While none of us were expecting The Penguin Season 2 to be added to the roster of upcoming DC TV shows any time soon, the chances of Oswald Cobb’s return before The Batman: Part II look to have gotten a bit slimmer. That’s thanks to its award winning lead Colin Farrell looking to step into the shoes of Daniel Craig, or rather his combat boots.
After director Luca Guadagnino’s collaborator dropped out of Sgt. Rock, it appears that none other than Mr. Farrell himself is now in talks. That announcement comes per reporting out of Deadline, which states that the man of the hour is willing to go to war for DC Studios, but figuring out if he’ll be able and available is the true question.
One has to wonder if the previous reports of The Bear’s Jeremy Allen White’s potential Sgt. Rock casting went without follow-ups for similar reasons. For now, Colin Farrell’s scheduling concerns seem to only consist of the return to his Apple TV+ series Sugar, as well as Edward Berger’s upcoming film The Ballad of a Small Player.
While that doesn’t seem like a lot to worry about, the steam DCU Chapter 1: “Gods and Monsters” has gathered at this moment is what’s more than likely driving the momentum in finding this picture’s lead. So we might not want to get our hopes up for a signing just yet. At the same time, should Mr. Farrell enlist for Sgt. Rock, there’s a good chance that the somewhat grounded World War II veteran won’t require much prosthetic work.
The creation of DC Comics writer Robert Kanigher and artist Joe Kubert, Sgt. Franklin John Rock has been adapted into animated projects, as well as progressed through various loose or unrealized live-action attempts. Max subscription holders are the most recent group of fans to have a brush with Colin Farrell’s potential new gig, thanks to Creature Commandos’ G.I. Robot flashback involving Sgt. Rock in Season 1.
It’s that last performance, through voice actor Maury Sterling, that has fans talking at the moment. As we’ve seen through Frank Grillo’s live-action casting as Rick Flag Sr., the new incarnation of the DCU is going to have actors that play their respective roles in animation and live-action. So could this mean that before his cinematic debut comes to pass, Colin Farrell might voice Sgt. Rock’s titular protagonist for animated DC projects?
Admittedly, that’s a question we’ll have to be patient about. With this good soldier already on the third speculated name to play him on the big screen, anything can happen at this point. In the meantime, we’ll be able to see Colin Farrell next in the 2025 movie A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, co-starring Barbie’s Margot Robbie, as that’s slated to bow in theaters on September 19th.
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