Guy Ritchie to direct DC Comics’ Lobo movie

Variety has reported that Warner Bros has roped in Guy Ritchie to direct Lobo, a movie adaptation of DC Comics’ galaxy-hopping bounty hunter character of the same name.

Guy Ritchie will direct Lobo movie

The movie will go into production in 2010. Lobo is being penned by Don Payne, and produced by Joel Silver, Akiva Goldsman and Andrew Rona will produce.

Lobo will be co-produced by Silver Pictures and Weed Road. Steve Richards and Kerry Foster will exec-produce.

The character of Lobo, created by Roger Slifer and Keith Giffen, first appeared in 1983 in Omega Men.

Lobo is an interstellary bounty hunter with great strength who enjoys violence and mayhem. You can say he is the badshah of violence, always inventive in the ways of destroying entire populations if he is in the mood to do so.

Lobo can take on Superman, he never grows old, he is immune to injuries, and if he does get hurt he can heal before you say “What the…

Variety has reported that in the movie, Lobo will be an “indestructible, blue-skinned, 7-foot-tall and heavily muscled antihero who drives a pimped-out motorcycle and lands on Earth in search of four fugitives bent on wreaking havoc.”

Lobo along with a small-town teenaged girl will take on the alien creatures.

Lobo has appeared in a couple of episodes of the Superman: The Animated Series, on TV.

As far as movies go, there has been only one movie version to Lobo’s name, the 2002 Scott Leberecht-directed The Lobo Paramilitary Christmas Special, starring Andrew Bryniarski as Lobo.

Guy Ritchie’s Lobo will come with a PG-13 rating.

Will the loutish Lobo click with audiences? Considering Lobo has no real fan base, it depends totally on the treatment. If Guy Ritchie can flesh out the character of Lobo without altering the essence of it, Lobo could be a very interesting anti-superhero movie.

Ritchie is currently working on Sherlock Holmes, starring Robert Downey Jr. as Holmes and Jude Law as Dr. Watson.