Guy Ritchie to Direct DC Comics’ Lobo

Posted by Neil Miller (neil@filmschoolrejects.com) on September 2, 2009

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Warner Bros. pictures has announced today that their new go to director Guy Ritchie, who is currently finishing up work on Sherlock Holmes, has been locked into another big project — a big screen adaptation of the DC Comics character Lobo.

According to Variety, the film will follow the seven-foot-tall, blue-skinned, indestructible and heavy muscled anti-hero who drives a tricked out motorcycle, and lands on Earth in search of four fugitives who are bent on wreaking havoc. Lobo then teams with a small town teenaged girl to stop the creatures.

Having never read Lobo (hopefully we can get some readers to chime in here), I can only say that it sounds a bit like Hellboy to me, in which we have a large anti-hero fighting things from another world. That is, I’m assuming that Ritchie and crew will be going with practical effects — CGI might look a little silly. But all of those details are yet to be ironed out.

For now, the only thing Lobo comic fans should be concerned about is the fact that Warner Bros. will be shooting for a PG-13 rating. From what I understand, Lobo is the DC Universe’s answer for characters like Wolverine and The Punisher, the violent, nasty anti-hero. There’s nothing violent and nasty about PG-13 action, if you ask me.

The production is currently working from a script by Don Payne, with Joel Silver, Akiva Goldsman and Andrew Rona on to produce. Production will begin early next year.

What do you think about Guy Ritchie handling Lobo?

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Hal NineThousand

PG-13 aaaaarrrrggg damn you marketing

Christopher_M

Latino Review said it best in their script review...it should be ultra violent and set in space/on exotic planets..I don't have any problem with Ritchie directing, I'm very interested to see what he can do with a science fiction action film...my only issue is that we could see this becoming Terminator Salvation meets Masters of The Universe...a great looking movie that is held back by it's setting and rating mold....

Chris

Damnation! I'd much rather have an adaption of The Last Czarnian (along with the hilarious backstory bits in text form that included Lobo's childhood, his killing of an entire planet, as well as him causing destruction at the All-Czarnia 9-Octave Chime-Haiku Festival) than this new story idea. Seriously... him on Earth? Ugh. The Last Czarnian had it all! Death and dismemberment at an opera, a spelling bee, and Lobo sawing the legs of his elderly grade school teacher! Does any of that sound like PG-13 material?

The film should be hard R, and like Punisher: War Zone... over the top. While Lobo might fit within the comics code of PG-13, the character (yes, which is a knock on Wolverine and The Punisher), and the comic was all about over the top violence.

Sorry WB. You're goin' about this all wrong.

Cole_Abaius

Oh, awesome. Akiva Goldsman. My favorite Producer. Of all time. Ever.

Ritchie is great (when he's at his best), but this already sounds like the uncreatives will lord over it until its generic and meaningless. And Goldsman's presence usually signals as much.

Can you imagine a PG-13 Snatch? or Lock, Stock?

drivingschool

Should be good if any of his other movies are to go by, especially snatch!!

Aleric

Another example of how big Hollywood STILL doesn't get it.

What other icon of my past are they planning on basterdizing next?

Guy Ritchie to Direct DC Comics’ Lobo

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