Francis Lawrence Attached To 'Sgt. Rock'

We continue to hear news trickling out of the WB's Burbank location involving their never-ending line of DC's comic book properties. The problem is we are getting news on characters we don't really care about such as Lobo. Sure, Lobo is a solid character that could make an impact as a secondary villain in a Superman or Justice League movie but can such a character headline his own film? Warner Bros believes he can and his teaming him up with a teenage girl as he stomps around with his hand on the trigger.

Now we are getting word from "The Brothers Warner" that a comic book character much more obscure than Lobo is getting yet another creative team to bring his penciled and ink self to the celluloid mix. WB has given the keys to Francis Lawrence to direct "Sgt. Rock". The film will be based off a comic book that ran from 1977 through 1988 and was previously available in the 50's under the title of "Our Army At War". The comic depicts Sergeant Frank Rock and his exploits as he leads an infantry unit during World War II. After many starts and stalls int he World War II era this new version will be set in the future.

What does this all mean? It means that Warner Bros is attempting to exploit their lesser known characters as they fumble around with what to do with their more important characters, ie Batman and Superman. Marvel continues to stomp all over WB/DC as they wait for Christopher Nolan to finish "Inception" and in the meantime the studios is hoping the fans will accept C and D level characters. "Green Lantern" and pray for rain?