Clancy Brown is one of those “Oh yeah, that guy” actors. I bet he could walk down the street and no one would even ask for an autograph. And if the rumour is true, he may be the top contender to play the DC Comics antihero Lobo.
A source close to production told them that Brown might be the man. Apparently with the amount of special effects needed to create the character, there isn’t too much concern in bringing in a high profile name to lead this project.
“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?“
The very idea of a Lobo film perplexes me. It can go one of two ways. They take this very two dimensional character and create something very cool for him and make a great film. Or they realize there isn’t anything to do with him and just fart something out hoping to bank on the incomprehesible popularity of the character.
I agree that you don’t need to go A-List to cast him, but I wonder if they are going to CGI Lobo entirely? Sgt. Zim and the Kurgan both had physical presence on screen, so they could use him. But no one is as impossibly proportioned as Lobo is, and the die hard fans that are going to want to see this will just moan if he isn’t 400 pounds and 9 feet tall.
I would really like to be surprised by this film, and see something that makes me want to see it. Casting Clancy Brown might be a good plan, but I still don’t see why this guy is getting a movie when there are so many other worthwhile characters in the roster with actual stories.
