Luca Guadagnino’s team-up with Daniel Craig for DC Studios’ Sgt. Rock has fallen through. Our sources confirm that Daniel Craig has passed on the role. Guadagnino and Craig were set to join forces after Queer, but that plan is off now. We haven’t been given any specific reason for Craig’s decision.
We were first to report that Luca Guadagnino is set to direct and Justin Kuritzkes would be writing the script—the same writer who penned Guadagnino’s previous films Challengers and Queer.
Sgt. Franklin Rock, created by Robert Kanigher and Joe Kubert, made his debut in Our Army at War #83 back in 1959. Known as a key member of Easy Company, which fought in the European Theatre during World War II, Rock has been a long-standing character in comic book history. There have been several attempts to bring his story to the big screen since the 1980s, with many writers attached and various drafts written. The character even made his DC Universe debut in a G.I. robot-centric episode of Creature Commandos.
Guadagnino is represented by CAA, Range Media Partners, and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson & Christopher, while Craig is represented by CAA, Independent Talent Group, and Glaser Weil Fink Jacobs Howard Avchen & Shapiro.