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.

[fighthefutureofhd]

and dc wonders why their movies don't often have success at the box office.

[andyman1970]

Originally Posted by 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.

The general public had zero awareness of John Constantine from the Hellblazer comics but the movie Constantine earned over 230 million worldwide at the box office.

Originally Posted by fighthefutureofhd

and dc wonders why their movies don't often have success at the box office.

What does that mean?

[fighthefutureofhd]

when they decide to make movies like this, but don't bother with wonder woman, superman, or flash for example you have to wonder. lobo seems to be a more berserker version of wolverine and we already have that. there's got to be better characters to make movies out of. that's what i mean.

[paperthrower2000]

Originally Posted by 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.

Ha,I do not remember that storyline,Sounds like Lobo though.

[papaholmz]

Originally Posted by andyman1970

What does that mean?

That means that LOBO sounds like a retarded idea for a movie. Not to offend anyone who likes the comics, but an indestructible being that rides a space cycle and feeds intergalactic dolphins is about as lame an idea as I have ever heard for a movie.

-papaholmz

[Germtop]

Originally Posted by papaholmz

That means that LOBO sounds like a retarded idea for a movie. Not to offend anyone who likes the comics, but an indestructible being that rides a space cycle and feeds intergalactic dolphins is about as lame an idea as I have ever heard for a movie.

-papaholmz

It works in the comic because it's black humor.

I wouldn't compare Lobo to Wolverine but to Judge Dredd. It's a very similar type of hyper-violent, dark humor.

The question is whether they can translate that to the movie. I doubt it. Thry didn't do it with Judge Dredd.

[MyBlu-rayBrotherEd]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=58725

Warner Bros. Pictures has set Guy Ritchie to direct Lobo, a live action adaptation of the DC Comics title about an alien interstellar bounty hunter, reports Variety.

Don Payne wrote the most recent script draft, and Joel Silver, Akiva Goldsman and Andrew Rona will produce. The film is a co-production between Silver Pictures and Weed Road.

In the film, says the trade, Lobo will be a seven-foot tall, blue-skinned, indestructible and heavily muscled anti-hero who drives a pimped out motorcycle, and lands on Earth in search of four fugitives who are bent on wreaking havoc. Lobo teams with a small town teenaged girl to stop the creatures.

Production on Lobo begins early next year. The studio is aiming for a PG-13 rating.

[vegeta88]

Originally Posted by ed4246

Lobo teams with a small town teenaged girl to stop the creatures.

I wonder if they have anyone in mind. I bet there is a name they are looking at but I won't mention it as this will no doubt turn into a thread about her.

Lobo could be a good film. I don't know muc abut him save for what I leanred from Superman: TAS and the comic series 52. Maybe they should get Brad Garret in a suit as he has the right voice.

[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.

[jasonicus]

That PG-13 rating is going to kill this film. They need to reconsider that.

[SlmShdy1]

Originally Posted by vegeta88

Lobo could be a good film. I don't know muc abut him save for what I leanred from Superman: TAS and the comic series 52. Maybe they should get Brad Garret in a suit as he has the right voice

That's all I know of him too. Like, he's the last of his race because he killed everyone else on his home world. God, I loved that Collector episode. He frickin' cracks me up. Much funnier than Wolverine.

[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

[luwanda]

My favourite comic books in my childhood. along with Spawn... and they will destroy it making the movie, as they did with Spawn.