According to a recent report by Mania, their “source on the inside” is saying that meetings regarding casting keep pointing to actor Clancy Brown being cast as LOBO in the Guy Ritchie-directed film adaptation of the DC comic.
Who is Clancy Brown? Does he have any geek/comic/sci-fi cred? You betcha! Clancy’s voicework alone gives him serious cred, he’s voiced Mr. Krabs in Spongebob Squarepants, Lex Luthor in just about every animated adaptation of Superman in the last few decades (including the recent Superman/Batman: Public Enemies,) and Mr. Sinister in Wolverine and the X-Men to name a few.
So, has he done any non-voice acting? Lets see, he was the main villain in the original Highlander film (The Kurgan) on Lost he played Kelvin Inman, the man who shared the Swan hatch with Desmond before trying to steal his boat and leave the island, he played the evil zombified dog-killing Sheriff in Pet Sematary 2 opposite Edward Furlong and Sergeant Zim in Starship Troopers. Is that good enough?
Some were speculating that Ritchie would go with someone like Jeffery Dean Morgan or Gerard Butler but according to Mania’s talk with their source:
“Lobo has to look like that, but the person being Lobo doesn’t necessarily, I’m not saying that’s how they’re gonna do it because they’re still trying to work that out, but for example Andy Serkis doesn’t particularly look like Gollum, you know? It’s all about performance.”
This comment would spawn the speculation that Lobo might go the direction of the Hellboy movies, which put an actor the caliber of Ron Pearlman into a giant, muscled-up red latex suit, to pull off the look of his character. With the reference to Andy Serkis’ groundbreaking performance as Gollum in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, which was done completely in CGI, aided with Serkis’ own motion capture performance, you might think at first, that something as dark, gritty, and as Lobo might not mesh well with such a concept. However, it should also be kept in mind that Lobo is tentatively planned to be a PG-13 film.
Mania’s source continues:
“Ultimately regardless of whether you do it all CG or its a guy in a suit, with CG, you’ll still end up doing a lot of CG animation. So do you need a celebrity? Do you need a name or do you just get someone who is good and who’s gonna nail it?”
I want to remind everyone that this is a rumor, nothing has been confirmed regarding the casting of the film and I’m still pulling for Jeffrey Dean Morgan… but then again, I also wish this were going to be an R rated movie in lieu of going the PG-13 route
