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 stories that Momoa has been tapped to play the DC Comics antihero alongside Milly Alcock’s Supergirl in Supergirl: Lady 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 crucial bombastic characters that DC Comics has to supply:
And who might blame him? Resemblance isn’t sufficient to make good superhero casting, however Momoa and Lobo have it spades. However it’s additionally simple that Lobo can also be a match for the types of roles Momoa clearly favors: Massive personalities, sturdy physicality, and wholesome quantities of humor.
Lobo — sure, simply “Lobo” — started his editorial life in 1983 as a bit of 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 driving, hooked-chain swinging intergalactic bounty hunter; a impolite, crude, murdering dude manufactured as a send-up of the Punisher, Wolverine, Choose 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 stay lengthy sufficient to see your self turn into a personality everyone loves for precisely the components of you that had been alleged 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 capacity 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 received’t discover him, nevertheless, is the precise comedian e book Supergirl: Lady of Tomorrow — however he matches proper in with the collection’ format, a travelogue of the strangest components of DC Comics’ interstellar panorama, both as a supporting character or as a swap-in for the comedian’s foremost villain, an area outlaw {that a} area farmgirl hires Supergirl to enact vengeance upon.
Momoa, in fact, made fairly a meal out of taking part in Arthur Curry/Aquaman within the Justice League and Aquaman motion pictures — and it’s good that that hasn’t prevented this explicit confluence of good casting. Momoa’s good for Lobo, and hopefully Lobo shall be good for Supergirl.