12 R-Rated Comic Book Movies We Need To See After Logan & Deadpool

9. Lobo

It feels like an age since Warner Bros announced that Guy Ritchie was set to helm a Lobo film in 2009 with an "irreverent, gruff tone" that would have seen the hyper-violent alien teaming up with a small-town teenage girl to find and take down four dangerous space fugitives. Try and avoid imagining Masters Of The Universe at this point...

Annoyingly, that film was set to be a PG-13, so it's pretty lucky Sherlock Holmes landed so well that a sequel as pushed and Ritchie became unavailable. Especially as he'd probably have cast Jason Statham or something.

Now, after some development hell stumbles, Jason Fuchs is apparently writing a new script, and while Dwayne Johnson was tentatively on board, he's not now, even as the project steams ahead. The important question here is whether they'll go R-rated.

The Likelihood

An R-rating is as crucial to Lobo as it was to Deadpool, and the idea of shackling him with a PG-13 is as ludicrous as the idea that Fox initially entertained the idea of 'Pool not breaking the fourth wall. It is a definitive part of his make-up, and part of his powers that he commits cartoonish, nightmarish violence. And hopefully Fuchs knows his character enough to recognise that.

It's just a shame that The Rock can't play two DC characters. Maybe Tom Hardy could fill his boots?