Michael Bay’s Scrapped Lobo Movie Would Have Made Deadpool Look PG
Jason Fuchs says the long-canceled Lobo movie once eyed for Michael Bay was a gleefully hard-R rampage that would make Deadpool look kid-friendly.
File this under: movies I kind of wish existed just to see the chaos. Jason Fuchs, who is currently shepherding It: Welcome to Derry, says he once wrote a Lobo movie for DC that was wild enough to make Deadpool look PG. It never happened, but the Czarnian is finally on deck elsewhere.
The Lobo movie that almost happened
On Josh Horowitz's Happy Sad Confused podcast, Fuchs said he wrote a Lobo script for DC years ago and still has a soft spot for it. In fact, of all the things he has written that never got made, this was his favorite.
"I'm really excited to see Lobo finally make his appearance in the Supergirl trailer."
Yes, he said 'trailer.' More on Supergirl in a second.
The tone: Bayhem meets hard-R space mayhem
Fuchs did not mince words about what he was going for. Think big, messy, and proudly inappropriate.
"The tone of that Lobo film was Guardians of the Galaxy if Quentin Tarantino had directed it."
He says it was a hard-R, psychotic, ultra-violent romp that would have made Deadpool look like a Disney family night. He even suspects that extremeness is a big reason it never got the green light.
Who was going to make it
When Horowitz asked who he pictured under the leather and chains, Fuchs did not hesitate: Jason Momoa. In his head, Momoa was always the guy, and Michael Bay was lined up to direct. Yes, that Michael Bay. On a Lobo movie. You can see why curiosity levels are spiking.
There was a brutal riff on BvS's 'Martha'
Fuchs also shared a scene that winks at Batman v Superman's infamous 'Martha' moment. In his script, a desperate bad guy tries to save his own skin by saying he has a mother to think about — named Martha. Lobo pauses, says his mother is also named Martha, and the henchman gets hopeful for about half a second before Lobo turns him into red mist.
"What the f*** was that about?"
So where are we actually seeing Lobo?
Not in Fuchs's movie, sadly. But the character is headed to the big screen in Supergirl, which is currently set for June 2026. Milly Alcock is playing Kara Zor-El, and Jason Momoa is on board as Lobo. Fuchs, for one, seems very ready to see his favorite bastard finally crash into the DCU — even if it is not in the unhinged Bay-directed version he wrote. Honestly, same.