BREAKING MOVIE/TV NEWS

Sunday, April 29, 2007

Silver Recruits "Sgt. Rock" For The Big Screen

Producer Joel "Lethal Weapon" Silver's Dark Castle Entertainment continues development on a big screen version of the DC Comics WW II GI, "Sgt. Rock".

"It's going to be a challenge because it's a big movie to mount and it's going to require someone to play 'Rock', and there's not a lot of guys out there who can really step into the shoes, put a helmet on, and be a real tough guy," said David Gambino, VP Production for Dark Castle.

"He's written in the comic as being this really bulky, muscular guy. That's not an easy thing to cast. The good news is we have a fantastic screenplay and everybody's really happy with it. It's really just about trying to attach cast right now and really decide what the movie is going to be, how we're going to make it.


"There's been talk about possibly doing it like a '300,' really making it like a graphic novel come to life, but no decisions have really been made on that. It's pretty exciting though. It's a project that Joel has had for probably going on 15 or 20 years now. It was something that he almost had in production with Arnold Schwarzenegger in the late '80s and it ultimately fell apart in financing at the studio.

"...we finally have a script that everybody's happy with, and now it's just a matter of getting the ball rolling here and trying to put it into production."