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HulkSmash666
03-06-2008, 05:04 AM
I've always had ideas for a Lobo movie that I think would work well on screen.

Basically, it would be a "deal with the devil" type of story.

The feel and look of the movie would be a blend of Star Wars (think of the bounty hunter/smugglers bar, or Jabba the Hutt's lair) only more darker, sleazier and dangerous.

Vril Dox and the rest of LEGION (set up as the galaxies primary police force) are forced to seek outside help in looking for an alien child that holds the cure for a "plague" that will "infect" every life from in the galaxy.

The child has been abducted by an army of religious zealots led by the monstrous Despero (a tyrannical leader who wants the power of the "plague" for himself. Have him exactly as he is in the comics, albeit a little less pink).

Every bounty hunter/mercenary that has been approached doesn't want the job. Dox gets word of a bounty hunter that specializes in work that noone else wants (or can handle)........Lobo.

Everyone he's spoken too tells him the same thing- Lobo is the meanest, nastiest and deadliest bounty hunter in the universe and that he's more trouble than he's worth.

The all important introduction scene-

Dingy, run down intergalactic "biker" bar. All sorts of scary looking aliens reside in it's darkly lit corners, with all sorts of alien entertainment goes on around Dox as he enters the bar.

Dox see's Lobo sittting at the bar. Everyone else is sitting as far away from him as they can, all eyes on Dox as hesitantly heads over to Lobo. Only one alien drunk is sitting next to Lobo, passed out and drooling on the bar.

Dox asks Lobo for a moment of his time. Lobo raises his head from his glass, but is otherwise non-responsive. Dox continues....

"Lobo, my name is Vril Dox, and I have a job for you. LEGION has need of your bounty hunting servi....."

*SQUISH!!* goes the drunks head as Lobo slams his fist down on the alien sitting next to him.

"I'm sorry. Did I just break your concentration?"

(This scene is in a comic featuring The Ray, and I thought it's the perfect way to introduce Lobo and showcase his absolute unflinching ability to kill on a whim, and the utter disregard for life he has, not to mention shake Vril Dox up a bit, letting him know what he's about to get into.)

After a tense confrontation in the bar, Lobo accepts the mission. (Dox telling Lobo noone else wants it is the selling point, as Lobo has an ego and rep to uphold).

As they are prepared to leave, a group of hard-ass alien bikers/mercenaries walk in and recognise Lobo as the one who killed their leader in a barfight the week before. Lobo says he killed dozens of losers last week, and for them to be a bit more specific.


They draw their weapons.

"You may wanna get under a table, Frilly Dicks." Lobo says smugly.

Choas ensues. Lobo kills everyone in the bar.

Dox comes out from under the table to witness the carnage, trying to fully comprehend what the hell he's getting himself, LEGION and the galaxy into.

Now we get the introduction to the rest of LEGION.

They are horrified at Lobo's personality and vulgarity, and disgusted they have work with someone like him.

He's certainly living up his reputation.

Next they go to Lobo's base, which is literally a shack/garage sitting on an asteroid.

We see his massive arsenal of weapons, his awesome looking Space Hog, his mechanic/weapons-smith/sidekick/partner-in-crime Jonas Glim, and we also get an encounter with Lobo's herd of space dolphins.

The dolphins give off a harmonic/entrancing song that seems to have a almost blissful, calming effect on Lobo. It's almost like a drug to Lobo, who would never admit it, but he actually loves these dolphins as his pets/companions.

The next phase of the movie is explaining the story of the alien child and the prophecy stating the child's importance and what the "plague" actually is.

This is also where Lobo reveals his expertise with "plagues", having engineered one himself whe he was a teen which killed his whole planet. It was a school project that he gave himself an "A" for.

Mortified, LEGION decide Lobo's too much of a threat, and sneakily teleport him and his bike to a planet Despero and his crew have just left. LEGION think they have rid themselves of Lobo and decide to try and bring in Despero aand the child themselves.

Lobo, having the feeling he's been betrayed, promises to rectify LEGION's betrayal later, but first things first, he's given his word to bring in Despero and the child, and Lobo always keeps his word.

