Silver said the plan now is for the old warhorse of DC Comics to serve his country in the not-too-distant future. The idea of a future battlefield setting has reinvigorated a property that has flirted with the big screen for decades. 

"It's a little bit in the future," Silver said of the setting. "As a war movie, it's not going to be 'where it's been,' it's going to be 'where it's going.' We didn't want to do Iraq, we didn't want to do a contemporary war. We wanted to do a sort of futuristic war. It's pretty strong. Chad St. John wrote the script and we've got Francis Lawrence involved in developing it with us. It's not a 'go' movie yet but I'm feeling good about it."

I disapprove of this being set in the future. Though I've never really been that up on Sgt. Rock I have read the issues that my dad has from the 60-70s and I don't think the future setting is a good idea. Further more i would also recommend that everyone who reads this article does buy Band of Brothers

Band of Brothers is the greatest.

Erm.... pass.

I don't dig this, and the worst part is I have to tell my dad that hollywood is ruining one of his favorite comic book characters. 

Eh...?  Does not compute. I think my brain just broke...

Bad idea

So they're not doing a Sgt. Rock movie... they're making a "future war" movie and slapping the Sgt. Rock characters in there.

Whoa wait their making a movie about him?

If the film is not set during World War II, then it's not a film about Sgt. Rock. That setting is absolutely intrinsic to the Sgt. Rock character. That era... that war... inform his personality, shape his character, & ultimely define who Sgt. Rock is. If you take that away, then you take away the character. The best example of this is the film Constantine. They took away the character's environment... London..., & his nationality... English. Cast against the character's physical appearance. Then played his personality as a dark, brooding anti-hero, very unlike the charming rogue from the source material. His best friend's personality was also completely changed. Oh, & they made him an action hero, wielding religious themed weapons. The character in the comics doesn't win by physically beating his enemies down. He wins through trickery & manipulation. Once you excise that much from the character, you're pretty much left with nothing. If this is the route they intend to take with Sgt. Rock, then what they're really doing is just cashing in on the name recognition. A dubious prospect, at best, considering that Sgt. Rock isn't particularly well known outside of it's fan base, a group I can't imagine embracing this bungling of the character's transition from comic book page to silver screen.

Now that idea don't make damn bit of sense.

Didn't they offer the role to Arnold Schwarzenegger years ago when he was in his prime

If they weren't going to do it right, it's best they didn't do it at all. Much as I'd love seeing a faithful film adaption the odds are against it.