‘Lobo’ Sidelined By ‘Sherlock Holmes’
Avatar was the winner at the box office this year but Sherlock Holmes was also a big crowd puller and not it has even sidelined Lobo on Guy Ritchie’s priority list. Read the rest of this entry »
Akiva Goldsman Talks ‘Lobo’
Akiva Goldsman, the producer of the new live-action adaptation of the DC Comic character Lobo, has provided a small but nonetheless reportable update on the status of the film.
Put in short, the character design of Lobo is done, test filming is about to commence, and the film has a big visual effects budget. Goldsman also confirms he’s happy to have Guy Ritchie in the directors chair.
“There’s something hyperbolic and authentic about a Guy Ritchie movie.” Goldsman said. “His best movies are deeply, deeply stylized yet they are all grounded; there’s a grit of stylization, which sounds like an oxymoron but it makes perfect sense when you’ve seen his films. We’ve never seen Guy’s sensibility married to a project with such a large special effects budget.”
‘Lobo’ Feature Film Confirmed, But You Won’t Be Happy
Lobo takes on Superman
Back in May the rumor surfaced that Warner Bros. were looking to develop a feature film based on the mega-violent DC Comics character Lobo.
Warner Bros. have now confirmed director Guy Ritchie will direct the film following completion of Sherlock Holmes.
Unfortunately there’s a catch, and it’s not a good one. In fact, it’s about the worst one any fan of Lobo would want to hear: Warner Bros. are aiming for a PG-13 rating.
DC’s ‘Lobo’ Heading To The Big Screen?
Warner Bros. are looking at the possibility of developing a full feature film based on the DC Comic Lobo.
Don’t know anything about Lobo? We can sum up the character of Lobo reasonably quickly – he’s not that complicated. Lobo is the last of his race, a guy who killed all of his own kind because he, well, enjoyed killing them. Lobo is basically as tough as Superman (and in fact fought Superman), loves weapons, women, alcohol, and killing people indiscriminately. He has a pet Bulldog that’s really just as bad as he is and oh yeah, he’s a Bounty Hunter who travels through space hunting down the meanest of the mean for fun and money.
Those who have read (and enjoyed) the Lobo comics would know that a Lobo feature film would be sick (you can take that a few ways). However, our first thought is that for Lobo to be translated to the screen with justice, there’s no question it would have to be R-Rated. In the wake of Watchmen one would guess Warner Bros. would be a little touchy on investing into another R-Rated film. On the flipside, Watchmen has almost doubled its budget in worldwide takings, so you never know.
In any case, we don’t know a lot about the status of a potential Lobo movie. We only have a whiff of the possibility thanks to Latino Review who claim to have seen an early script which they’ve summarised via a pretty cool video synopsis. You can watch their video here.
For the record, we think with a couple of months of bulking up in the gym actor Jason Momoa (aka Ronon Dex in Stargate Atlantis) would play the perfect Lobo. In fact, we think Momoa is as perfect a Lobo as Hugh Jackman is Wolverine. Could we be so lucky?
Hopefully we’ll hear more on Lobo sooner rather than later.