Lobo is then seen performing a series of brutal torture/interogation scenes on alien mercenaries, some humorous, some plain nasty. They all tell him the same thing....Despero has fled the planet.

Tracking his scent, Lobo takes off into space at full speed on his Hog, tearing through the cosmos at light speed. (Think Wolverine on Cyclops' bike in the X-Men movie, only at lightspeed.)

He reaches a massive starship, which is Despero's headquarters. He fights his way onboard, slaying many soldiers and mercenaries as he breaches the command deck.

Despero asks Lobo who he is and what does he want, to which Lobo shoots him in the chest. Despero is completely unharmed, and with a flicker of his 3rd eye, holds Lobo suspended in the air via telekinesis.

With Lobo susspended in the air, Despero begins to fill Lobo in on the real threat of the plague. It is a soul stealing entity that is using the child's body as a host. The child is in a catatonic state, it's mind paralyzed by the entity's immense force and power.
If the child were to die, the "Soul Plague" would spread throughout the universe and consume every living soul, creating a universe full of soul-less zombies, while empowering the host body with absolute control of every "infected" soul in the universe.

Lobo seems unfazed, bored even. He's here for one reason, and that's to bring in Despero and the child. He doesn't care what's it over.

As Despero monologues, he stands before a buffet of alien foods and picks at various delicacies.

Lobo see's a familar item on the menu. A half-eaten, freshly cooked Space Dolphin.

Lobo instantly goes insane with bloodlust. He busts out of Despero's TK and attacks. His hook and chain in hand, he goes ballistic, punching , slashing, kicking and even biting Despero in an attempt to hurt him.

After taking everything Lobo has, Despero opens his 3rd eye once more and blasts Lobo clear out the side of the ship's hull, leaving him to float in space unconscious.

(Despero's 3rd eye gives him telepathy, TK, and cosmic energy blasts, while physically he's massive, 10ft tall, and has superstrength and nigh-invulnerability)

Lobo is blasted out of the ship and left in the void of space, unconsious for the time being. He comes to and realizes he's starnded in a void, with no planets in sight. He whistles for his bike, and it comes to "life" and bursts out of Despero's ship and comes back for Lobo.

Despero's ship enters warp-space and vanishes.

HulkSmash666
03-06-2008, 05:05 AM
Meanwhile, LEGION have tracked Despero to his home planet, where they discover that Despero seeks to merge the "plague" with the Flame of Pytar, a massive mystical pit of flames that acts as the energy source for the planet Pytar, and gives Despero his power and control over his people.

Despero believes this "plague", once merged with the Flame, with allow Despero to control the souls the plague steals, making him ruler of the universe.

LEGION launch a massive assault on Pytar, with every ship they can muster against Despero's forces. Despero enters the battle himself and proceeds to lay watse to many ships and soldiers of LEGION.

Depsero reaches the LEGION flagship, and effortlessly decimates its superhuman champions. Only Dox remains on deck, face to face with Despero.

They exchange words, and Despero opens his 3rd eye to blast Dox, only just as he goes to fire, a massive explosion rips through the ship. Despero looks to the monitors and see's Lobo going hell for leather with some BIIIIIIG guns, tearing Despero's army to pieces.

"What have you brought to my planet?" bellows Despero to Dox.

"Death. I have brought you death." Dox coldly replies before he jumps into a maintenance hatch after dropping some explosives near Despero's feet.

An explosion goes off in the LEGION command ship, sending it crashing into the city below.

Scenes of Lobo tearing through swarms of Despero's soldiers and mercenaries, until he manages to coe across the elite guards guarding the child.
They put up a pretty decent fight, but Lobo wastes them.

He approaches the catatonic child, hook in hand.

"So your the one all this mess is about. Ya don't look like much, kid. Well, a job's a job. Your comin with me."

As he grabs the child, a massive explosion bursts through the wall.....

Despero, seething with fury and energy crackling from his 3rd eye, stands before Lobo.

"I'm glad ya here. Saves me the trouble of hunting ya fraggin ass down! Let's do this !!!"

The two go at it for all their worth, Despero unleashing his titanic strength and energy blasts, Lobo whirling his hook and chain, slashing away with his knife and blasting away with his guns.

Despero starts to really work Lobo over, and slams his face into the ground with enough force to shake the entire building.

