Daniel Craig is circling a starring position in a film adaptation of Sgt. Rock at DC Studios, stories Deadline.
Luca Guadagnino is poised to direct the movie off a screenplay penned by Justin Kuritzkes (Challengers, Queer). The report cautions that “no offers have been inked” by James Gunn and Peter Safran’s DC Studios with Craig and Guadagnino, with additional particulars beneath wraps.
Created by Robert Kanigher and Joe Kubert, the character of Sgt. Franklin John Rock first appeared within the 1959 DC challenge Our Military at Conflict. An infantry WWII soldier, Rock obtained his personal collection in 1977. Rock’s powers and skills embody taking pictures and throwing grenades with uncanny accuracy, shut fight abilities, superhuman endurance and energy, and a sixth sense “fight antenna” which warns him of an incoming enemy assault.
Ought to the film come collectively as deliberate, it might mark a reunion between Craig and Guadagnino after the A24 romantic drama Queer, which is about for a restricted launch in US theaters on November twenty seventh.