DEADPOOL 2 Director Wants To Helm Jason Momoa LOBO Movie; New SUPERGIRL: WOMAN OF TOMORROW Details Land

DEADPOOL 2 Director Wants To Helm Jason Momoa LOBO Movie; New SUPERGIRL: WOMAN OF TOMORROW Details Land

Deadpool 2 director David Leitch expresses an interest in helming a Lobo movie starring Jason Momoa. We also have news on when Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow begins production and the size of Lobo's role...

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By JoshWilding - Dec 31, 2024 05:12 AM EST

The news broke yesterday that Aquaman star Jason Momoa will play the DCU's Lobo.

The actor first played Arthur Curry in 2016's Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and later reprised the role in Justice League (2017), Aquaman (2018), Peacemaker (2022), The Flash (2023) and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023). 

The latter was poorly received and grossed a disappointing $439 million worldwide compared to the $1 billion earned by its predecessor. The sequel marking his final appearance as Aquaman was no secret but whether he'd get a second chance in the DCU as Lobo was left up in the air. 

Sharing an excerpt from a ComicBookMovie.com article, Momoa announced his casting as The Main Man on Instagram. James Gunn later welcomed him to the DCU and the trades confirmed that he'll first play Lobo in Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow. 

Multiple attempts have been made to bring Lobo to the big screen over the years. Guy Ritchie and Brad Peyton both took stabs, with Dwayne Johnson circling the roll for the latter's take. In 2018, Michael Bay looked set to take charge of the movie but that also never came to fruition.

Now, John Wick, Deadpool 2, and The Fall Guy director David Leitch has thrown his name into the ring and pitched a Lobo movie to Momoa that he'd be eager to take the helm of...

That would be quite the team-up given Leitch's action credentials.

Back to Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow and Deadline has confirmed the movie begins production on January 13. That would explain why news of Momoa's casting broke yesterday. 

How big of a role will the Aquaman star play in the second DCU movie? We're hearing it's more than a cameo and, in a 2023 interview, writer Tom King revealed that his original pitch for the Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow comic book featured Lobo as co-lead. 

"That book began as me pitching a Lobo/Supergirl book, and it was my editor[s], Brittany Holzherr and Jamie Rich, who were like 'No, take Lobo out and make Supergirl the Rooster Cogburn character'" King explained. "And so it wouldn’t exist without Jamie and Brittany."

Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow is currently scheduled to be DC Studios' second DCU title and will be helmed by Cruella director Craig Gillespie. Ana Nogueira (The Vampire Diaries) penned the screenplay after originally being hired to write the Supergirl movie starring Sasha Calle.

In the DC Studios movie, Supergirl travels across the galaxy to celebrate her 21st birthday with Krypto the Superdog. Along the way, she meets a young woman named Ruthye and winds up on a murderous quest for revenge.

Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow arrives in theaters on June 26, 2026.

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bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 12/31/2024, 6:03 AM
First Gunn shares a cbm.com excerpt, and now Momoa? I start to feel being watched.

Anyway, I guess if Leitch wants to helm a Lobo movie, all he needs to do is get a script ready and pitch it to Gunn. That seems to be the quickest way to get stuff greenlit.
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 12/31/2024, 6:26 AM
@bkmeijer1 - yeah and if Gunn likes it enough then he’ll greenlight it otherwise he’ll continue to work on it

Leitch is a good choice though if it happens

Also if Gunn is watching then he knows who he needs to cast for DCU Batman 😁
Clintthahamster
Clintthahamster - 12/31/2024, 6:27 AM
@bkmeijer1 - seriously, can you imagine how insufferable some users will be if they think cbm actors and writers read this website? I mean, I guess a lot of them already believed that, and are already insufferable...
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 12/31/2024, 6:32 AM
@Clintthahamster - oh damn true

