\u201cI remember the walls of my comic book store in Iowa, and I remember being there with a friend who was the guy who introduced me to everything,\u201d Momoa muses. \u201cI don\u2019t remember which one I got first. At that time I just bought a bunch of stuff, and it was just tons and tons of comic books.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The ones featuring Lobo cumulatively left an impression on the Hawaiian actor, too, who originally lobbied to play the bounty hunter years ago before being cast instead as Aquaman in Zack Snyder\u2019s version of the DC Universe in the 2010s. And it was also Momoa who directly texted James Gunn when news first trickled out that Gunn was probably rebooting the DCU in this decade. Much of the iconography we associate with Lobo\u2014the motorcycle, the cigar, the leather\u2014is here, as are elements that the actor invented wholecloth, such as giving Lobo basically metal talons on his fingers.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just more weapons,\u201d says Momoa. \u201cI think it\u2019s just fun to be able to rip someone\u2019s face off with claws. He\u2019s got the fangs and everything, he\u2019s just a big beast\u2026. he\u2019s a Grizzly Bear.\u201d<\/p>\n
Momoa seems to be a genuine fan of the material. When we even mention an infamous comic book story wherein Lobo is hired by the Easter Bunny, the actor interjects \u201cto kill Santa Claus\u201d before we finish our sentence. With that said, he\u2019s not sure his Lobo would take that job.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, it\u2019s tough to say. I like Santa Claus,\u201d Momoa laughs. \u201cI\u2019m a fan of the character. But sure, I think there should be something funny in there, and Santa should definitely be in there, and I should definitely give him the eye.\u201d<\/p>\n
Of course not everything that works in a comic book works in a movie and vice versa. Some of this is due to commercial considerations, such as the fact that while Tom King\u2019s Kara swears like a sailor, Alcock\u2019s is only permitted one F-bomb in a PG-13 rating. Hence why they shot multiple scenes where Alcock dropped the four-letter word, leaving choices in the final edit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI remember the walls of my comic book store in Iowa, and I remember being there with a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-656043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}