Lobo lays there for a second, face down. Despero chuckles to himself, thinking his foe defeated.

Lobo slowly rises, his wounds healing, and for the first time in the movie, he's bleeding.

Two drops of blood fall the floor.

Despero looks on as the blood drops begin to grow and bubble. You can hear a faint, evil laugh mixed in with swearing as the blood begins to spawn TWO NEW LOBO'S.

Lobo and his two clones rise, evil smiles adourn their grim faces.

"Party time boys!!"

The three Lobo's dog-pile Despero, and the battle takes them to the edge of the Flame of Pytar. The pace of the fight escalates rapidly.

A scene with Despero fighting the 3 Lobo's around the edge of the firepit, with the camera whirling around the fight, in and out of the action, followed by quick, sharp edits of various blows being struck.

Lobo tells his clones to keep the pressure on, he'll be back in a second. Lobo whistles to his bike, which roars over to him at full speed. He hops on, then charges at Despero.

He jumps off at the last second, hook in hand, then plunges the hook into Despero's 3rd eye. An energy explosion is released and Despero falls into the Flame of Pytar.

As the three Lobo's stand on the edge of the pit, victorious, Lobo remarks...

"Well, thanks for the help boys. Counldn't have done it without ya."

And with that, he pushes both clones into the fire aswell.



Lobo goes back to check on the child, who is with Dox and some medical personel. With his contract complete, Lobo finds out that all this time Despero and Dox had guessed wrong on the effects of the Flame on the child.

Instead of releasing a soul-eating plague, the flame has actually used it's mystical properties to "cleanse" the child of the plague and basically save the universe.

Dox pays Lobo his fee, Lobo says "It's been a blast. Anytime you want someone fragged, ya come see tha Main Man!!"

"Thanks for saving the universe Lobo. Your a hero in the eyes of LEGION."

Lobo stops, turns, and looks at Dox with a chilling grin.

*SMACK!!* Lobo punches Dox out cold.

"The Main Man ain't no do-gooder, ya punk bastich!! And don't ya fraggin forget it!!"

"That goes for the rest of you losers." he says as he mounts his Space Hog.

LEGION members look at eachother with a sense of relief as Lobo departs, roaring into space with a maniacal laugh.

HulkSmash666
03-06-2008, 05:14 AM
It's a bit rushed and rough as guts, but I reckon with a bit of polishing, and some script writing courses, I could get a decent script from this story.

A biker movie in space, with a dash of Star Wars, Serenity/Firefly, Heavy Metal 2000 and a hint of Giffen style uber-violence.

No Toon-Force Lobo here, but more believable (if it makes sense).

ForeverTaskmaster
03-06-2008, 06:16 AM
Awesome script, but it sounds more like a L.E.G.I.O.N. movie. That's not a bad thing by the way so don't get me wrong. I think a Lobo solo movie is hard to realize. The problem is how do you keep Lobo interesting for 1:30 hours ?
I wouldn't mind seeing a L.E.G.I.O.N. movie with
your script. And of course Lobo must replicate when he bleeds. :-)

marshal99
03-06-2008, 06:48 AM
The Lobo fanfilm is still the best. ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9ooZYjF0mI

HulkSmash666
03-06-2008, 08:35 AM
Yeah, I've seen that movie. Not a bad effort considering the budget.

$2400 to make was a top effort.

The guy who played Lobo definetly looked the part, but his acting was fuckin dreadful.


Anyway, I reckon Ron Perlman would play an awesome Lobo. He's got the size, the acting ability, the tough guy visage, and he's got a deep, gruff voice.

ForeverTaskmaster- Thanks mate. And yeah, a LEGION movie would be cool (but my idea was to have them as more a police force/army of thousands led by an elite guard with superpowered members, yet none of them on a level with Lobo, and Dox is more a green human with a cold, analytical mind who expresses few emotions).

ForeverTaskmaster
03-06-2008, 09:02 AM
The guy who played Lobo definetly looked the part, but his acting was fuckin dreadful.

I totally agree. His acting was dreadful. When he talked it wasn't what I imagined Lobo's voice would be.

And as for Lobo I think Danny Trejo would make a great Lobo.

