Dwayne Johnson To Play Lobo?

With Warner Brothers' curious decision to make Lobo the next DC Comics film after next year's Man of Steel, getting Brad Peyton onboard write and direct after producer Joel Silver and original director Guy Ritchie bailed out for Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, a potential actor is in the cards to play the titular antihero himself. And it's none other than Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, who's coming off two consecutive hits with his supporting role in Fast Five and his starring role in Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (which was also directed by Peyton).

Not only did Johnson make a cryptic answer about him playing a DC Comics character on Twitter a few days back, but Bleeding Cool got a report from an unknown, untested source that Johnson told a few partygoers that he had taken the Lobo role. So treat this as a rumor for now.

Johnson has a full plate of projects on his hands. He is currently shooting Michael Bay's Pain and Gain with Mark Wahlberg, and will reprise his role in Fast Six, which starts shooting this summer as well as reshoots for next year's G.I. Joe: Retaliation in the fall for Paramount. He is also attached to a third Journey film, with Peyton also attached to direct, as well as an in-development Hercules film at MGM.