Michael Bay's Scrapped Lobo Movie Described as a Hard-R Guardians of the Galaxy Mixed With Quentin Tarantino Violence

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Jason Momoa is set to play the iconic DC character Lobo in the upcoming Supergirl movie. However, director Michael Bay, the filmmaker behind the Transformers and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies, had planned to make his own Lobo movie, which could have turned out quite differently from James Gunn and Peter Safran’s DCU film.

According to ComicBookMovie, Lobo, the anti-hero character from the planet Czarnia, was set to be the subject of a Michael Bay film that never came to fruition. Back in 2016, it was reported that a standalone Lobo movie was in development, with Bay directing and Jason Fuchs (Wonder Woman) writing the script.

In an appearance on Josh Horowitz’s Happy Sad Confused podcast, Fuchs opened up about the Lobo movie that never was. “I'm really excited to see Lobo finally make his appearance in the Supergirl trailer,” began Fuchs.

He continued, “I’d written a Lobo script many years ago for DC. Which, of all the things I've written that didn't get made, I think that Lobo script is my favorite. 'Cause it was... the tone of that [film] was Guardians of the Galaxy if Quentin Tarantino had directed it.”

Fuchs added that the failed Lobo movie would have been a hard-R film, definitely meant for more mature audiences. “It was a hard-R, psychotic movie. Very violent. It made Deadpool look like a Disney family film. Which is probably why it ultimately didn't get made.”

One thing likely would have been the same if Bay and Fuchs’ Lobo movie had gotten off the ground, and that was casting Momoa in the titular role. When asked if he had an actor in mind for the Lobo role, Fuchs said, “Momoa! Who can play that role but Momoa? It was always... we never got to the stage we were talking to him, but it was always in my brain, Momoa.”

Iconic DC Teams Would Have Been Featured in the Lobo Movie

Lobo smokes a cigar while standing in space, covered in blood

Fuchs also revealed that a member of the Green Lantern Corps was set to appear in the movie, as well as other characters from the comics. “[Michael] Bay was going to direct it, which would've been equally insane. And it was a weird time in the DC Universe, where it didn't quite fit into what they were doing. But yeah, I loved writing that script, and there was a Green Lantern involved. There was all kinds of fun DC characters who popped up in the context of that,” Fuchs said.

He continued that the Green Lantern that likely would have appeared in Bay’s Lobo movie would have been Jack T. Chance, who first appeared in the comics in 1992. “There was a real fun dynamic between Lobo and Jack T. Chance. Jack T. Chance was a huge part of that story,” Fuchs said.

He added that the DC team, L.E.G.I.O.N., would also have been featured in a significant role in the Lobo movie. “I used a lot of L.E.G.I.O.N., also. It was definitely a Lobo movie, but it was also in some ways a first film in what could have been a L.E.G.I.O.N. series,” Fuchs said, referring to the DC Comics “Space Police” that debuted in 1988 and was created by Todd McFarlane, Keith Giffen, and Bill Mantlo. Lobo had been a part of the L.E.G.I.O.N. team.

Fuchs teased some of the plot of his Lobo movie, saying, “[It was a] pretty nutty movie. I remember there was a moment early in the script, where there’s a bad guy who pleads for Lobo’s forgiveness by saying that he's got a mother to think about. And he says, 'Please, what will become of my mother? [...] What will become of Martha?' And Lobo goes, ‘What did you say?’ He goes, ‘Martha, cause it's my mom's name!’ [Lobo] goes, ‘No way! ‘Your mom's Martha, my mom's Martha?’ He goes, ‘Yeah!’ And the bad guy’s, like, really hopeful, and then Lobo blows his brains out, and goes, ‘what the f—ck was that about?’”

Fuchs hasn’t given up all hope of a standalone Lobo movie in the future, saying, “I'm sure at some point they will... I don't think they'll make my Lobo, but I'm sure at some point, you'll see a Lobo film come together, 'cause it's just one of the great characters.”

Fans can catch Momoa as Lobo in Supergirl, which will be released in theaters on June 26, 2026.