. It won't get my money that's for damn sure. Just hire Will Smith to be Sgt. Rock and go for the epic fail.
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And it's also afraid of World War 2 "fantasy" movies. Tarantino had the balls to finally make one, but Joel Silver wouldn't go near a Sgt Rock property that had Nazis being gloriously killed by Easy Company with an American flag waving in the breeze. He's more of a "the more CGI and fake backgrounds, the better" type producer. Hopefully this will make less money than his Speed Racer did (which I didn't hate). I vote with my dollars and "Sgt Rock & The Space Platoon" will see none of them. Not a fuckin' cent Joel! ;-)
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It's not like Sgt. Rock has ahuge following even in comics or those who never read boks have heard of him. Seems to me Silver could just do a future war movie with a strong story and have a whole new IP to pimp. A big part of what makes Sgt Rock work is that he's all WWII. And given the success of Basterds, seems a good time to try something in that vein.
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Morgan Freeman drives a jeep around with Sergeant Rock in the back for the duration of the war, and they talk and bridge divides.
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...that he's in World War II?
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Captain America does well.Weird War II is a wonderful setting. Would hate to see a "G.I. Combat / The Haunted Tank" movie set in the future.
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Sgt Rock and his squad are shipped to PanWhora to fight giant Smurfs. Sgt Rock gets laid by a giant Smurf and betrays his men and lives happily ever after. It will make BILLIONS!
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He travels from WWII to a future war where Christopher Lloyd helps him return to the 40's.
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a "Dragons Lair" movie, based off the '80s arcade game.... Singe COULD look sooooo effin cool
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http://tinyurl.com/yf9k6ka
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This decision is f'ing Palin.
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I AM SO SICK OF ALL THE ADAPTION AND REMAKE CRAP!
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I can't think of anything else to write, so I might as well go for the obvious…
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Returns with Christopher Lloyd to the 40s, but must harness the power of dead babies and their sweet, sweet stem cells to get back to the future.
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Returns with Christopher Lloyd to the 40s, but must harness the power of dead babies and their sweet, sweet stem cells to get back to the future.
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Everybody who even cares a little wants WW2. Why would Silver or anyone else think in terms of "it's either modern or it's not-too-distant-future?" THOSE TWO OPTIONS SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN OPTIONS. This is like remaking Battle of Britain and saying "We didn't think Vietnam was a good choice so now it's about spaceships."
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Feb 02, 2010 5:53:07 PM CST
SGT ROCK must fight in World War II or it's NO DEAL!!!
by mrmysteryguest
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Then why bother.
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He can't even grasp the most simple of concepts
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i'd doubt they'd set it modern day
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is an even worse idea. Why does Hollywood insist on taking a comic book property and completely changing it around. Why not just call it something else and save yourself the copyright $$ stupid shit.
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just sayin'...
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Seriously, keep Sarge and crew in WW II. No wonder so many people are making jokes.
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Sgt. Rock is WWII. Read a comic, you Hollywood suit twits.
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Feb 02, 2010 8:27:19 PM CST
I was going to say Micheal Cera might as well be Rock.
by johndillingers20inchseveredcock
But somebody beat me to it. How about Samuel Jackson? He's in everything else, and he's Nick Fury now anyway.
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great minds think alike. Largely due to babies stem cells I would think.
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Jackie Earle Haley. Am I wrong?
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Stop effing with characters you stole from someone else!By the way, I believe DC comics has shown an aged Rock living long past WWII.
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You know someone someday is gonna adapt some comic book character to a movie properly and will all be in awe...
The guy actually considers having Sgt Rock not in WW2 but in the future as a cool change...
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This screams "Direct To Video" as hard as David Hasselhoff as Nick Fury.
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He almost killed the Batman franchise. Why is DC going to let him wreck another one? SGT. Rock was one of my favorites when I was a kid and no way am I going to see SGT. Rock in the future. If you want to do the future, do Buck Rogers or something.
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I'm not a flag-totting nutbag, and I despise this !!!!
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This is a good idea how? You're just making a generic war movie and slapping a popular name on it instead of doing an actual adaptation.
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VAMPIRES!
You know they are thinkin' it...
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