Guy Ritchie To Direct Lobo
Sherlock Holmes director Guy Ritchie has signed on to direct a live-action adaptation of DC Comics’ bad boy anti-hero Lobo, a character originated in 1983 in “Omega Men” by Roger Slifer and Keith Giffen.
Lobo is a alien interstellar bounty hunter. The seven-foot tall, blue-skinned, indestructible and heavily muscled anti-hero drives a pimped out motorcycle, and lands on Earth in search of four fugitives who are bent on wreaking havoc.
Don Payne will pen the script (The Simpsons, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, My Super Ex-Girlfriend) and Joel Silver (The Matrix, Speed Racer, RocknRolla, Ninja Assassin), Akiva Goldsman (Deep Blue Sea, Starsky & Hutch, I Am Legend), and Andrew Rona (The Brothers Grimm) are producing along with Warner Bros, who owns DC Comics and all of its characters.
“RocknRolla” Is Very English!
“RocknRolla,” Guy Ritchie’s new movie is searching for a new distributor.
RocknRolla
The producer of Guy Ritchie’s upcoming gangster film “RocknRolla” Joel Silver has been screening the movie for rival studios Lionsgate and Sony in the hope that they will take it away from Warner Bros., according to the Los Angeles Times.
Alan Horn, chief operating officer of Warner Bros, said that he would honour a small-scale release agreement for “RocknRolla,” even though he doubted its commercial appeal.
“I think it’s a well-made picture, but while it’s funny in spots, it’s very English. [!] I don’t think it’s broadly commercial. It feels like a film that deserves a spirited release, but not a wide one. Joel has an 800-screen deal, which we’ll honour, but we might not be willing to spend the marketing money he wants us to,” Horn said.
He added that he would be open to selling the film to a rival if the right offer came along:
“If Joel is thinking there is someone out there willing to spend twice as much money as we’re willing to, I’m sure he will pursue that.”
RocknRolla’s scheduled UK release date is September 5, 2008. US release is expected in October.
Joel Silver wants new ‘Wonder Woman’ film
Producer Joel Silver has revealed that he wants the new ‘Wonder Woman film to be a “genesis” story.
Silver, known for producing action films, ‘The Matrix’, ‘Lethal Weapon‘ and the upcoming ‘Speed Racer‘, admitted he had changed his mind about which direction to take the film.
“I thought for a while that I didn’t want to do a genesis story of Wonder Woman,” Silver told.
The producer added that he found the character’s back story “goofy” but was determined to find a way to make it work.
“I’ve got to find a way to do it where it’s effective. I thought some of the stuff they did in 300 was great. I don’t know if I want to make it that way, but I think there’s a way to do this where the audience is going to accept it.”
The most recent Wonder Woman script, written by Matthew Jennison and Brent Strickland, took place in World War II. However, Silver admitted he wanted the film to be set in the modern day.
“They wrote a good script, and I liked it. But I think that I don’t want to make that movie that way. I want it to be a contemporary story,” Silver said.
Joss Whedon was previously lined up to direct Wonder Woman but dropped out of the project last year.
