DC Comics character Lobo has been up for a movie adaptation for years, going through various hands but never actually getting that close to being made. Now Journey 2: The Mysterious Island director Brad Peyton has signed up to re-write the screenplay and direct Lobo, according to Deadline.
Back in January 2010, Guy Ritchie left the project to direct the fast-tracked sequel Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. It’s taken a couple of years to get it going again, but now the film is moving forward with Peyton attached.
Lobo is an interstellar bounty hunter and mercenary who travels the galaxy looking for his next target. The character was created in 1984 by Roger Slifer and Keith Giffen, and initially popped up as an occasional villain. However he reached his greatest levels of popularity in the 1990s, when he was resurrected as a renegade biker.