OK. Two+ more things.

1. Please, please, please see THE BIG RED 1: THE RECONSTRUCTION if you like SGT. ROCK. I know that Wild Man and Little Sure Shot won't be there but it's still basically a SGT.ROCK movie with a lot of little episodes are we follow our heroes throughout the war.

2. The biggest hurdle that any "blockbuster" movie has is its budget and whether it will make enough profit to justify the expense. It's not about breaking even, it's about making gobs of money. So you absolutely have to have the global market place. G.I.JOE: THE RISE OF COBRA actually made more money outside of the USA. With that in mind, anything from the past and basically realistic, especially war films, can be dicey because of the historical lack of ethnic diversity (much of it due to race-based political practices). On top of that, a war film probably won't have any good parts for women. I also doubt the appeal of WWII films outside of the USA. Do they play well in Germany or France (or any of the occupied countries)? I know that China is a small market, but they don't even call it WWII there - it's the Sino-Japanese war. And I'm not sure why Japan would want to see it. All I know is that if next year Aussie Stu's people invade and occupy the USA and South Korea has to come and rescue our American ass after three years that wouldn't be something that I'd enjoy cinematically reliving for the next 40 years. So there are two huge factors against. A completely mono-ethnic, mono-gender cast and a war that much of the world either doesn't want to relive or really doesn't care about.

A few more things. The old war story tradition was to get a bunch of different guys and you did (for the time) have ethnic diversity. The Italian, the German, the Jew, the WASP, etc. That may have mattered in the past, but to the new global world all of those people I just named are really one ethnicity - American. It's an interesting, but subtle change. And finally, the funny thing about SGT. ROCK is that the property is actually set up to address most of the diversity issues. Little Sure Shot and Jackie (I think that's his name - the boxer) are already there. You have characters that are physically different (Wild Man's big red beard, Bulldozer's huge size) so it will be easier for audiences (especially foreign) to distinguish between characters. There's even a part for a woman/love interest w/Mademoiselle Marie. And finally, it can be even less straight and more palatable as a fantasy piece if you throw in the Iron Major as the main villain. There's enough to push a period piece SGT. ROCK film into the fantastic (as opposed to realistic) realm that could create the big blockbuster.

But I'm not Joe Silver, so what do I know.

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