It’s the unlikeliest match-up of the year – having collaborated on Queer, rumours are the pair are bringing the gruff comic book soldier to the screen

There are no cherry blossoms hinting at the first flush of spring, the nights are creeping in rather than drawing out, and there are scant few leaves left on the trees on my street. And yet, were it not obvious from the freezing temperatures that we in the UK are now in the dog days of November, one might think it were April Fools’ Day. For what’s this? Reports in the Hollywood press suggest that Daniel Craig and Luca Guadagnino are teaming up for – really? – the DC Comics adaptation Sgt Rock?

For those of you unacquainted with the gruff second world war infantryman … well, let’s just say if there were two characters more fundamentally different than Sgt Rock and the gay desperado and William S Burroughs cipher played recently by Craig in Guadagnino’s acclaimed Queer, they’d need to rewrite the laws of physics just to exchange a polite wave across the multiverse. So far apart in tone are these two worlds that it’s almost impossible to imagine the same team working on both projects.