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Watching Johnny Carson on Antenna TV and Arnold Schwarzenegger is talking about doing Red Heat and Twins and how he is filming a WW2 movie for Warner Brothers called Sgt Rock. Was this ever made? I never heard of a Sgt Rock movie...
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Yeah. It was a thing, I remember reading about how they were going to explain his Austrian accent. I worked in a comic store at the time, I regaled customers with my impersonation.Places to find PlaidStallions online: https://linktr.ee/Plaidstallions
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Ugh. He was seriously considered for a Doc Savage reboot, too at one point. Thank God neither were made.WANTED: Dick Grayson SI trousers; gray AJ Mustang horse; vintage RC Batman (Bruce Wayne) head; minty Wolfman tights; mint Black Knight sword; minty Launcelot boots; Lion Rock (pale) Dracula & Mummy heads; Lion Rock Franky squared boots; Wayne Foundation blue furniture; Flash Gordon/Ming (10") unbroken holsters; CHiPs gloved arms; POTA T2 tan body; CTVT/vintage Friar Tuck robes, BBP TZ Burgess Meredith glasses.Comment
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i think he would have been good for Sgt Rock. but admittedly have never read a single Rock comicComment
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In the days of Comics Scene magazine, the "On the Comics Screen" feature would list productions that were announced, "in development" (and thus normally never made), and filming. Sgt. Rock was named repeatedly as one of the next to be coming out, and certainly having Schwarzenegger named helped keep the buzz going for a while.Hugh H. Davis
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I have the official button of the Arnold Schwarzenegger/Sgt. Rock in my collection. I remember getting it from a comic book store in California. Once I read what they had done to the script I am glad it did not get made.Visit my wiki site:
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I had that clip Arnold mentioned on a vhs tape.Bruce Willis was also I think on tsp to play the sarge.Comment
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Joel Silver had the rights, along with Watchmen, Wonder Woman, Swamp Thing and a few others. He had Shane Black do the initial pitch to Arnold on the set of Predator. That's why in the end credits of Predator, Black's shot shows him reading an issue of Rock. They also pitched him Dr Manhattan, which in retrospect would have been the greatest miscasting of all time.
Silver was the equivalent of a squatter when it comes to DC. He hit big with Lethal Weapon and Predator in 87 so WB would do whatever he wanted. Moore and Miller had exploded DC's sales so someone (Mark Canton maybe) decided to pair the two. The way rights were split up between production companies within WB was apparently idiotic even at the time and set them back almost twenty years.
As crazy as it seems, the results of those decisions is what lead to the Snyderverse. If it wasn't for Michael Uslan, Batman would have been sold off to an 80's shingle like Silver and toiled in development well into the 90s.Comment
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