Monday
12May2008
Guy Ritchie to Direct 'Sgt. Rock'?
Monday, May 12, 2008 at 6:27PM 
Could
Guy Ritchie get an assist in his
career rebound from producer
Joel Silver? If Silver has anything to do with it,
yeah, probably.
In a sitdown with Moriarty at
Ain't It
Cool, Silver spent about thislong on the DC Comics adaptation, spending the bulk
of his time talking about his new release, Speed Racer. After all, he's a producer; would you
expect it to be the other way around?
Discussing Silver's penchant for holding on
to the rights of unmade movies for decades - and Speed Racer falls in that
category - Moriarity offered, "But you do that with properties. You stick by
them, like
Sgt. Rock. You have developed that for a long time now," to which
Silver replied, "I'm going to make that very soon. With Guy Ritchie, I think."
This is a good time a) For you to retrieve your jaw from the floor, and b) To
point out that Ritchie and Silver worked together on
RocknRolla, which everyone
in the Ritchie household firmly hopes will be his big comeback.
Silver admitted in the interview that he's
a fan of Ritchie's two good films, which kind of led to the collaboration on
Rocknrolla.
Sgt. Rock won't be nearly as difficult as
some comic books to adapt. After all, it can be whittled down to a big, shoot-em-up
war movie. In fact, that's probably the best way to go. You could do more with
it, I suppose, but then you're kind of overthinking the appeal of the character
and the story. Is Guy Ritchie the right choice? Well, he wouldn't be my first
choice, but I must admit it's a pretty intriguing way to go. And if you can find
anybody better than
Tom Sizemore for that role, you're one up on me.
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