DC’s ‘Lobo’ Gets ‘Wonder Woman’ Screenwriter Jason Fuchs
After the massive success of 20th Century Fox’sDeadpool, it was only a matter of time until we heard about Warner Bros. resurrecting the long-in-developmentLobo, another slightly less familiar and more adult comic book property. Unsurprisingly, the studio is once again focusing on the project and has just tapped screenwriterJason Fuchs(Wonder Woman) to write the latest draft for the comic book adaptation.
This is the third collaboration between Warner Bros. and Fuchs that we know of. The screenwriter first soldPanas a spec to the studio. The finished film was a notable box office bomb and critical misfire, but from what I’ve heard, the movie that was shot was very different from the one audiences saw. The studiomayhave lost around $150 million on Pan’s origin story. But they must be quite pleased with Fuch’s rewrites onWonder Woman, which is currently filming, since according toThe Wrap, they’re letting him tackle another one of DC’s characters.
Insiders tell The Wrap that the screenwriter isn’t working off of any old drafts; he’s starting completely from scratch. UnlikeThe FlashorCyborg,Lobocurrently isn’t on Warner Bros.’s release schedule for the next few years. Perhaps if the script is right andBatman v Superman: Dawn of Justicesuccessfully launches the new DC Movie Universe, maybe we’ll see this character on the big screen sooner than we expect.
Created by byRoger SliferandKeith Giffen, Lobo made his first appearance in 1983. The alien is an interstellar mercenary and bounty hunter, but the character later made a resurgence as an anti-hero biker in the 1990’s. A few years ago, the plan was to depict the more popular “seven-foot tall, blue-skinned, indestructible and heavily muscled anti-hero” version of the character.Guy Ritchie(The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) was going todirectthat iteration of the project, withJoel Silver,Akiva GoldsmanandAndrew Ronaproducing. That script, written byAngel DeanLopez,Don Payne(My Super Ex-Girlfriend) andJerrold E. Brown(Prey), was set on Earth as well.
Back in 2012, directorBrad Peyton(San Andreas) signed up to directLobo. Peyton was set to reunite withDwayne Johnsonfor the film, but Johnsonlatersaid, after we heard no further developments on the project, that “[Lobo] was [happening] for a minute, but then it kind of… just… went away. As things happen in Hollywood.” The Wrap doesn’t say whether Peyton is still attached to the film, but Johnson has sincemoved onto play Black Adam for Warner Bros.
