Variety reports that former ‘Mr Madonna’ Guy Ritchie, currently working on the Robert Downey Jr/Jude Law-starring Sherlock Holmes movie (which is creating quite a buzz in movie circles) will be directing a film based on DC Comics’ Lobo for his next flick. The alien bounty hunter, created by Keith Giffen and Roger Slifer, was originally meant to be a pastiche of over the top action in comics but his brand of cartoony lashings of the old ultra-violence propelled him to much popularity, not least when writer Alan Grant teamed up with artist Simon Bisley for a spell on Lobo; hard to imagine a better writer-artist pairing for a humorously violent, muscle-bound anti-authority, anti-hero figure.
(Simon Bisley’s pretty definitive interpretation of Lobo, (c) DC Comics)
According to Variety Warner Brothers are aiming for a PG-13 rating in the US, so I’d imagine the violence will be suitably ridiculous rather than simply gratuitous. Production on Lobo should begin next year, a reminder, as Variety notes, that while Marvel (especially with news of the Disney deal this week) is dominating the big studio comics-to-movies adaptations right now DC and WB still have a number of projects in hand, including The Losers (which I rather fancy) and Green Lantern. According to Reelz Channel uber-producer Joel Silver is planning to use motion capture animation technology similar to Cameron’s Avatar to realise the enormous, indestructible alien bounty hunter.
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