Guy Ritchie Goes Sci-fi with DC Comics Lobo

By Kevin Coll • September 2, 2009 • 3 Comments

Snatch director, Guy Ritchie is trying his hands at every genre these days and now the Sherlock Holmes director is locked for an adaptation of Lobo, a DC Comics drama about an alien interstellar bounty hunter. Don Payne wrote the most recent script draft, and Joel Silver, Akiva Goldsman and Andrew Rona are producing.

Ritchie will make the film his follow-up to Sherlock Holmes, the Silver-produced film that stars Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law and Rachel McAdams, which Warner Bros. opens Christmas Day.

Production is scheduled to begin early next year. The comic 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. The film will be strong on visual effects, and Ritchie will bring the irreverent, gruff tone of past films like Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.

All the attention on Disney and Marvel we forget about DC Comics and their ongoing relationship with Warner Brothers. DC/WB has many projects set for the next few years including The Losers and Jonah Hex. As we know the WB recently set Ryan Reynolds to play the title character in the Martin Campbell-directed Green Lantern. DC Comics is a WB-owned entity, and Gregory Noveck steers the film adaptations for DC.

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