"It's going to be a challenge because it's a big movie to mount and it's going to require someone to play Rock, and there's not a lot of guys out there who can really step into the shoes, put a helmet on, and be a real tough guy," says Gambino. "He's written in the comic as being this really bulky, muscular guy. That's not an easy thing to cast."
That said, Gambino reveals that the screenplay for the proposed film is in good shape and that discussions are currently underway as to how to shoot the picture — with the notion of doing it 300-like in front of greenscreens and with digital backgrounds being an option. "The good news is we have a fantastic screenplay [by John Cox] and everybody's really happy with it," he says. "It's really just about trying to attach cast right now and really decide what the movie is going to be, how we're going to make it. There's been talk about possibly doing it like a 300, really making it like a graphic novel come to life, but no decisions have really been made on that. It's pretty exciting though. It's a project that Joel has had for probably going on 15 or 20 years now. It was something that he almost had in production with Arnold Schwarzenegger in the late '80s and it ultimately fell apart in financing at the studio. But it's something he's been hoping we can crack forever and we finally have a script that everybody's happy with, and now it's just a matter of getting the ball rolling here and trying to put it into production." - IGN, 4/26/07 [link]
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