First Look LOBO Script Review!

[protocida]

It could be cool, but it would fail.

 

[tyler-durden]

I'd be interesting for the marketing department to pay homage to some iconic Lobo images that made him such a cult figure.

For me, 'the Last Czarnian' was the story which made Lobo so god-damned cool on a whole other level (a coolness level that, if I'm honest, I honestly dont think he's ever reached since) so I'd like them to use some Bizley pieces (the quintessential Lobo artist in my mind - no other artist imo has been able to capture Lobo as well as he can).

Imagine these as movie posters only using the actual actor:-

Just how badass would that look? Not to mention striking when seen as a standee at the local cinema..................

And, of course, this one just has to be used for the sequel:-

These images are so BA, I would love these as posters, especially the first one, which screams crazy psychopath killer with a sense of humor.

 

[theMan-Bat]

It could be cool, but it would fail.

What would fail is this uninspired Hellboy rip-off script. Warner Brothers obviously wants to use Lobo to compete with Columbia Pictures Hellboy movies by ripping off Columbia Pictures Hellboy movies. Lobo found as a baby is an obvious rip-off of Hellboy found as a baby in Hellboy. Kayla McGuee with mental abilities is basically Liz Sherman with mental abilities in Hellboy. The ancient artefact know as The Drown is obviously a rip-off of the ancient artefacts in the two Hellboy movies. We've already seen Hellboy and Lobo is nothing like Hellboy and a Lobo movie should show that. Lobo: The Last Czarnian would not fail as a movie. It's nothing like Hellboy, it's original, there's plenty of action and plenty of humor, the interactions between Lobo and Miss Tribb are hilarious.

 

[chiefchirpa]

Lobo project is as idiotic as Venom.

 

[AnorexicBatman]

Thank You!!! Someone who sees the light!

 

[Webhead2006]

I said it before its doubtful this project would ever get off the ground. if it did yea i would be curious to check it out to see if its anything good.

 

[Brian Braddock]

Lobo project is as idiotic as Venom.

Did New Line find the idea of a Blade movie idiotic when it was pitched to them?

It is possible for cult supporting characters to get movies greenlit ahead of more senior characters. It is also possible that, done right, the end result can be quite worthwhile.

 

[AnorexicBatman]

At least Blade is good guy and didn't commit genocide or tear of someone's arm just for fun

 

[Brian Braddock]

Immaterial.

I mean, granted, they arent exactly the same characters but but they are both essentially anti-heroes.

Anti-heroes as title movie characters can be quite successful from time to time.

 

[AnorexicBatman]

Lobo is a villain...
Venom does good things occasionally....

When was the last time Lobo did anything remotely good?
It's only in the animated universe that his interactions with Superman that change him for the better to the point he once helped the Justice League

 

[Brian Braddock]

>sigh< Lobo isnt just a plain ol' villain.

He's been portrayed as various different things over the years. Like the best anti-heroes of 70's cinema - he's not just black and white, my friend. There are shades of grey.

Anti-hero bounty hunter with a sense of honour (and psyhcotic tendancies) being my favourite incarnation. Sure, he's done terrible things and has been the bad guy in story arcs but he's also been the good guy, even if he does it in warped ways at times.

Look, with all the best will in the world - the mood I'm in at the moment, I frankly cant be bothered to type a long-winded explanation as to what he is so perhaps this will help:-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobo_(DC_Comics)

 

[MadVillainy]

Lobo would make for an interesting movie, and I'll see it opening day when it comes out but as others said I have doubts that it would come out anytime soon

 

[The Guard]

The HELLBOY connections didn't even occur to me. Bleah.

 

[04nbod]

Lobo is a villain...
Venom does good things occasionally....

When was the last time Lobo did anything remotely good?
It's only in the animated universe that his interactions with Superman that change him for the better to the point he once helped the Justice League

He was a 'good guy' in Brave and the Bold: Lords of Luck and of course his time in L.E.G.I.O.N. But he's Lobo he can never be good, just tone it down.

 

[The Guard]

He was sort of "good" in YOUNG JUSTICE when he was Lil Lobo, too.