Maybe if the people that write for or are behind this website realize that then maybe they would clean this place up if you know what I mean
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 12/31/2024, 6:51 AM
@Clintthahamster @TheVisionary25 - I doubt that if they read cbm.com, they'll never go to the comments. That said, cleaning this place up might make it more sufferable in the long run
Clintthahamster
Clintthahamster - 12/31/2024, 6:51 AM
@TheVisionary25 - "You kids act civilized, we have company."
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 12/31/2024, 7:08 AM
@Clintthahamster - pretty much lol
McMurdo
McMurdo - 12/31/2024, 12:27 PM
@bkmeijer1 - writing a great script is always the best to get a film green lit. Correct.
McMurdo
McMurdo - 12/31/2024, 12:28 PM
@bkmeijer1 - "cleaning this place up". Yeah we go through a "cleaning" oncw a year. It's a fart in the wind. Let people have fun.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 12/31/2024, 12:31 PM
@McMurdo - yeah it never changes much. Then again, it's not so bad anyway
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 12/31/2024, 3:04 PM
@Clintthahamster - So what, if you suddenly started making cbms you'd just leave this website and all of your other favorite websites? Nah. I know I wouldn't. You don't stop being yourself when you start making stuff and if what you are is a geek you don't just stop being a geek.

This is a community. Some of us are black, some of us are white, some men, some women, some woke, some bigots, some make movies some don't. There are even those who run DC Studios and those who run Marvel Studios.

We are all in the same world and when it comes to people like you, me and James Gunn, we are all in the same community. He makes the movies, we sit and watch the movies. That's community all in itself.

But also, I actually do agree that if some users here were to realize that they might get a little insufferable. But I mean, what about Twitter (or www.Xratedtweets.com or whatever Elon Musk wants to call it)? We know for a fact that all these other human beings are on twitter and there are hundreds of them that like to nag the more famous people on there. James Gunn must have a zillion replies to every single tweet. I'm sure that can be a little insufferable and he obviously can't respond to them all, but unlike a lot of the more dispassionate people who have a zillion people @ing them, he does respond to some and I think that displays a good amount of common decency.

It's possible (not probable) but possible that Grif is actually Kevin Feige, that Gusto is secretly both Joe AND Antony Russo, that James Gunn has a Hunter Schaffer avatar and can't stop talking about Pablo Lyle and Jonathan Majors. You never really know.
Clintthahamster
Clintthahamster - 12/31/2024, 4:08 PM
@ObserverIO - "So what, if you suddenly started making cbms you'd just leave this website and all of your other favorite websites?"

Man, I hope so! I only look at this website while I'm at work. If my job was to write/direct/produce/star in MCU or DCU movies, you would CERTAINLY see a lot less of me. Or, at the very least, I'd start going to the secret CBM news website that only famous people can look at, like the Raya version of CBM.com, the one where they post the REAL scoops.

"www.Xratedtweets.com or whatever Elon Musk wants to call it"

I call it Xitter, pronounced with the Chinese "sh" pronunciation of X.
NonPlayerC
NonPlayerC - 12/31/2024, 7:26 PM
@bkmeijer1 - I thought the comments section was the only reason we came here. Most of the articles are just random rumors 1 guy says on twitter in South America right? Yeah we got some trolls but they are our trolls :)
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 12/31/2024, 8:02 PM
@Clintthahamster - "The Raya version of CBM.com, the one where they post the REAL scoops."

I believe they call it SFFGazette.com.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 1/1/2025, 8:37 AM
@NonPlayerC - pretty much. I often scroll right past the rumour articles and go straight to the comments. Most annoying users I've blocked anyway
HashTagSwagg
HashTagSwagg - 12/31/2024, 6:22 AM
Hope not, DP2 was awful, Lobo deserves A Nolan or sYNDER cUT
marvel72
marvel72 - 12/31/2024, 6:47 AM
@HashTagSwagg - Snyder visual style for Lobo would be great but don't let him write it.
Ikusa
Ikusa - 12/31/2024, 9:22 AM
@HashTagSwagg - Was it Russell?
HashTagSwagg
HashTagSwagg - 12/31/2024, 9:46 AM
@Ikusa - Russell was without a doubt my biggest gripe but also the humour felt off, playing dubstep over the fights multiple times when it should have just been a one off, Mohinder was fine in the first felt but went full on Jar Jar in part 2 (glad he barely had anything to do in DP3), Negasonic's character was just "I'm gay now encase you didn't know". Liked Brolin as Cable they undercooked him, they barely adapt anything from the books regarding his origin that he feels like a made up character just fore this film. Killing off the love interest only to bring her back at the end just made the film feel like a waste of time.
McMurdo
McMurdo - 12/31/2024, 12:28 PM
@HashTagSwagg - Deadpool 2 was better than Deadpool vs Wolverine
HashTagSwagg
HashTagSwagg - 12/31/2024, 1:19 PM
@McMurdo -
McMurdo
McMurdo - 12/31/2024, 1:36 PM
@HashTagSwagg - Deadpool and Wolverine was basically Feige pornography
HashTagSwagg
HashTagSwagg - 12/31/2024, 1:39 PM
@McMurdo - I ain't gonna argue against that but DP2 was a film I saw once and never want to see again and I'm willing to re-watch some pretty mediocre shit.
McMurdo
McMurdo - 12/31/2024, 2:15 PM
@HashTagSwagg - lol fair enough.
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 12/31/2024, 7:24 AM
A Guy Ritchie or even Michael Bay Lobo would have been interesting but oh well.

