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.
Shooting kicks off early next year and is aiming for a PG-13 rating. [source: Variety]
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Considering the character’s backstory is one of him killing, not only his parents, but his entire species by flesh devouring scorpion-things for the fun of it and mass-mutilating his targets with a giant hook wrapped around his arm by a chain… PG-13?
I always wanted to wrap my fingers around making this film. It would have to be the most over-the-top violent bloodbath in cinema, but what the hell…
Blue?
He’s very, very white. (to the extent I’d love to see him frag a bunch of ‘darkies’ at a KKK rally)
PG13?
Lobo couldn’t take a breath and get it labled as PG13
RICTHIE?!??!?!
Lets hope they take a leaf out of the Lobo comicon special, and have the Fragster interupt the filming of his own PG13 movie, with X rated, terminal, treachery.