Who wants YouTube movies of individuals arranging objects in pleasingly symmetrical formations when Jason Momoa has been forged as Lobo within the upcoming Supergirl film? Deadline reviews that Momoa has been tapped to play the DC Comics antihero alongside Milly Alcock’s Supergirl in Supergirl: Girl of Tomorrow.
Momoa confirmed in an Instagram put up that Warner Bros. has reached out, alluding to his long-held ambition to play Lobo, one of the vital bombastic characters that DC Comics has to supply:
And who may blame him? Resemblance will not be sufficient to make good superhero casting, however Momoa and Lobo have it spades. But it surely’s additionally simple that Lobo can also be a match for the kinds of roles Momoa clearly favors: Large personalities, sturdy physicality, and wholesome quantities of humor.
Lobo — sure, simply “Lobo” — started his editorial life in 1983 as a bit used alien villain created by Keith Giffen and Roger Slifer, however hit his stride within the Nineteen Nineties, when Giffen, artist Simon Bisley, and different creators considerably revamped him as a parody character. Within the ’90s, Lobo grew to become a huge-haired, Kiss-look-alike, cigar-chomping, space-motorcycle using, hooked-chain swinging intergalactic bounty hunter; a impolite, crude, murdering dude manufactured as a send-up of the Punisher, Wolverine, Decide Dredd, and each different ’90s comedian leaning into x-treem violence and grit.
However, to paraphrase one other DC Comics film, you both die a parody or dwell lengthy sufficient to see your self grow to be a personality all people loves for precisely the elements of you that had been presupposed to be excessive. Lobo abides, together with his trademark sci-fi minced oaths (bastich, fraggin’), his area chopper, his insistence on referring to himself as “the Essential Man,” and his skill to one way or the other smoke cigars within the vacuum of area. He’s completely self-interested and powerful sufficient to go toe-to-toe with Superman however so annoying that even low-powered heroes discover him as infuriating as he’s frighting.
One place you gained’t discover him, nevertheless, is the precise comedian e book Supergirl: Girl of Tomorrow — however he suits proper in with the sequence’ format, a travelogue of the strangest elements of DC Comics’ interstellar panorama, both as a supporting character or as a swap-in for the comedian’s important villain, an area outlaw {that a} area farmgirl hires Supergirl to enact vengeance upon.
Momoa, after all, made fairly a meal out of taking part in Arthur Curry/Aquaman within the Justice League and Aquaman films — and it’s good that that hasn’t prevented this specific confluence of good casting. Momoa’s good for Lobo, and hopefully Lobo will probably be good for Supergirl.
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