James Gunn has revealed the text Jason Momoa sent him about Lobo the day it was announced Gunn and Peter Safran would be taking over as co-CEOs of DC Studios. Momoa has been cast as Lobo in the DCU and will appear in the upcoming Supergirl movie, but rumors had long swirled about the actor taking on the anti-hero role.

Momoa texting Gunn as soon as possible to pitch himself as Lobo shouldn’t come as a surprise to fans of the actor, who has spoken publicly in the past about his desire to play the alien bounty hunter in a live-action DC project.

I joined a small group of journalists for a DC Studios presentation with co-CEOs James Gunn and Peter Safran at the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank, California, and one of the many different heroes and villains discussed during the hour-long conversation was Jason Momoa ’s Lobo.

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With the character set to make his cinematic debut in the upcoming film 'Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow', it has emerged Jason Momoa unashamedly chased the job of playing anti-hero Lobo for DC with a foul-mouthed text message.