With most of the really famous comic book characters already having had their own movie, Hollywood is certainly scouring the lesser known creations with an eye to upping their profile and turning them into a film franchise. One such character is DC Comics Lobo, who started out in the early 80s as a interstellar mercenary and bounty hunter, while Variety says that in the film he’ll be a 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 teenage girl to stop the creatures.
Guy Ritchie is has now signed up to direct the adaptation, which will be his biggest studio project to date. However fans of the comic are already slightly concerned, not becuase of Ritchie’s presence, but because the studio is going for a PG-13 rating. Although Lobo started out as a satire on the violence in other comics, in his most famous incarnation he was responsible for full-on carnage himself, and those who’ve seen the script have said it’s a compromise between the comic and big-budget studio demands. However let’s just hope they keep the humour intact, as in many ways that’s what sets Lobo apart.
Getting divorced from Madonna seems to be good for your career. Sean Penn didn’t become one of the greatest actors of his generation until after he and the singer divorced in 1989, and now Guy Ritchie’s gone from making small but often well liked movies like Snatch and Lock, Stock to helming Sherlock Holmes (which is due out at Christmas) and now a major studio comic book movie. It’s rather like with Tom Cruise, as both Nicole Kidman and Penelope Cruz only won Oscars after they’d ended their relationships with his. So our advise is to marry Madonna and then divorce her, because it seems like a great way to a massive career.