Clancy Brown to Step into DC Entertainment’s Lobo?
Guy Ritchie’s next film is Lobo, based off the DC Comics character. It seems they are interested in Clancy Brown to play the role of the title character. If you asked a hundred people who Clancy Brown was 10 may give you the right answer. Regarded as one of the best character actors and genre actors, Clancy Brown is known to many as The Kurgan from the cult classic Highlander. He also played a character in the cult show, Lost.
IGN says that a source close to production told them that Brown might be the man. Apparently with the amount of special effects needed to create the character, there isn’t too much concern in bringing in a high profile name to lead this project.
“Ultimately regardless of whether you do it all CG or its a guy in a suit, with CG, you’ll still end up doing a lot of CG animation. So do you need a celebrity? Do you need a name or do you just get someone who is good and who’s gonna nail it?“
It seems studios are realizing the benefit of casting unknowns realizing based on many this summer’s biggest hits (Star Trek and District 9) had unknowns in it showing that star power isn’t a big deal to audiences anymore.
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.