 

[Lobo]

Slobo was fun

Lobo isn't really good or bad, he's just going to do whatever suits him, regardless of right or wrong. And, he'll do anything for the right price

 

[Dark Knight]

What would fail is this uninspired Hellboy rip-off script. Warner Brothers obviously wants to use Lobo to compete with Columbia Pictures Hellboy movies by ripping off Columbia Pictures Hellboy movies. Lobo found as a baby is an obvious rip-off of Hellboy found as a baby in Hellboy. Kayla McGuee with mental abilities is basically Liz Sherman with mental abilities in Hellboy. The ancient artefact know as The Drown is obviously a rip-off of the ancient artefacts in the two Hellboy movies. We've already seen Hellboy and Lobo is nothing like Hellboy and a Lobo movie should show that. Lobo: The Last Czarnian would not fail as a movie. It's nothing like Hellboy, it's original, there's plenty of action and plenty of humor, the interactions between Lobo and Miss Tribb are hilarious.

If they do make it like Hellboy....then yeah...it will fail.

However, if they keep the budget around 70-80 million, it will make a profit.

 

[cerealkiller182]

Lobo is as much a villain as Snake Plissken, hence the comparison since the beginning, or Riddick. Hes not a good guy, but u love him anyway. Hes a bounty hunter, and like most fictional bounty hunters, can find himself on either side of the law.

Will it get made? Probably not given WBs seemingly lack of faith in comics. Not to say they should speed up, just that for a long time considering Bats and Supes were there only projects they really pushed i find it hard to believe they would jump at Lobo

 

[Webhead2006]

Yea it does suck that they seem like they dont have faith in other characters besides bats/supers. But i guess after the failures of batman and robin, catwomen to name a few they just dont see the need for these properties when they can do films like harry potter instead. That one thing i hate about wb their lack in faith in these characters. At least marvel is willing to give a character a shot on the big screen sucess or failure they get the property out there.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Lobo project is as idiotic as Venom.

Agreed.

 

[[A]]

but LOBO is not a serious character.. VENOM on the other hand, with all his drama and.. whatever yeah, it sounds stupid

 

[theMan-Bat]

I would LOVE to know where Superman was when Lobo arrives to Earth in his solo movie...

Here are excerpts from the book Superman vs. Hollywood about the Superman vs. Lobo script Keith Giffen wrote in 2000.

From AICN October 18, 2000:
"And right now... On Lorenzo's Desk at Warner Brothers lays the greatest Superhero Movie Ever To Be Made!"

"Hey folks, Harry here, and boy oh boy... If Warner Brothers actually ponies up and has the balls to make the film I'm gonna tell you about... Dear God, it is one helluva movie.

SUPERMAN was supposed to be dead at Warner Brothers... but really what they meant by that was... DEATH OF SUPERMAN / That whole Doomsday thing was dead. They'll never stop development entirely on the man of steel... He means too much to the coffers of the public holding Warner Stock to be completely forgotten.

However, the development process has been very very hush hush... Very much on the qt. Well, I teamed up with Houdini... the world's greatest escape artist to free this information for the likes of you and me.

Now I know many of you comic fans are familiar with a writer/artist by the name of Keith Giffen. He created an immensely popular DC character by the name of LOBO (not the AICN aging lycanthrope). And for years we've heard about a Lobo script, and how the property was in development. Well...

About 4 weeks ago a 17 page scriptment written by Keith Giffen landed upon the desk of one Jon Peters and one Lorenzno DiBonanventura. Well Nanobot 01, instantly reported that there was a scriptment for SUPERMAN that Lorenzo was very excited and charged for...

Well the next 3 weeks began an immense campaign to learn as much as possible about these 17 pages. Contacting spies from around the globe. Moriarty made seven attempts on Lorenzo's office himself, but the Mastiffs in the sewers beneath Warners... and then there was Eastwood walking around with a 357 Magnum keeping Moriarty at bay.

That was when suddenly a name from long long ago came to mind. Houdini. It has been over 3 and a half years since Houdini made his presence known. Now, while Nanobot 01 coordinated Lorenzo, the janitor, the security team, the assistants and secretaries coming and goings timed to a fine art... it was determined that it would be impossible. Houdini said, "Noone besides Lorenzo himself can get in there."

