WHILE Marvel's careful world-building has paid off at the box office with its current culmination in the record-breaking Avengers, the page-to-screen journey of DC characters via Warner Bros has been far more haphazard.
Aside from Nolan's Batman saga, Green Lantern didn't glow; Wonder Woman went from Paradise Island to development hell (executives catastrophically failed to support Joss Whedon's efforts to write and direct an adaptation); The Flash isn't running anywhere; and a Justice League film was disbanded.
So what is Warner Bros offering instead? Journey 2: The Mysterious Island filmmaker Brad Peyton is to write and direct an adaptation of superhuman bounty hunter Lobo, who was created as an indictment of antiheroes like Wolverine and Punisher but instead caught on as a cult favourite.
He has no household recognition, of course, but a recent rumor seems to give the concept a bit more clout by suggesting Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson - who worked with Peyton on Journey 2 - is up for the title role.
Surfacing on comics site Bleeding Cool as a piece of uncorroborated insider information, talk of The Rock's involvement is at this point unfounded. But Dwayne himself has sparked fan interest in DC film possibilities with a tease via his Twitter account.
When responding to a message that suggested him for the commando Gravedigger or for John Stewart (an African-American who becomes a Green Lantern), he simply replied: "Funny you say that..."
While the actor has built up recognition and status, he seems an unlikely choice and odd fit for Lobo and is too musclebound to play John Stewart. It's unclear if there is any truth to the tittle-tattle or whether it's Johnson trying to kick-start a fan campaign that is then taken on board by studio bosses.
There's also been fresh chatter about Amora the Enchantress making her big-screen debut in Thor 2, though it's absolutely no surprise to us here at the Geek Files - as David speculated exactly that s...
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[Source: Coventry Telegraph - The Geek Files]
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