EXCLUSIVE: After winning practically every single award out there for his turn as The Penguin, Colin Farrell is looking to get back in business with DC, and that’s to star in the title role of Luca Guadagnino’s SGT Rock.

Note, this is a different part of the DC-verse, The Penguin being part of Matt Reeves’ The Batman sphere, whereas SGT Rock is part of DC bosses’ James Gunn and Peter Safran’s oversee. The two worlds shall never overlap.

Scheduling for the film, which Farrell wants to do we hear, has to be balanced with his busy fall which includes the second season of AppleTV+’s Sugar and Edward Berger’s movie The Ballad of a Small Player.

Farrell takes over for Daniel Craig who was originally kicking the tires to reteam with Guadagnino post Queer.

Farrell will play Sgt. Franklin John Rock in the WW II set movie. Created by Robert Kanigher and Joe Kubert, the character first debuted in the 1959 DC issue Our Army at War as a World Wor II soldier who served in the infantry. The character gained steamed in 1977 when he received his own comic book series, which ran until July 1988. Rock’s talent includes shooting down German plans with a single submachine gun and tossing grenades with great accuracy. When he’s without a gun, he’s a great street fighter, and can survive gunshots. He’s a calm guy with heart, but also has a “Combat Antenna” able to detect an incoming enemy siege. There was also a toy series in the 1980s for SGT Rock around the time G.I. Joe was soaring in comic books and on TV.

The project marks a reteaming of Guadagnino with his Challengers and Queer scribe Justin Kuritzkes. Among all the plates that Guadagnino has spinning, SGT Rock pretty much has the pole position over Lionsgate’s American Psycho. Guadagnino has the Amazon MGM Studios’ Julia Roberts and Andrew Garfield thriller After the Hunt later this year on Oct. 10.

Next up for DC Studios is Gunn’s Superman on July 11.

Farrell is repped by CAA, Ilene Feldman Management and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush, Kaller, Gellman, Meigs & Fox. The Banshees of Inisherin Best Actor Oscar nominee has taken home Lead Actor TV awards from the Golden Globes, Critics Choice, and SAG for his metamorphic portrayal of The Penguin.