EUREKA! That's it!

Houdini is a master hypnotist, and through Nanobot 01's onboard speaker system... Houdini was faxed the 17 pages right out of the office. Muhahahaha... Next up... A.I., though according to Nanobot 01, there is no A.I. script at Lorenzo's office... Bummer.

Yeah yeah, I know... you don't care how we got it... You just want to know how it is.

Well... Keith Giffen's SUPERMAN scriptment is nothing short of being the most ambitious and thrilling concept I've yet seen for a Superhero film.

Superman's foe in the film isn't Braniac or Lex Luthor or any of the typical Superman stable of bad guys. Instead, Keith created a story in which an alien mafia organization that... well... that wanted a resource... very common on earth... but is the greatest most thrilling drug known in existence in their sector of the galaxy.... So they hire Lobo to visit Earth and Kill Superman.

The differences between Lobo and Superman keep this film alive at a breathless pace. It also instantly opens up 2 franchises...

The other great aspect is it opens up the vast scope of the D.C. universe... that Superman is really a global protector... not just Metropolis. I also like that the film takes place in a pivotal place in Clark and Lois' relationship where they are just beginning to see each other as something more than friends and associates. I love that Lois' sister is here... That Jimmy Olsen is basically a teenager/early college age. That Perry White smokes cigars. That the Daily Planet has a globe.

I love how Lobo is an utter badass scuzzy bastard... but in a really blue collar sort of way. I love the epic scope of the battle... as it is everybit as large in scale as DOOMSDAY's battle... but moreso even... and I love that we visit other planets, alien cantinas.... Lobo's asteroid home... Using the term TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE to describe the visual aesthetic of Lobo's home. I love Lobo's spacehog, his terminology about 'fraggin' and how he smells Superman on Lois' breath... and how damn violent this gets.. but still how at moments it has that feel of innocence and fair play and the right sense of duty.

The film would be expensive (and I mean real expensive), but that is exactly as it should be. Do we want Superman fighting regular criminals? No, we want him fighting battles where he can't beat the guy he's fighting, because as mild mannered humans ourselves... we need that sort of association to feel for the lug.
I love how Lobo's word of honor is absolute... I love how he sticks to the letter of a contract. How he drinks brews, smokes cigars, who's smoke will cause a regular man to pass out.

I have always loved Kevin Smith's script for SUPERMAN LIVES, but I never really cared for the basic Doomsday... DEATH OF SUPERMAN storyline. Sure it sold a billion issues of the comic... but that was speculation by folks that were investing and buying multiple copies in the prayers of financing college educations and a trip to Vegas.... not that the story was inherantly great.

Now... Will we ever see this? I can't imagine that the script will be done in time for the pre-strike universe of film. BUT... This film must be made. When you see Lobo haul off and hit Superman upside the jaw and you see him skip across the bay of Metropolis and into the base of a bridge leaving an imprint of his body shape in steel below.

For some strange feeling I kept picturing Benicio Del Toro as the voice of Lobo... Maybe it's just me. I can't even think or a really solid Supes (besides Bruce Campbell of course hehehehe) Oh... and Superman wears his SUPERMAN COSTUME, flies and has heat vision, cold breath.... and all of that. Well, basically... that's where it's at. My understanding is that Keith Geffin is at work on the script now. Personally... I can't wait! This read like a dream." - Harry Knowles, October 18, 2000.

They should pull out that script and make that movie, as well as a movie of Keith Giffen's Lobo: The Last Czarnian.

 

[Nivek]

Are they finally getting another script on a Lobo movie? I love Lobo, but I really don't think it will never happen. The character is too wacked out to do properly, Unless it's the Crank guys and at least a $60 million budget.

 

[Lobo]

Are they finally getting another script on a Lobo movie? I love Lobo, but I really don't think it will never happen. The character is too wacked out to do properly, Unless it's the Crank guys and at least a $60 million budget.

yes there's a new script. You can hear about it here

 

[protocida]

Superman VS. Lobo.

That's be awesome.