According to Variety, Warner Bros has attached Guy Ritchie to direct a live-action film starring the DC Comics anti-hero Lobo. Although created in the 1980s, the character didn’t gain popularity until the following decade as a superhuman being who travels the universe as a bounty hunter and mercenary. The planned film has a script by Don Payne (My Super Ex-Girlfriend, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer) and will be produced by Joel Silver, Akiva Goldsman and Andrew Rona. For the film, Lobo is reportedly going to be blue-skinned, although I hope that somehow Variety has their facts completely wrong on that account. Then again, the story description adds that when Lobo arrives on Earth to hunt down four fugitives he’ll be teaming up with a “small town teenaged girl” so maybe this is just all around bizarre. Warner Bros is also aiming for a PG-13 rating, which is sure to lead to some reduction in the level of violence Lobo is typically known for. The first impressions on this project don’t seem stellar, but we’ll have to see how it develops before jumping to conclusions. Story details are often poorly conveyed if not totally wrong when reported in the trades anyway.
Production is geared towards starting early next year. Meanwhile, Guy Ritchie is wrapping up Sherlock Holmes.
