Every Comic Character I Thought Was Awesome in 6th Grade Becomes a Movie

A Venom movie, Youngblood movie, and now a Lobo movie?

Warner Bros. has locked Guy Ritchie to direct “Lobo,” the live action adaptation of the DC Comics drama about an alien interstellar bounty hunter.

Production on “Lobo” begins early next year. The character originated in 1983 in “Omega Men,” written by Roger Slifer and Keith Giffen. Lobo has had several comic incarnations. In the film, he is 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.

WB is aiming for a PG-13 rating. Pic will be strong on visual effects, and Ritchie will bring the irreverent, gruff tone of past films like "Snatch" and "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels."

Lobo creator Keith Giffen once said in an interview, "I came up with him as an indictment of the Punisher, Wolverine, bad ass hero prototype and somehow he caught on as the high violence poster boy." So the idea of Guy Ritchie using his Snatchiness to make the character both an uber-bad-ass and drastically toned down to a PG-13 rating is, really, doubly unfaithful. Well done, Hollywood. Your interests in fulfilling fan desires have reached new levels of willful obliviousness.