Joel Silver Discusses The SGT. ROCK Movie's Futuristic Setting!!

Merrick here...
A while back, we learned that the Francis Lawrence directed, Joel Silver produced adaptation of SGT. ROCK would be set "in the future" (details HERE). This surprised many comic fans as this isn't what comes to mind...at all...in terms of the character's traditional setting/timeframe. In a recent discussion with the L.A. Times, Silver talked a little more about the film's "future" placement.

"It's a little bit in the future," Silver said of the setting. "As a war movie, it's not going to be 'where it's been,' it's going to be 'where it's going.' We didn't want to do Iraq, we didn't want to do a contemporary war. We wanted to do a sort of futuristic war. It's pretty strong.

...said Silver HERE. So, the image I'm getting is SGT. ROCK by way of TOM CLANCY'S GHOST RECON or CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE? Or, something along this lines?
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