Variety is reporting that Warner Bros. Pictures has tapped “Snatch” and “Sherlock Holmes” director Guy Ritchie to direct a live-action adaptation of DC Comic’s “Lobo,” a title about a foul-mouthed hyperactive bounty hunter from space. Don Payne wrote the most recent script, and Joel Silver, Akiva Goldsman and Andrew Rona will be producing the project, which will be a co-production between Weed Road and Silver Pictures. The film will focus on Lobo, a seven-foot tall, blue-skinned, ultra-violent, and indestructible anti-hero bounty hunter who drives a flying motorcycle and comes to Earth seeking four fugitives who are bent on wrecking even more havoc than him. He teams up with a small…

Guy Ritchie, the acclaimed filmmaker behind “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels”, “Snatch” and the recent “RocknRolla” is starting principal photography on his “Sherlock Holms” film in London, according to Warner Bros. The film, starring Robert Downey Jr. as the eccentric, antagonistic, and brilliant detective made famous in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories, first starting in 1887. Aided by his loyal friend, war veteran, skilled doctor, and documentarian, Dr. Watson, Holmes became famous in print for his almost impossible acumen of knowledge, allowing him to make obscure but staggeringly accurate leaps of logic to solve seemingly impossible cases the police cannot. The character had his final original adventure in 1914…