After years of circling the role, Jason Momoa has finally stepped into the biker boots of the interstellar Czarnian bounty hunter, Lobo. Momoa broke the news himself via Instagram by posting a quote from a 2023 interview with Fandango in which he stated that if he was ever called and asked to play the character, he would. He then commented on his own post, simply stating, “They called.”
Shortly after Momoa’s Instagram reveal, Hollywood trades reported that the star would first appear in the all-new DCU in Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow which is scheduled to hit theaters on June 26, 2026. The news was then “confirmed” by DC Studios’ co-CEO James Gunn, who posted a picture of the character across various social media platforms. With principal photography on that project slated to begin shortly after the new year, the coordinated release and confirmation of Momoa’s casting may indicate his role in Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow may be larger than a cameo and that the studio expects he’ll be seen on set.
Even as he waxed hopeful that he’d continue as Aquaman in the new DCU, Momoa never shied away from sharing his desire to play Lobo. First appearing in 1983’s Omega Men #3, Lobo, the self-described Ultimate Bastich rose to fame with a very metal redesign as a hyper-violent, spacebike-riding mass murderer. While his role in Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow is unclear, the two characters do have a shared history in DC Comics. Unlikely to be a true villain in the film, Lobo will almost certainly be introduced as a thorn in the side of Kara Zor-El with the possibility that he’ll eventually help the hero in some self-serving way.
The casting of Momoa as Lobo works incredibly well both in that the actor loves the character and in that he won’t have to act at all. Though there’s been no comment on future appearances by the character, it would seem likely that future appearances, perhaps including a Lobo-centric project, are likely.
Source: THR
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