Guy Ritchie to start filming Lobo movie next year

September 2, 9:02 PMColumbus Comic Books ExaminerWesley Smith

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Guy Ritchie, director of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and the upcoming Sherlock Holmes, is locked and loaded to start production on Lobo early next year.

From Variety:

Don Payne wrote the most recent script draft, and Joel Silver, Akiva Goldsman and Andrew Rona will produce the co-production of Silver Pictures and Weed Road.

Ritchie will make the film his follow-up to "Sherlock Holmes," the Silver-produced pic that stars Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law and Rachel McAdams.

Lobo, DC Comics’ “main man,” is an intergalactic bounty hunter who looks like a death metal freak and can regenerate his entire body from one drop of blood.

The character was created by Keith Giffen and Roger Slifer in Omega Men in 1983, but he rose to prominence in Giffen’s light-hearted version of Justice League before graduating to his own series written by Alan Grant and illustrated by Simon Bisley.

Lobo is regarded as something of a satire of violence and morality standards in super-hero comics. Everything about the character is excessive, from his powers to the amount of gore associated with most of his adventures.

Although production has not yet started, Ritchie is going for a PG-13 rating with Lobo, possibly attempting to attract an audience like the one for a similar character known for excessive violence and a healing factor who also got a PG-13, Wolverine.
 

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