(Source: David Finch/DC Comics)
David Leitch is ready to direct a Lobo movie with Jason Momoa whenever DC Studios wants to greenlight one.
The filmmaker, whose credits include John Wick (2014), Atomic Blonde (2017), Deadpool 2 (2018), Hobbs & Shaw (2019), Bullet Train (2022), and The Fall Guy (2024), recently commented that he would be interested in helming a Lobo movie for the DC Universe. “[L]ets do a Lobo feature,” the director commented under Momoa’s Instagram post announcing that DC had called him about playing the fan-favorite alien bounty hunter in the DCU.
Check out a screenshot of Leitch’s comment (via X) below:
David Leitch (Deadpool 2, John Wick, Atomic Blonde) wants to do LOBO movie with JASON MOMOA! ? pic.twitter.com/AbSEv3aaRl— Everything_DCU (@EverythingDCU_) December 30, 2024
Warner Bros. previously tried to get a Lobo movie made
Despite not being the most well-known DC character among casual movie-going audiences, Warner Bros. has tried in the past to get a Lobo movie off the ground. In 2009, Guy Ritchie became attached to a live-action Lobo movie that would have seen the title anti-hero travel to Earth and join forces with a teenage girl to find four fugitives. Production was slated to begin in early 2010 but was indefinitely delayed after Ritchie left the project to focus on 2011’s Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.
Brad Peyton was hired in 2012 to write and direct Lobo, with Dwayne Johnson — who had worked with Peyton on Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (and later San Andreas and Rampage) — in talks to portray the title character. However, a year later, Johnson left Lobo to play Black Adam in Shazam!, although he ultimately didn’t debut as the antihero until Black Adam’s 2022 solo film.
Following the Peyton/Johnson era, WB and DC tried to get a Lobo movie made for the DC Extended Universe, with Jason Fuchs hired to write a script in 2016 and Michael Bay attached to direct in 2018. However, the project never made it out of development hell and was officially canceled alongside the rest of the DCEU following the appointment of James Gunn and Peter Safran as co-CEOs of DC Studios in 2022.
Momoa is set to make his DCU debut as Lobo in Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, which is scheduled to begin production in mid-January. Craig Gillespie has been tapped to direct the feature, which is based on Tom King’s 2022 comic book series of the same name. Ana Nogueira adapted the comic for the big screen.
Joining Momoa is Milly Alcock as the titular Kara Zor-El/Supergirl, with Matthias Schoenaerts as the villainous Krem of the Yellow Hill and Eve Ridley as Ruthye Mary Knolle. Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow is scheduled to hit theaters on June 26, 2026, as the second film of the DCU.
