The Hollywood Reporter is well...reporting that Guy Ritchie has signed on to direct his first superhero movie, Lobo, a big-screen translation of the DC Comics anti-hero.
Lobo is an blue-skinned cigar-chomping alien who is an interstellar mercenary and bounty hunter. The character is one of DC’s more recent creations (he was introduced in the 1980s by creators Roger Slifer and Keith Giffen) and for a brief run in the 1990s, was one of comicdom’s most popular characters.
Lobo was meant to serve as a parody of violent heroes such as Wolverine and the Punisher, with his stories featuring a nihilistic streak tinged with dark comedy and excessive violence. Which sounds right out of Ritchie's wheelhouse.
Don Payne (My Super Ex-Girlfriend, Rise of the Silver Surfer) is penning the screenplay for the oft-delayed film that should beging production early next year.
--Greg MacLennan
Lobo is an blue-skinned cigar-chomping alien who is an interstellar mercenary and bounty hunter. The character is one of DC’s more recent creations (he was introduced in the 1980s by creators Roger Slifer and Keith Giffen) and for a brief run in the 1990s, was one of comicdom’s most popular characters.
Lobo was meant to serve as a parody of violent heroes such as Wolverine and the Punisher, with his stories featuring a nihilistic streak tinged with dark comedy and excessive violence. Which sounds right out of Ritchie's wheelhouse.
Don Payne (My Super Ex-Girlfriend, Rise of the Silver Surfer) is penning the screenplay for the oft-delayed film that should beging production early next year.
--Greg MacLennan
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