MOVIE NEWS – Jason Momoa is leaving Atlantis behind and stepping into a brand-new DC venture this summer: he’s playing Lobo in Supergirl. The actor says the foul-mouthed Czarnian bounty hunter has long been his ultimate dream role – one he wanted even more than Aquaman. Supergirl arrives on June 26, and while it’s still unclear how large Lobo’s presence will be, Momoa’s long-awaited wish is finally becoming reality.
DC’s King of Atlantis, Jason Momoa, is trading his saltwater throne for a completely different kind of chaos this summer as he joins Supergirl as Lobo. According to Momoa himself, the blue-skinned bounty hunter from the planet Czarnia was the DC character he wanted most – even before he ever suited up as Arthur Curry. Speaking on TODAY, Momoa didn’t hold back when asked to tease his latest role:
“He’s amazing – it’s my ultimate dream to play Lobo. I wanted to play him more than Aquaman. This is it.”
With Supergirl set to hit theaters on June 26, it’s still unknown how much screen time will be devoted to Lobo’s big-screen debut. In the first trailer for the DCU blockbuster – which prominently reintroduces Milly Alcock as Kara Zor-El, Superman’s cousin – Momoa’s cigar-chomping alien is only visible for a couple of seconds. Since Matthias Schoenaerts’ Krem of the Yellow Hills is expected to be the film’s primary villain, it seems likely that Supergirl will function as a cameo-style gateway for Lobo, setting him up for a much larger future in the franchise.
Momoa has also previously revealed that he once misunderstood a phone call from Zack Snyder, believing it was an offer to play Lobo. Snyder, of course, was actually calling him about Aquaman – a role Momoa would go on to portray across five movies. “I thought I was going to be playing Lobo when Zack Snyder called me. Because it was Batman v Superman, and they needed to have a villain in there.”
Michael Bay Nearly Directed a Tarantino-Style Lobo Movie
In a fascinating alternate timeline, Michael Bay was once loosely attached to direct a standalone Lobo movie for the DCEU. The project had been scripted by Wonder Woman co-writer Jason Fuchs, and while Bay – best known for Bad Boys, Armageddon, and Transformers – never officially signed on, Fuchs explained on the Happy Sad Confused podcast what his version would have looked like.
“It was a hard-R, psychotic movie. Very violent. It made Deadpool look like a Disney family film. Which is probably why it ultimately didn’t get made,” he said, as quoted via Comic Book Movie, before describing it as something like Quentin Tarantino’s Guardians of the Galaxy. Fuchs also noted that one scene would have parodied Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, with a villain begging Lobo for mercy and saying his name was Martha, only for Lobo to joke that his mother was also named Martha.
“I loved writing that script and there was a Green Lantern involved. There were all kinds of fun DC characters who popped up in the context of that… There was a real fun dynamic between Lobo and Jack T. Chance. Jack T. Chance was a huge part of that story… I used a lot of L.E.G.I.O.N., also. It was definitely a Lobo movie, but it was also in some ways a first film in what could have been a L.E.G.I.O.N. series.”
In DC Comics lore, L.E.G.I.O.N. stands for the Licensed Extra-Governmental Interstellar Operatives Network, an interstellar police force led by Brainiac 2.
Source: MovieWeb
