DC Comics - "Lobo"

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Warner Bros. has locked Guy Ritchie to direct “Lobo,” the live action adaptation of the DC Comics drama about an alien interstellar bounty hunter.

Don Payne wrote the most recent script draft, and Joel Silver, Akiva Goldsman and Andrew Rona will produce. Pic is a co-production between Silver Pictures and Weed Road.

Ritchie will make the film his follow-up to “Sherlock Holmes,” the Silver-produced film that stars Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law and Rachel McAdams, which Warner Bros. opens Christmas Day.

Production on “Lobo” begins early next year.

The character originated in 1983 in “Omega Men,” written by Roger Slifer and Keith Giffen. Lobo has had several comic incarnations. In the film, he is a seven-foot tall, blue-skinned, indestructible and heavily muscled anti-hero who drives a pimped out motorcycle, and lands on Earth in search of four fugitives who are bent on wreaking havoc. Lobo teams with a small town teenaged girl to stop the creatures.

Lobo_flem WB is aiming for a PG-13 rating.

Pic will be strong on visual effects, and Ritchie will bring the irreverent, gruff tone of past films like "Snatch" and "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels."

Steve Richards and Kerry Foster will be executive producers.

With all the attention on Disney’s Marvel deal, the Ritchie deals gives WB yet another production start through its DC Comics banner. Silver and Goldsman are producers on “The Losers,” while Goldsman is a producer on “Jonah Hex.” WB recently set Ryan Reynolds to play the title character in the Martin Campbell-directed “Green Lantern.” DC Comics is a WB-owned entity, and Gregory Noveck steers the film adaptations for DC.

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Less than thrilled.

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The only way I could see the real Lobo fitting into a PG-13 film is him being the villain in a movie for another hero, like Superman. Not a lot of screentime, just enough to piss off the Big Blue Boyscout and establish his place as the badest Bastich there ever was. Then I think it would be fair to give The Main Man his own R-Rated spin-off where he can really do some Fraggin'.

I think Guy Ritchie is wrong for this as well, from what I've seen his movies are in enclosed spaces. The reason I didn't enjoy "Snatch" was because of how closed in and confined the sets looked. A movie about an alien just doesn't seem right for him. I'd rather he do a "Sgt. Rock" movie as he was supposed to have done before Holmes.

I could see this being a good Rob Zombie-directed movie, though written by somebody else. I wouldn't mind Tyler Mane in the role either. But I think the better choices would be Kevin Durand or Andrew Byniarski reprising the role from "Lobo's Paramilitary Christmas Special"

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Director Brad Peyton (Journey 2, Cats & Dogs: The Return Of Kitty Galore) has been set for the big-screen adaptation of DC Comics’ Lobo.

Per Deadline, “Brad Peyton, who helmed the global hit Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, has just been set by Warner Bros to rewrite & direct ‘Lobo’.” The prior draft had been written by Don Payne and the Akiva Goldsman, Joel Silver and Andrew Rona are producing the film with WB.

“Lobo is an alien that works as an interstellar mercenary and bounty hunter. Introduced as a hardened, rarely used hard boiled villain in the 1980s, the character remained in limbo until his revival as an anti-hero biker in the early 1990s, when he became one of the most popular characters in the DC Comics stable."

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Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson set to play Lobo?

http://collider.com/dwayne-johnson-lobo/167960/

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Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson set to play Lobo?

http://collider.com/dwayne-johnson-lobo/167960/

OK, this is a weird choice.

I've enjoyed DJ in some things, but no way can i see him as Lobo.