Guy Ritchie to Direct Live Action Film Adaptation of Lobo

Posted on September 2, 2009

Variety reports that Guy Ritchie has signed on to direct the live action feature film adaptation about Lobo, the DC Comics interstellar bounty hunter. Akiva Goldsman and Andrew Rona will produce and Don Payne wrote the script.

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.
Lobo will be Guy's next film after Sherlock Holmes which premieres Christmas Day, 2009. We wonder who he has in mind for Lobo. It's going to have to be someone who doesn't mind six hours in a makeup chair every day. Hey, aren't the aliens in James Cameron's Avatar also seven feet tall with blue skin? It must be a new fashion trend.

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