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.

Photo: Brad Pitt

Daily Mirror had reported that Brad Pitt was to commence filming for Sherlock Holmes at locations like the Royal Victoria Dock, Pontoon Docks, Pinewood and Chatham Docks in Kent.

Now, usmagazine.com has quoted a studio representative as saying that the Daily Mirror report is completely inaccurate. “Brad Pitt is not joining the cast of Sherlock Holmes and we’re extremely pleased with the production of the film. As planned, it will be released on Christmas Day, 2009.”

He also said that to complete the movie, “we’ve scheduled a few days on set to shoot a couple of additional scenes, obtain pick-up shots, and perfect some of the visual effects elements, all of which is standard filmmaking practice.”

The Daily Mirror had claimed that Guy Ritchie, who has worked with Pitt in the 2000 Snatch, had asked Pitt to join the cast.

“It’s a huge coup to have Brad joining the cast. He has worked for Guy before and said if he could, he would do anything to help out,” the paper had quoted a soure as saying.

Sherlock Holmes, that will be released in 2010, stars Robert Downey Jr. in the titular role. The movie will also star Jude Law as Dr. Watson, Rachel McAdams as Irene Adin, and Mark Strong as Lord Blackwood.

Sherlock Holmes will be based on the classic book by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle by the same name as well as the upcoming Sherlock Holmes comic book by Lionel Wigram.

Guy Ritchie, who has also scripted the movie, had said earlier that Sherlock Holmes will be a gritty, Bondesque contemporary remake in which Sherlock Holmes will be portrayed as a skilled swordsman.

The movie will be produced by Joel Silver, Lionel Wigram, Susan Downey and Dan Lin.

In other news, Brad Pitt has replaced Robert Downey Jr. in the superhero movie, Oobermind, after the former walked out of the project. Directed by Tom McGrath, Oobermind will be released in December 2010.