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Hollywood wants to turn Sgt. Rock into a sci-fi film
Submitted by Capt. Xerox on November 12, 2009 - 10:13pm.
When I was a kid, I was never interested in superhero comic books. That's true today. Instead, I had a thing for war comic books, especially Sgt. Rock.
For years, a Sgt. Rock movie has been in development hell and a platoon of directors and actors have had their names attached to the project, but it's never amounted to anything. Now there's talk that the movie won't be faithful to the World War II setting of the original comics, but will instead be a futuristic, science fiction war film. Oh, brother.
It's bad enough when Marvel took their army counterpart, Sgt. Fury, and made him agent Nick Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D., but the thought of transforming Rock into a sci-fi shoot-em-up is ridiculous.
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Actually he became the head of the SHIELD organization in tghe 1970s, revamped by artist Jim Steranko. The movie (which was still bad) just used that concept.
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Another soldier
Back in the early days, Sgt. Rock and Nick Fury and their cohorts were all interchangeable as far as I was concerned. I had a few comics from each and had no real preference. They were all blood'n'guts soldiers and were written for just that audience. I guess the PC climate had a lot to do with the changes over the years. But personally I think they should have remained true to their origins. S.H.I.E.L.D has however become a familiar organization in the Marvel universe and has had it's moments.
The one 'rediscovered' soldier for me has been 'The Unknown Soldier'. The bandaged character is more occult like, and hence to my liking. I forgot all about him until just over a year ago when I found some old comics in a cheapie bin. Still enjoyable to read. I gotta check out if DC has put out a cheap B/W Showcase phonebook collecting his adventures.
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Don't forget the haunted tank
The one 'rediscovered' soldier for me has been 'The Unknown Soldier'. The bandaged character is more occult like, and hence to my liking.
The only crewman who could see and hear the ghost was their commander, who was also named Jeb. I never knew why the good general helped the tank, other than the model of machine was known as an M3 Stuart tank, which was named after him, but apparently the ghost of Alexandr the Great sent him to help the tankers while they were fighting in North Africa. I guess that makes as much sense as the origin stories of any other comic book character.
C.X.
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I loved war comics too, mostly the bizarre kind. Haunted Tank and Weird War ring a bell. Sound like they are trying to do with Sgt. Rock, something similar to the new GI Joe.
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