DC’s King of Atlantis, Jason Momoa, abandons his saltwater throne in favor of a new venture this summer: a dream role in Supergirl. According to the man himself, he wanted to play Lobo — a blue-skinned bounty hunter from the planet Czarnia — even more than Arthur Curry/Aquaman. Asked during an interview on TODAY to tease his latest character, Momoa shared:
“He’s amazing, it’s my ultimate dream to play Lobo. I wanted to play him more than Aquaman, this is it.”
Ahead of the arrival of Supergirl on June 26, it’s still unclear how much screen time will be dedicated to Lobo’s cinematic debut. In the first trailer for the DCU blockbuster, which brings back Milly Alcock’s Kara Zor-El (cousin of Superman) in a major way, Momoa’s cigar-chewing alien is only glimpsed for a couple of seconds. We know that Matthias Schoenaerts’ Krem of the Yellow Hills will be the main villain throughout the movie, so it’s likely that Supergirl is serving as a cameo entry point for Lobo, with big plans for him lying in the future.
Momoa previously revealed that he once mistook a call from Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice director Zack Snyder as an offer to play Lobo. As history tells us, Snyder actually wanted him for Aquaman, who he’d 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 Almost Directed a Tarantino-esque Lobo Movie
Fascinatingly, Hollywood’s resident action maestro Michael Bay was at one time attached to direct a solo Lobo movie, which had been scripted by Wonder Woman co-writer Jason Fuchs for the DCEU. Although Bay — the wizard behind Bad Boys, Armageddon, and Transformers — never officially signed up for the project, Fuchs told the Happy Sad Confused podcast how his vision would’ve unfolded on screen.
“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 teased, via Comic Book Movie, before comparing the canceled movie to Quentin Tarantino’s Guardians of the Galaxy. Fuchs also mentioned that one scene would’ve parodied Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice by having a bad guy begging Lobo to spare his life by saying his name was Martha. So the story goes, Lobo would joke that he had a mom named Martha.
“I loved writing that script and there was a Green Lantern involved. There was 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.”
L.E.G.I.O.N is the Licensed Extra-Governmental Interstellar Operatives Network in DC Comics, a police force led by Brainiac 2.
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