Jason Momoa will play Lobo, the Czarnian Bounty Hunter, in DC’s Supergirl: Lady of Tomorrow, starring Milly Alcock as Kara Zor-El.
Jason Momoa goes from the ocean deep to the galactic freeway when he steps into Lobo’s boots for Supergirl: Lady of Tomorrow. Momoa has needed to play Lobo for years, and his dream is lastly coming true. Lobo, created by Roger Slifer and Keith Giffen, debuted in Omega Males #3 circa 1983. Lobo is a Czarnian bounty hunter who rides a bike by the cosmos in quest of his marks. Impressed by characters like Punisher and Wolverine, Lobo grew to become DC’s poster boy for violence as followers warmed to his reckless nature and “rude dude” angle.
This try just isn’t the primary at bringing the cigar-chomping Czarnian to the silver display. Beforehand, Man Ritchie and Brad Peyton tried to deliver Lobo entrance and middle, with Dwayne Johnson eyeing the function in Peyton’s model. Michael Bay additionally tried to adapt the character, however the idea stalled earlier than taking to the celebs. Whereas Lobo followers received a model of the character (performed by Emmett J. Scanlan) within the SyFy collection Krypton, Lobo stays remanded to the small display.
Jason Momoa celebrated his likelihood to play Lobo in Supergirl: Lady of Tomorrow by posting a snippet of an outdated interview on Instagram:
Apparently, Lobo doesn’t seem within the ultimate model of Supergirl: Lady of Tomorrow by Tom King and artist Bilquis Evely. Early within the inventive course of, King pitched the story as a Lobo/Supergirl e book. Nonetheless, King’s editors, Brittany Holzherr and Jamie Wealthy stated, “No, take Lobo out and make Supergirl the Rooster Cogburn character.” Who’s that? Bear in mind True Grit? Jeff Bridges performs Rooster Cogburn, a cranky, drunk, and bitter lawman who joins a younger woman on a mission of revenge in opposition to a band of outlaws in Joel and Ethan Coen’s 2010 Western. Honestly, I by no means made the connection till now. It makes good sense.
Craig Gillespie directs Supergirl: Lady of Tomorrow from a script by Ana Nogueira and based mostly on the Tom King comedian collection of the identical identify. Gunn has teased that this model of Supergirl can be completely different. “In our series we see the difference between Superman who was sent to Earth and raised by loving parents from the time he was an infant, versus Supergirl who was raised on a rock, a chip off Krypton, and watched everyone around her die and be killed in terrible ways for the first 14 years of her life, and then came to Earth when she was a young girl,” Gunn stated. “She’s much more hardcore, she’s not exactly the Supergirl we’re use to seeing.”
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