Jason Momoa gets his wish to play another DC character

Henry Cavill couldn’t hang on to Superman’s mantle, but Jason Momoa was happy to give up Aquaman’s trident if it meant he could take a stab at another DC character. On Monday, Momoa confirmed that his manifestation rituals had worked and that he will play Lobo in DC’s Supergirl: Woman Of Tomorrow (via Black). The news comes almost exactly a year after the premiere of Momoa’s last DC appearance, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom.

Momoa shared his happiness for Instagram by posting a screenshot of a quote from a 2023 interview with Fandangoin which he said, “I collect comics and I don’t do that much anymore, but he’s always been my favorite and I’ve always wanted to play Lobo because I’m like, ‘Hey? That’s the perfect role.’ I mean, look, if they call and ask me to play him, I didn’t get that call, so I don’t want to put fake news out there, but if they ever call me and ask me to play, or asks me to audition, I’m there.” Captioning his IG post, Momoa cheekily added, “They called.”

While they may not have made the official call at that December 2023 interview, DC bosses James Gunn and Peter Safran must have been pretty receptive to the idea when they took over the studio. After a meeting with the duo, Momoa teased in late 2022, “There are many cool things that will appear. One of my dreams coming true will happen under their watch. So stay tuned!” And in January 2023, he suggested that Black “There might be some other characters” he could play: “I might be funny and wild and charming.”

“Fun and wild” is certainly one way to describe Lobo (your mileage may vary on “charming”). The character, an alien intergalactic bounty hunter and mercenary, is sometimes depicted as a villain, sometimes as an anti-hero. Either way, he’s typically a brash, arrogant, violent alien biker whose appearances are typically marked by a dark sense of humor.

2026 Supergirl film, cast House of the Dragon‘s Milly Alcock, already cast as a villain earlier this year. Matthias Schoenaerts is supposed to play Krem of the Yellow Hills, the villain from Tom King and Bilquis Evely’s comic book Supergirl: Woman Of Tomorrow. Lobo was not in that story, although King originally conceived the plot with Lobo as the protagonist (sore ComicBook.com). It’s unclear how Lobo will fare in the film adaptation, but Gunn has introduced a whole lot of DC-related characters in the projects he’s overseen so far. All to say: Aquaman is dead, long live Lobo.