Guy Ritchie to direct Lobo????? WTF"

Kess73

Just saw this now.


This is so wrong.

Bastich.




http://entertainment.uk.msn.com/movies/news/Article.aspx?cp-documentid=149509164&GT1=61502


Guy Ritchie directs comic book film
Guy Ritchie is to direct Lobo, the movie adaptation of the comic book about an alien bounty hunter.
Guy Ritchie directs comic book film

pa.press.net
Guy Ritchie is to direct Lobo, the movie adaptation of the comic book about an alien bounty hunter.

Guy is expected to bring the "irreverent, gruff tone" of his past films such as Snatch and Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels to the Warner Bros project, Variety reports.

The character of Lobo originated as a rarely-used noir villain in 1983 in Omega Men written by Roger Slifer and Keith Giffen but was revived as a motorbike riding anti-hero in the 90s and became a hit.

In the film, written by Don Payne, he will be an indestructible, blue-skinned, seven-foot-tall and heavily-muscled anti-hero. He'll drive a pimped-out motorcycle and land on Earth, where he'll team up with a teenage girl to hunt down four fugitives bent on wreaking havoc.

Production on Lobo is due to begin early next year and will be Guy's first movie after Sherlock Holmes.

Galvasean

Lobo and Guy Ritchie? Now that is an odd pairing. Could work though.

Kess73

And what's with Lobo being blue skinned?


Grrrrr

Kess73

Galvasean

I seem to recall him having blue skin in the cartoons...
Maybe they chose to give him blue skin in the movie to mark him out as an alien?

Kess73

White skin in the cartoon also.

Galvasean

Hmmmm, no idea so.
After rumaging through Wikipedia, apparently there was some sort of Lobo film made in 2002:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobo_(DC_Comics)#Film

Reading through some of the out cry so far the one thing which most people seem to have missed is that they are aiming for PG13 rating which to me is far more worrying than the colour of Lobo's skin.

Kess73

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9ooZYjF0mI

Kess73

Deleted User wrote: »

Reading through some of the out cry so far the one thing which most people seem to have missed is that they are aiming for PG13 rating which to me is far more worrying than the colour of Lobo's skin.

Well I was not expecting a 15 or 18 cert for it, not with Mr Madonna making it.

His ex missus takes his gonads so he goes to take Lobo's gonads.


The very fact he was changing the skin colour just shows that he has no problem straying from the source material, and making his version of an even crappier Masters Of The Universe clone.

I bet that he tries to work a Cockney geezer into the film somewhere too.

Kess73

Kess73 wrote: »

Well I was not expecting a 15 or 18 cert for it, not with Mr Madonna making it.

His ex missus takes his gonads so he goes to take Lobo's gonads.

That's complete crap to be honest, the films he made while with Madonna were all at the very least rated 15s. Ritchie isn't the sort of film maker to turn in a kiddie friendly adaptation of a comic given that his upcoming adaptation of his own comic the Gameskeeper is going to be an 18s cert. He has said that it will be faithful to the comic and he won't tone it done.

Also I'm fairly certain that he's no longer with Madonna and even if he was I have my doubts that she would in any way interfere in the film.

Kess73 wrote: »

The very fact he was changing the skin colour just shows that he has no problem straying from the source material, and making his version of an even crappier Masters Of The Universe clone.

I bet that he tries to work a Cockney geezer into the film somewhere too.

Whose to say that it's Ritchie insisting on the colour change. If I was a betting man I would put my money on the studio wanting the colour change in order to make Lobo a more distinctive character.

So what if he puts a cockney geezer in the film, Ritchie has proved himself a capable director and while he has his misfire Swept Away the body of his work is very impressive. If he can get Mickey Rourke or perhaps Jason Statham then I think that Lobo could turn out pretty damn good.

humanji

Maybe they're not changing the colour at all? It looks like whoever wrote the article didn't know who Lobo was and looked it up on the net. They probably just thought Lobo was blue skinned (not even bright blue, just blue tinted) after glancing at one of the photos.

I think this could work as PG13. I always saw the Lobo violence as being over the top and cartoony, so they just have to take out the blood, imply some of the more violent bits instead of showing them and there you have it.

Kess73

Deleted User wrote: »

That's complete crap to be honest, the films he made while with Madonna were all at the very least rated 15s. Ritchie isn't the sort of film maker to turn in a kiddie friendly adaptation of a comic given that his upcoming adaptation of his own comic the Gameskeeper is going to be an 18s cert. He has said that it will be faithful to the comic and he won't tone it done.

Also I'm fairly certain that he's no longer with Madonna and even if he was I have my doubts that she would in any way interfere in the film.



Whose to say that it's Ritchie insisting on the colour change. If I was a betting man I would put my money on the studio wanting the colour change in order to make Lobo a more distinctive character.

So what if he puts a cockney geezer in the film, Ritchie has proved himself a capable director and while he has his misfire Swept Away the body of his work is very impressive. If he can get Mickey Rourke or perhaps Jason Statham then I think that Lobo could turn out pretty damn good.

Yes he is no longer with Madonna but I call him Mr Madonna anyway.


He has a very impressive body of work? Very impressive? Funny that. I see two films of his that are what could be called very good and that's it. I see plenty of average films and retreading of his own work.

When people think of Guy Ritchie there is only two films that generally come to mind, Snatch and Lock Stock..., and most defo not a list of very impressive films throughout his career.

For me he is a rubbish choice to bring Lobo to the big screen as I see him as little more than an over hyped director, one that gets huge plaudits (undeserved) on this side of the Atlantic due to the British media being desperate for a British Tarantino when Ritchie first hit the headlines. I see him as the perfect poster boy for Empire magazine lists on top directors.


And Mickey Rourke as Lobo? No thanks, but he would be better than Jason Statham in the role.

Kess73

Kess73 wrote: »

Yes he is no longer with Madonna but I call him Mr Madonna anyway.


He has a very impressive body of work? Very impressive? Funny that. I see two films of his that are what could be called very good and that's it. I see plenty of average films and retreading of his own work.

When people think of Guy Ritchie there is only two films that generally come to mind, Snatch and Lock Stock..., and most defo not a list of very impressive films throughout his career.

For me he is a rubbish choice to bring Lobo to the big screen as I see him as little more than an over hyped director, one that gets huge plaudits (undeserved) on this side of the Atlantic due to the British media being desperate for a British Tarantino when Ritchie first hit the headlines. I see him as the perfect poster boy for Empire magazine lists on top directors.


And Mickey Rourke as Lobo? No thanks, but he would be better than Jason Statham in the role.

Only 2 good films, I'm sorry but RockNRolla was one of last years best films and Revolver is an excellent film, that is once you figure out what's going on. SO far Ritchie has only one bad film on his CV.

Saying he's a British Tarintino is a stretch. Ritchie is a far more versatile director than Tarantino given that he doesn't pepper his films with scenes from lesser known cult cinema.

As for him directing Lobo, well I'm going to reserve judgment till I see the finished film and in my mind Rourke would be a damn fine Lobo.

tman

humanji wrote: »

Maybe they're not changing the colour at all? It looks like whoever wrote the article didn't know who Lobo was and looked it up on the net. They probably just thought Lobo was blue skinned (not even bright blue, just blue tinted) after glancing at one of the photos.

Read pretty much the same thing in a London paper this morning, so unless they've used the same source (quite likely tbh), it doesn't look promising...

Handsome Bob

Galvasean wrote: »

Hmmmm, no idea so.
After rumaging through Wikipedia, apparently there was some sort of Lobo film made in 2002:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobo_(DC_Comics)#Film

Oh god, it's Chip from Batman Returns! :eek: