Craig is not the Rock

Daniel Craig has dropped out of playing Sgt. Rock a DC Studios project based on the 1959 War comic and directed by Luca Guadagnino.

This would have been Craig and Gadagino's second collaboration in the last couple of years. Working previously together on Queer (which we wrote about here).

Sergeant Franklin John Rock was first introduced as part of the US push to make comics reflect better on the military-industrial complex. The comics followed his rise through the ranks but with some soap opera-esque twists, a missing father, a secret brother back from the dead, etc.

Daniel Craig would have been the perfect fit for this machismo with various tough guy roles in war flicks The Trench (1999) and The Defiance (2008), and most famously, he was discovered for the role of James Bond during a wartime rendition of Othello. Those who are burnt out from superheroes might be excited to learn that the comic is a grounded, gritty wartime drama; Quentin Tarantino apparently was considering adapting at one point.

Numerous attempts have been made to bring this classic to the screen. Even if it's not exactly how fans pictured it, we’re excited to see who will replace Craig in the DCU.