DC Comics LOBO Script Review

[GreenScar]

The guys over at Latino Review have their hands on another script. This time it's Lobo, DC's cross of Hellboy and Wolverine. Well, that's what I've been told anyway, I'm not familiar with the comic.

Anywho, if you're interested, click the pic and check out the video review...

[Teabaggins]

I was huge Lobo fan as a kid. awesome nearly indestructible(think superman with better regenerative powers and no weakness to kryptonite) type of character with great wit and humor especially when written by Keith Giffen. Lobo can survive in open space with no assistance. He has beat the crap out of Superman and I remember him making his own hair grow out once by looking in the mirror and yelling "grow!" at it. He's pretty much the ultimate badass, Wolverine and any other hero would be torn to bits by Lobo.

Simon Bisley did some awesome Lobo art back in the day.

there was a time when each drop of his blood would make another one of him. Lobo in the khundian(alien race) dialect means "one who devours your entrails and thoroughly enjoys it". he rides a chopper style space cycle and is pretty much a space biker/assassin for hire. the only soft spot he has in his heart is for intergalactic dolphins.

I'm sure the movie will suck as much as most superhero movies do.

[iori]

Originally Posted by Teabaggins

the only soft spot he has in his heart is for intergalactic dolphins.

lol, now I'm interested.

[Teabaggins]

here he is feeding them

[rebfandan]

I'm guessing it's going to be as uber-violent as the comic?

[Clark Kent]

A Lobo movie would have to be a R-rated movie. The character works best though when playing off other well-known characters. It would have to be marketed very well as the general public has zero awareness of Lobo or his history. The best Lobo story was when he fought Santa Claus.

[Lord_Stewie]

Hey,

Thanks to ED4246. Mentioned in this thread. Link is below.

Guy Ritchie's next upcoming project after Sherlock Holmes will be a massive development for the Director since this is technically his first Superhero Project to Helm.

Who is LOBO?

Wikipedia:

Lobo is a fictional character that appears in the comic books published by DC Comics. The character first appears in Omega Men #3 (June 1983), and was created by Roger Slifer and Keith Giffen. An alien, Lobo works as an interstellar mercenary and bounty hunter. Although introduced as a hardened, rarely-used noir villain in the 1980s, he languished in limbo until his revival as an anti-hero biker in the early 1990s. The character enjoyed a short run as one of DC’s most popular characters throughout the 1990s. This version of Lobo was intended to be an over-the-top parody of Marvel Comics superhero Wolverine (in issue #41 of Deadpool, another Marvel series, Lobo himself was parodied in the likeness of Dirty Wolff, a large blue skinned man who drove a demonic motorcycle).
"I have no idea why Lobo took off," Giffen once said in an interview. Referring to the 1990s incarnation of Lobo he created, he said, "I came up with him as an indictment of the Punisher, Wolverine, hero prototype and somehow he caught on as the high violence poster boy. Go figure"[1]

Here is about the movie project:

Guy Ritchie is a major filmmaker in many ways. He's got the big Christmas release Sherlock Holmes coming up, he found success with Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, and he used to be married to Madonna, for Christ's sake.

But now he's gotten a gig that's pretty much the signifier of Major Director status-- the comic book movie. According to Variety Ritchie will direct Lobo, a live-action adaption of the DC Comics series about a seven-foot tall, bright blue alien bounty hunter. But probably not the kind of seven-foot-tall blue person you've been seeing in Avatar.

Production is set to begin early next year, meaning this will be Ritchie's follow-up to Holmes. Having not read the comics I have no idea what to expect, but I am bizarrely intrigued by the notion of Ritchie operating in space. Will everyone still have a cockney accent? Will there be handguns? He'd just better take advantage of that final frontier.

Enjoy.

[adh56]

But now he's gotten a gig that's pretty much the signifier of Major Director status-- the comic book movie.

I find this statement laughable

P.S. What happened to Stewie?

[Lord_Stewie]

Originally Posted by adh56

I find this statement laughable

P.S. What happened to Stewie?

Stewie is still there. But now its time to unleash Captain Tsubasa. This is Soccer VS. Dragon Ball Z

[toddly6666]

I read an article that WB is thinking of doing Lobo again due to success of Deadpool. I still say cast Joe Manganiello as Lobo, and they can also have Guy Gardner show up, and also due to people supposedly getting sick of superheroes, they can also have Goldstar appear - an annoying do-gooder superhero that Lobo always beats up. This would be as close as possible to copying the Deadpool model.

[cinemaphile]

Originally Posted by toddly6666

I read an article that WB is thinking of doing Lobo again due to success of Deadpool. I still say cast Joe Manganiello as Lobo, and they can also have Guy Gardner show up, and also due to people supposedly getting sick of superheroes, they can also have Goldstar appear - an annoying do-gooder superhero that Lobo always beats up. This would be as close as possible to copying the Deadpool model.

and therein lies the problem. A movie can't be successful anymore without spawning a list of copycats and wannabes.

[toddly6666]

Originally Posted by cinemaphile

and therein lies the problem. A movie can't be successful anymore without spawning a list of copycats and wannabes.

Well they certainly cant go dark with Lobo or else we have another Punisher or Ghost Rider film - A Lobo movie must be funny, especially with Lobo's love of violence. An R-rated action fantasy comedy will inevitably make audiences think of Deadpool.

If his contract allowed it, Chris Hemsworth would be a great Lobo - with his presence and his ability to be funny, he would make a great Lobo, and it would be a different role than his usual ones.

[avpjunkie]

Jason Momoa would have been a perfect Lobo, but alas, it cannot be

[toddly6666]

Had this movie been released after Sin City, Mickey Rourke would have been a good Lobo too.