Challengers filmmaker Luca Guadagnino looks set to make his comic book adaptation Sgt Rock, starring Daniel Craig, in late 2025.
More than a few eyebrows raised when it was revealed that Luca Guadagnino was reuniting with his Queer collaborator, Daniel Craig to take on Sgt. Rock for Warner Bros’ comic book subsidiary, DC.
After all, it’s unlikely that the helmer of Call Me By Your Name and Bones And All will be looking to make a four quadrant blockbuster. This is surely going to be an auteur project that, if necessary, can be siloed off from James Gunn’s DCU so Guadagnino and Craig can make a war film and bring all of their sensibilities to bear on it. That’s our guess, anyway.
Back when the project was announced, Deadline reported that it would be Guadagnino’s next film, and now Jeff Sneider has confirmed this, adding that a production will begin in the autumn of 2025. Given that Guadagnino has put out two films this year – Challengers and Queer – and has also wrapped shooting on After The Hunt with Julia Roberts, we’d imagine that at some point in 2025 he’s going to give himself a break before gearing up to make a war film. We’ve seen Tropic Thunder; we know how hard war films are to make.
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As for the rest of Guadagnino’s slate, it contains some fascinating stuff, including American Psycho, Separate Rooms, Leading Men and The Lord Of The Flies. The news comes amid Warner Bros dating two upcoming DC films, those being Clayface, set for September 2026, and Dynamic Duo in June of 2028. Both films are Batman-adjacent projects, with the latter being an animated movie featuring two Robins – the Dark Knight’s colourful sidekick, not the birds.
We’ll bring you more on Sgt. Rock when we hear it. But the named production window likely means that, unlike the Arnold Schwarzenegger and John McTiernan version that never got off the ground, this one looks like it really is happening.