HulkSmash666
03-06-2008, 10:06 AM
I totally agree. His acting was dreadful. When he talked it wasn't what I imagined Lobo's voice would be.

And as for Lobo I think Danny Trejo would make a great Lobo.

If he could drop his accent, then yeah, he wouldn't be bad either.

It's Ron Perlman's voice that does it for me. He absolutely nailed Hellboy, IMO, and with another awesome make-up session, they could get the look perfect too.

I mean, if a guy can make himself look THAT much like Lobo on a budget of $2400 (that's the whole movie, not the make-up, which was basically silver body paint, a wig and some red contact lenses), then imagine what a million dollar Hollywood make-up job could do for Perlman if he was to play him.

I can think of others that could play him, but most of the names I come up with have softer voices, are too old, aren't big enough, or can't act for shit (Triple H, anyone).

metalhead_dave743
03-06-2008, 11:16 AM
I totally agree. His acting was dreadful. When he talked it wasn't what I imagined Lobo's voice would be.

And as for Lobo I think Danny Trejo would make a great Lobo.

The guy who played Lobo played Leatherface in the recent Texas Chainsaw movies.

Forefinger
03-06-2008, 11:45 AM
I'd watch any Lobo movie.

ForeverTaskmaster
03-06-2008, 11:48 AM
I can think of others that could play him, but most of the names I come up with have softer voices, are too old, aren't big enough, or can't act for shit (Triple H, anyone).
Triple H can't act for shit in films and in wrestling. It's unbelievable that he is considered to be a star. If there ever is an official Lobo movie and they want Triple H to play it I will never watch a Hollywood movie again.

2400 bucks shows you that you don't have to spend a gazillion dollars to make a movie. Blame it on the greedy actors in those gazillion dollar movies.

HulkSmash666
03-06-2008, 12:21 PM
Triple H can't act for shit in films and in wrestling. It's unbelievable that he is considered to be a star. If there ever is an official Lobo movie and they want Triple H to play it I will never watch a Hollywood movie again.

2400 bucks shows you that you don't have to spend a gazillion dollars to make a movie. Blame it on the greedy actors in those gazillion dollar movies.

Couldn't agree more.

This movie could be made for around $100 million to make it a good as it can be. That means absolute top-notch special effects/CGI (which would be a HELL of a lot, almost every frame of the movie would have an effects shot of some sort), plus for that money you could get a top director (my vote would be for Guellermo Del Toro from Hellboy, as he would nail the freaky looking aliens and strange universe Lobo is apart of), and mainly someone to platy Lobo, and someone to play Dox and the crew of LEGION, and Despero would be CGI with a voice actor.

StoneGold
03-06-2008, 12:47 PM
Lobo stopped being fun around 1992. Hell, even Giffen can't write him these days. Did you read that last mini he did? Blech. And Giffen was the only guy who could really write him.

Shellhead
03-06-2008, 03:21 PM
Lobo stopped being fun around 1992. Hell, even Giffen can't write him these days. Did you read that last mini he did? Blech. And Giffen was the only guy who could really write him.

I thought that Lobo was reasonably funny in 52 and Brave & the Bold.

StoneGold
03-06-2008, 03:57 PM
I thought that Lobo was reasonably funny in 52 and Brave & the Bold.

Then I would disagree with you. Grant Morrison should not be writing Lobo. Actually, if Alan Grant's solo work with the character means anything, perhaps no Scottish writer should.





Although I was wrong, the Lobo crossovers with Authority were decent. Not up there with Lobo, Lobo's Back, Paramilitary Christmas Special, Infanticide, and the SDCC special (which was pretty much all the Giffen stuff outside of LEGION), but better than anything else Lobo.

DoctorDoom
03-06-2008, 04:08 PM
Brad Garrett's voice nails it for me, but I can understand Ron Perlman.

HulkSmash666
03-06-2008, 04:59 PM
Brad Garrett's voice nails it for me, but I can understand Ron Perlman.

He did a good job as Lobo's voice in the cartoons, but he's too old, too squishy, and too goofy lookin to play this type of badass.

GRANT!
03-06-2008, 09:42 PM
Not a fan of tossing out the name of every actor that worked with Joss Whedon... but what about Adam Baldwin.