Fans of the WWII-era comic hero Sergeant Rock will be happy to hear he may yet get his day on the silver screen.  IGN spoke with David Gambino, VP Production at Dark Castle Entertainment.  Gambino said the film is still on track, although the project is going through growing pains.

Gambino said, "It's going to be a challenge because it's a big movie to mount and it's going to require someone to play Rock, and there's not a lot of guys out there who can really step into the shoes, put a helmet on, and be a real tough guy.  He's written in the comic as being this really bulky, muscular guy. That's not an easy thing to cast."

He continued: "The good news is we have a fantastic screenplay and everybody's really happy with it.  It's really just about trying to attach cast right now and really decide what the movie is going to be, how we're going to make it. There's been talk about possibly doing it like a 300, really making it like a graphic novel come to life, but no decisions have really been made on that. It's pretty exciting though. It's a project that Joel has had for probably going on 15 or 20 years now. It was something that he almost had in production with Arnold Schwarzenegger in the late '80s and it ultimately fell apart in financing at the studio. But it's something he's been hoping we can crack forever and we finally have a script that everybody's happy with, and now it's just a matter of getting the ball rolling here and trying to put it into production."

Gambino thinks the character will play well to audiences looking for a simpler time and heroes with more clearly defined boundaries of good and evil.  "[W]e're living in times now where people are questioning whether or not we should be in Iraq, and I think World War II was the last war where it was pretty clean-cut who was the good guy and who was the bad guy. I think audiences still love that, they still love going back to that era where the politics of the time were very clear as to who we wouldn't want to take out and who were the heroes. And Sgt. Rock tries to capture some of that."