Friday
Apr202012
Lobo Movie Has New Writer/Director - Warner Brothers' Sanity Called Into Question
Fri, April 20, 2012 
Guy Ritchie was supposed to do a Lobo movie. Then he realized it's not the mid 90s anymore and he'd rather do another Sherlock Holmes instead.
Warner Brothers thinks there's an audience somewhere as they've assigned Brad Peyton, fresh off the surprise success of Journey 2: The Mysterious Island to write and direct reports "TOLDJA." They're still licking those Green Lantern wounds and after The Man of Steel next June they'll no longer have the Christopher Nolan tit to suckle from anymore.
And they have a stock-pile of DC scripts taking space at the Burbank offices like The Flash, Wonder Woman, Justice League and even obscure stuff like The Spectre and Adam Strange. Where's the logic in picking DC's intergalactic bounty hunter instead?
Reader Comments (1)
Maybe they believe that Lobo has a more general appeal than some of the more well-known comic characters. Hear me out a bit on that...
It's possible that his relative obscurity could serve to help Lobo, as it would not necessarily be seen as a "comic book" movie, so much as a cinematic romp of an insane bloody action film. I mean, Dog the Bounty Hunter in space with no restraints on violence seems like a concept studios would green-light whether it had a comic book history or not.