It’s been a few years now since Warner Brothers first started trying to set up a movie based on Lobo, the cult favourite DC Comics character created by Roger Slifer and Keith Giffen. Guy Ritchie was attached to direct back in 2009 but eventually bowed out in order to focus on his Sherlock Holmes reboot. Since then the project has been floating in limbo, and I think most of us just assumed it was dead. I mean, Lobo really hasn’t been big since the ’90s and I don’t think very many people were clamoring for a big screen adaptation in the first place. This week, however, it would appear that Lobo is back on track with a brand new director: Brad Peyton, the guy who just did Journey 2: The Mysterious Island. Are you fraggin’ kidding me?

The news comes courtesy of Deadline, who don’t have much else to offer in the way of details aside from the fact that Peyton will apparently be rewriting the script himself as well. With a resume that also includes Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore, Peyton is probably the last guy I would ever expect to land this project. Still, I guess when you direct a movie that makes $320 million worldwide you get a lot of stuff handed to you.

For the uninitiated, Lobo is an alien bounty hunter with superhuman strength and a fondness for violence and profanity. When he was given his own comic book in the ’90s, it quickly became a wild parody of anti-heroes such as Wolverine and The Punisher. I still have no idea what a Lobo movie might be like, but it would probably have to be very meta and very over-the-top. Oh, and an R-rating is a must. What do you think, are you interested in a Lobo movie? Is there any chance that Brad Peyton *isn’t* the worst guy on the planet to direct this thing?