Daniel Craig May Be Joining James Gunn’s DC Universe

Daniel Craig whitethorn not beryllium James Bond anymore but helium could beryllium getting backmost to those heroic ways. The Knives Out star is said to beryllium successful talks to reunite with manager Luca Guadagnino to marque a movie for DC Studios, Sgt. Rock.

Sgt. Rock, a highly skilled ex-soldier, has been a portion of DC Comics since the 1950s. He’s conscionable benignant of a badass and not superheroic, which is wherefore this some makes consciousness and doesn’t. You recognize Craig and Guadagnino wanting to marque a movie similar that. DC, however, is presently co-run by James Gunn and Peter Safran, whose purpose has been overmuch much connected the fantastical broadside of the comic publication brand. Who is going to accidental nary to James Bond and the antheral down Challengers and Call Me By Your Name making a movie for you, though?

According to Deadline, which broke the story, nary deals person been enactment successful spot yet, truthful this inactive isn’t 100% happening. However, if it does, it could beryllium the adjacent movie Craig and Guadagnino make. The manager was precocious announced to beryllium making a caller adaptation of American Psycho but this screenplay, written by Justin Kuritzkes, is further along. Kuritzkes besides wrote Challengers for Guadagnino and this month’s Queer, which Guadagnino directed and Craig stars in.

And portion Sgt. Rock is 1 of DC’s much realistic characters, determination are respective ways helium could perchance acceptable into the caller DC Studios. The movie could conscionable extremity up being Elseworlds, a marque the workplace has lifted from the comics arsenic a mode to make films that are not portion of the larger universe–like however Matt Reeves’ Batman movie and Penguin TV bid inhabit their ain chiseled abstraction distant from different DCU projects. Or possibly this is conscionable a grounded mode to bring a quality similar Rock into the DCU–although Rock was initially developed arsenic strictly a warfare stories anthology comics hero, he’s appeared alongside DC superheroes respective times successful his agelong work history. At 1 constituent helium was adjacent portion of Lex Luthor’s statesmanlike administration! So possibly this becomes conscionable a cool, tangential spinoff from that character, who’ll beryllium played by Nicholas Hoult successful the upcoming Superman reboot. Rock’s besides managed the Suicide Squad so, maybe, that gets wrapped successful there.

io9 reached retired to DC for remark oregon clarification and volition update this station if oregon erstwhile we hear. Either way, Craig and Guadagnino are unthinkable and that they whitethorn marque a DC movie is wild, but awesome, news. Let america cognize what you deliberation below.

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