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Lobo
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StarringJason Momoa
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Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Lobo is a potential American superhero film based on the eponymous character from DC Comics. Produced by DC Studios and to be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, it would be part of the DC Universe (DCU). The film would star Jason Momoa in the titular role.

Several attempts at adapting Lobo to film started in the late 1990s. By December 2024, Momoa had been cast in the title role for the DCU.

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Jerrold E. Brown had written a screenplay for a comedic film featuring the DC Comics character Lobo by May 1998, with Joel Silver attached to produce for Warner Bros. through his production company Silver Pictures. Angel Dean Lopez had written a prior draft.[2][3] Don Payne had revised the script by April 2009.[2] In September, Guy Ritchie signed on to direct a Lobo film, from Payne's script, as his follow-up to Sherlock Holmes (2009). The film was to be produced by Silver and Andrew Rona of Silver Pictures and Akiva Goldsman through his production company Weed Road Pictures. Payne's script focused on Lobo as an antihero who teams up with a teenage girl from a small town on Earth while searching for four alien fugitives set on wreaking havoc. The film was intended to heavily feature visual effects, with filming slated to begin in early 2010. It was expected to have a similar irreverent and gruff tone as Ritchie's prior films Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) and Snatch (2000), while Warner Bros. Pictures intended for it to receive a PG-13 rating from the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).[4] Silver said they had done a test for the film by November that was intended to be shown at San Diego Comic-Con.[5] Following the success of Sherlock Holmes, Ritchie exited Lobo in January 2010 to focus on a sequel to that film, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011), which was a priority for Warner Bros. and Silver, who believed a different director would be hired for Lobo.[6] In April 2012, Brad Peyton was hired to direct and rewrite the script,[7] and the following month, Dwayne Johnson hinted at his involvement in a DC film shortly before he was reported to be linked to the Lobo role, having previously working with Peyton on Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012).[8][9] Johnson confirmed that he was having discussions about the role in July.[10]

In February 2013, Johnson said he was not attached to Lobo, explaining that he was interested in the project but that it "just went away",[11] and Peyton later explained that development had stalled because Warner Bros. was focused on developing films for more established DC characters, such as the Justice League;[12] Johnson and Peyton instead worked together on San Andreas (2015) and Rampage (2018).[13] Will Smith was being eyed for the role by April 2013,[14] but was later cast as Floyd Lawton / Deadshot in the DC film Suicide Squad (2016).[15] At the end of December, Johnson announced that he had discussed a role with Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment executives,[16] and they had agreed on a character for him to portray by March 2014, with Johnson describing the role as a "badass motherfucker" and "extremely complex". Some commentators believed this was referring to Lobo.[17][18] The following month, Warner Bros. and DC had begun planning a slate of superhero films for its shared universe, the DC Extended Universe (DCEU),[19] and Johnson announced in September that he would portray the comic book villain Black Adam in the DCEU film Shazam! (2019);[20] he later dropped out from that film in January 2017 to headline a standalone film for the character, Black Adam (2022), as an antihero.[21]

Jason Fuchs, a co-writer of the DCEU film Wonder Woman (2017), was hired in March 2016 to write a new script for Lobo.[22] He confirmed he was working on the film that June and indicated he was drawing inspiration from the trade paperback Lobo: Portrait of a Bastich, a collection of the four-issue Lobo series and the Lobo's Back miniseries co-written by Lobo co-creator Keith Giffen.[23] In December 2017, it was reported that the film was not likely moving forward.[24] By February 2018, Michael Bay had met with DC Films and Warner Bros. regarding the film, which the studios were eyeing for him to direct. He had provided some notes for Fuchs to incorporate in rewrites of the script, which would then be shown to Bay before negotiations began.[25][26] Fuchs expressed his love for the Lobo character and contrasted the film with Wonder Woman, saying he intended to closely adapt the spirit of the comics.[27] His script was described as being for a tentpole production that would cost more than $200 million to produce, although, both Bay and the studios expressed a desire for the rewrites to scale down their approach for a lower budget.[26] The studios hoped to replicate the success of the Marvel Comics film Deadpool (2016) with the film.[25] In September, Johnson advocated for his Rampage co-star Jeffrey Dean Morgan to portray Lobo, after he expressed interest in the role.[13] The following month, Emmett J. Scanlan was cast as Lobo for the second season of the DC television series Krypton (2019), produced by Warner Horizon Television for the television network Syfy.[28] The film was still in development by June 2019 when a spin-off series from Krypton was also being developed, with Scanlan expected to reprise his role and Krypton executive producer Cameron Welsh writing the pilot and producing,[29] but it was not moving forward that August following the cancelation of Krypton.[30]

Discovery, Inc. and Warner Bros.' parent company WarnerMedia—the owner of DC—merged in April 2022 to become Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), led by president and CEO David Zaslav. The new company was expected to restructure DC Entertainment and Zaslav began searching for an equivalent to Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige to lead the new subsidiary.[31] Writer/director James Gunn and producer Peter Safran were announced as the co-chairmen and co-CEOs of the newly formed DC Studios at the end of October 2022.[32] A week after starting their new roles, the pair had begun planning a new franchise, the DC Universe (DCU), that would be a "soft reboot" of the DCEU.[33][34][35] Following rumors that the DCEU's Aquaman actor, Jason Momoa, would be recast as the character Lobo in the DCU following the DCEU film Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023),[36] he was reported in October 2023 to have had discussions with DC Studios about playing that character in the first DCU film, Superman (2025), or a standalone film.[37] In December 2024, Momoa was reported to be portraying Lobo in the second DCU film, Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow (2026). He confirmed the casting by referencing an interview from a year earlier in which he expressed interest in the role.[1] David Leitch, who worked with Momoa on The Fall Guy (2024), expressed his desire to direct a Lobo film with the actor soon after his casting was announced.[38]

References

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