In April, Warner Bros. and ĂĽber-producer Joel Silver tasked Brad Peyton with rewriting and directing a Lobo movie.  Shortly thereafter, erstwhile The Rock dropped some allusions to potentially appearing in a DC movie, leading fans to quickly put two and two together, thinking he might just be considering a cosmic jaunt as Lobo.  But, being a man who knows how to play the online rumor game just as adroitly as he arches an eyebrow or drops a devastating People's Elbow, Johnson allowed the rumor to simmer.

And now, Dwayne Johnson has confirmed that he may indeed star in Lobo somewhere down the line.  Johnson took to the People's Twitter (@TheRock) to answer a fan's question about the rumor, responding, "Rumors of me possibly playing LOBO are true. Joel Silver and Brad Peyton working on it now. That could be fun.."

Note the "possibly" there, important since Lobo is in early development.  If it ends up happening and Johnson ends up playing Lobo, it would be a reunion between the actor and Journey 2: The Mysterious Island director.  Peyton is also the helmer behind Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore.  Peyton is currently rewriting previous Lobo drafts written by My Super Ex-Girlfriend writer and Thor contributor Don Payne.  Payne was working with director Guy Ritchie, who was attached for a spell, and crafted a story that found Lobo teaming up with a young lady in a rural setting on Earth.

Created by Roger Slifer and Keith Giffen in the early 1980s, Lobo began basically as DC's answer to the grizzled, cigar-smoking, beer-drinking Wolverine.  Over the 1990s, as he grew ever-more outrageous, though, Lobo became an outsized parody of the nihilistic anti-heroes populating comic books throughout the decade.  Lobo's an extraterrestrial who exterminated his own species for fun and who operates as a mercenary and bounty hunter, riding his intergalactic hog around the universe, bedding women and getting soused.

Johnson will be seen in March of next year in the delayed sequel G.I. Joe: Retaliation, as well as next May's sixth installment in The Fast and the Furious franchise. Next year he'll also star alongside Mark Wahlberg in Pain & Gain, the darkly comic actioner from director Michael Bay.