Actor Jason Momoa is ditching the trident rod he held throughout DC Studios’ “Aquaman” films as he was recently announced to play the rugged antihero Lobo in the upcoming “Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow” movie.
Momoa, 45, announced he is playing Lobo in an Instagram post shared on Monday, which contains a previous statement he made about the character.
“So Lobo was… I collect comics, and I don’t do so much anymore, but he was always my favorite, and I always wanted to play Lobo, because I’m like, “Hello? It’s the perfect role,” Momoa’s statement reads. “I mean, listen. If they call and ask me to play him, it’s a (expletive) yeah. I haven’t received that call, so I don’t want to put any fake news out there, but if they ever call me and ask me to play or ask me to audition, I’m there.”
The caption for Momoa’s recent Instagram post says, “They called.”
Momoa will join Milly Alcock, who will play Kara Zor-El/Supergirl, in the Craig Gillespie-directed DC Comics film. The expected release date for the movie, which is currently in pre-production, is June 26, 2026, according to IMDB.
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The movie will also be co-produced by James Gunn, the director of Marvel’s “Guardians of the Galaxy” films, who was announced as the co-CEO and co-chairperson of DC Studios in 2022 along with film producer Peter Safran.
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Who is Lobo?
Lobo is an intergalactic alien who became the “best bounty hunter” in the galaxy, according to his DC Comics biography.
The character, who is often referred to as “The Main Man,” is named after a wolf because “the word ‘Lobo’ in this instance translates into ‘he who devours your entrails and thoroughly enjoys it’ in the ancient Khund dialect,” his bio reads.
“Riding around the spaceways on his ‘space cycle,’ which he named Spacehog, Lobo exhibits all the traits someone would associate with a biker in a Hell’s Angels-style motorcycle gang on Earth, from his long hair and tattoos, down to his kill or be killed attitude,” according to the character’s bio. “There’s nothing in the galaxy that Lobo loves more than his pet dolphins, a good fight, the ladies and getting drunk in some intergalactic dive bar. Probably all in that order.”
As an antihero, Lobo has “fought on the side of both the good guys and the bad” as he goes with whoever pays him the most to get the job done, or which side “promises him the better (and) bloodier fight,” his bio reads. He has fought Superman, the Justice League and just about every superhero in the DC Universe, according to the bio.
Cast of ‘Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow’
- Milly Alcock as Kara Zor-El/Supergirl
- Jason Momoa as Lobo
- Matthias Schoenaerts as Krem of the Yellow Hills
- Eve Ridley as Ruthye Marye Knoll
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