Sep 3 2009Every 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.
Reader Comments
1. HeyHey - September 3, 2009 2:12 PM
looks like Wolverine and the Hulk had a kid..
2. John - September 3, 2009 2:31 PM
Lobo is a terrible, terrible character and Guy Ritchie is going to make a terrible, terrible movie. You'd be better off watching Hellboy with a filter to make him blue.
3. Binty McLone - September 3, 2009 4:28 PM
This won't be good.
I'm pretty certain.
Unless Ritchie makes Lobo an East End Gangster/Bounty Hunter.
Wow that would be original.
For Ritchie.
4. J-Red - September 3, 2009 4:47 PM
Why do people think movies based on comic books need to be PG-13? Why? I think the definition of ANTI HERO includes VIOLENCE. As in, R rated Violence. Watchmen: Anti-heroes: R. Punisher: Anti-hero: R. It's as if someone made a Die Hard movie PG-13 and now everyone thinks they can get away with toning down violence.......................Damn.
And you know what? Not all "heroes" are PG-13 worthy, either. Robocop, who puts the force in police force, is a lethal crime fighter. Hands down. Yet he's on the "right" side of the law
5. wotty - September 3, 2009 5:15 PM
"Lobo teams with a small town teenaged girl to stop the creatures." Well, they fucked up already. Lobo does not team up with anyone. BASTICHES!
6. Ed - September 3, 2009 6:08 PM
Watchmen and the latest Punisher both bombed. You can have over the top violence and not be R as well.
7. John - September 3, 2009 6:21 PM
Well, R would certainly help with certain properties, but even an NC-17 level violence wouldn't help this at all. Lobo just isn't movie worthy, and the only incarnation of him that was any good was the Superman animated series guest spots(which was basically equivalent to a light PG). He was a satire, never meant to be a legitimate character.
8. Fors - September 4, 2009 10:34 AM
Like John I remember Lobo from the Superman animated series.
I always thought that guy was pretty cool, even if he wasn't a good guy.
I don't think there's any way to do his character any justice if he's played as a good guy. ESPECIALLY teamed up with a girl. I just don't see it.
9. boxerthehorse - September 4, 2009 10:41 AM
Maybe he'll cast Madonna as Lobo........
10. BonnieBell - September 4, 2009 1:03 PM
Drat it!!!!
LOBO as a PG-13 movie will SUCK!!!
Wish they had gone with the Easterbunny hiring a hit on Santa storyline. Now that was funny anti-hero stuff!
"BITE ME, Fanboy!!!!"
Well, at least might make my Lobo comic collection appreciate in value if the movie is at all halfway decent.
11. Warghost - September 4, 2009 1:26 PM
Hollywood has fucked up yet again. Seriously, WHY do they have to screw up great franchises? Why do they have potentially badass characters team up with some stupid child? Apparently they think it will make kids relate to the movie's main character better, but who fucking cares?? Lobo was always a controversial character whose comic was always intended for ADULT audiences. The two newest Batman movies did well because they were made for ADULTS. Same with Iron Man. Batman Forever and Batman & Robin were made for kids, and they sucked ass. Fantastic Four 1 & 2 were made for kids, and they suck!! The new Star Wars movies were made for kids, and they suck!
All of these great franchises are being tarnished, which causes the movie studios to "reboot" so many intellectual properties over and over again because the ticket sales falter. The next Superman movie is to be yet another "reboot" because so many people couldn't follow the story. Superman is apparently a deadbeat dad/peeping Tom now. Thanks Bryan Singer! That caused moviegoers to get confused and lose interest. When will people learn that Bryan Singer is not good enough to be making anything more than breakfast cereal commercials.
Bottom line: most Hollywood executives are not intelligent, and they have no clue what actually retains a solid fanbase. They are idiots who do not understand why people respect a great filmmaker like Chris Nolan instead of a moron like Paul W.S. Anderson who couldn't make a good movie to save his life. Hollywood execs have no clue why stupid people like Michael Bay are never able to make movies that are remembered longer than the summer they are released, as opposed to great film makers like James Cameron, who breaks records with every movie he makes.
Why are the people who run Hollywood so stupid? Anyone? I swear, I want to see all of these people just die. Better they die than ruining so many classic franchises.
12. cbobgo - September 4, 2009 3:02 PM
violent blue alien teams up with teen earth girl - wasn't that Lilo and Stitch?
13. Prof - September 5, 2009 5:06 AM
Lobo has always been a guilty pleasure! The concept of lobo is Citizen Kane compared to movies like Triple X or franchises like Fast and the Furious so yeah it could work especially as a fun summer popcorn muncher. If you want to play movie critic and long for a comic book character that makes you sit back & ponder your roll in the scheme of things, or discuss plot twists w/ riveting characterization @ Starbucks then Lobo is not for you! It doesn't mean it sucks or Lobo is a bad character it's just not for you. Now, if the bizarre concept of what The Benny Hill show (look it up on Youtube) would be like if it occurred in outer space with aliens & more bloodshed then Rambo, Shoot 'Em Up, & RoboCop combined then Lobo might be for you. Ok now for the gripes, if they do make the movie they should realize Lobo IS NOT BLUE HE's CHALK WHITE w black markings/hair WTF WHY change such a basic thing just for the sake of change- 1st mistake! Lobo is suppose to be about over the top action & violence. I know we now live in a increasingly effeminate culture, but to go for a PG-13 rating- mistake 2. U team up a alien that killed everyone on his own home planet 4 shits & giggles with a teenage girl... really... (sigh) - mistake #3! Anyway, I hope they put a few characters from his comics & mini series in, or (heaven forbid) just have it play out in space. I get tired of everything happening on Earth. To be a backwater primitive world we sure do get a lot of interstellar traffic. But hey what do I know, maybe Guy Ritchie will make more money then Transformers & G.I. Joe combined.