I knew that Tom King had originally pitched the comic story as a Lobo & Supergirl team up and the story was inspired by True Grit but didn’t know Lobo apparently would be the Rooster Cogburn character which makes sense…

However the editor made the right call by having him remove him and have Supergirl be that type of character since she is somewhat unlike Cogburn in the story which makes it interesting (Ruthye was Mattie while Krem is Chaney from the novel which means no Labeouf)

Anyway , I still think perhaps he knows Krem in this version and tags along to get his own payback on him or just points Kara and Ruthye in the right direction depending on if it’s a big or small role…

Granted he could take the place of the pirates Krem is with or the bounty hunter Kara fights.

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Mixedsuperman
Mixedsuperman - 12/31/2024, 7:48 AM
Give me Joe Carnahan…..
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 12/31/2024, 7:59 AM
@Mixedsuperman - that’s a good pick too

Only seen 2 of his films though (one of which being his A Team reboot which was fun imo) but he has the right attitude and vibe for it.
MosquitoFarmer
MosquitoFarmer - 12/31/2024, 8:16 AM
@TheVisionary25 - The Grey is pretty amazing, and a relentlessly brutal dramatic thriller. (Hrsh darn tear-jerker I would add too.)

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P.S. The A-Team was indeed a lot of fun. And in the same summer as The Expendables and The Losers, I'd say it is the best overall of those three team-based fun action movies.
The Grey was originally supposed to star Bradley Cooper (Carnahan's next film after working with him in The A-Team). But when he became unavailable Liam Neeson was cast, and the film became something even better as a result, especially due to particular unfortunate circumstances.
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 12/31/2024, 8:22 AM
@MosquitoFarmer - very interesting…

I heard of the film but haven’t watched it so may give it a shot.
Arthorious
Arthorious - 12/31/2024, 8:29 AM
@MosquitoFarmer - A-Team is a fun movie, good however is subjective
McMurdo
McMurdo - 12/31/2024, 12:29 PM
@MosquitoFarmer - I rewatched it recently. I remember it being great.....it's pretty hokey. The script just has a lot of dumb in it. Still fun tho.
MosquitoFarmer
MosquitoFarmer - 12/31/2024, 8:03 AM
David Leitch has been building himself an awesomely fun filmography.
Atomic Blonde
Deadpool 2
Hobbs & Shaw
Bullet Train
The Fall Guy
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 12/31/2024, 8:21 AM
@MosquitoFarmer - yep

I haven’t seen the Fall Guy but the rest are all enjoyable imo.
slickrickdesigns
slickrickdesigns - 12/31/2024, 8:10 AM
He’s got a good enough track record that I think he could make a good Lobo film.
Arthorious
Arthorious - 12/31/2024, 8:29 AM
Give this man the green light
Superspecialawesomeguy
Superspecialawesomeguy - 12/31/2024, 8:50 AM
Lowkey wanted to see the Michael Bay movie, more interesting than Leitch directing it imo
Shivermetimbers
Shivermetimbers - 12/31/2024, 10:24 AM
@Superspecialawesomeguy - no. There no lense flare in space.
bobevanz
bobevanz - 12/31/2024, 11:03 AM
@Superspecialawesomeguy - dude bro movies wahhhh
Forthas
Forthas - 12/31/2024, 10:46 AM
"...the movie begins production on January 13. That would explain why news of Momoa's casting broke yesterday."

No! It is because they needed to distract from the bad screening that Superman had and the controversy over the Reeves Batman.
bobevanz
bobevanz - 12/31/2024, 11:04 AM
@Forthas - THERE IS NO BAD SCREENING. There was one screening and it was for [frick]ing friends and family. Stay mad Snyder dweeb
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