Giffen vs Giffen

Variety magazine tells me that Joel Silver and Guy Ritchie are making a Lobo movie. This is their summary:

In the film, he is a seven-foot tall, blue-skinned, indestructible and heavily muscled anti-hero who drives a pimped out motorcycle, and lands on Earth in search of four fugitives who are bent on wreaking havoc. Lobo teams with a small town teenaged girl to stop the creatures.

Lobo was co-created for DC by Keith Giffen, who also happened to write a 2006 mini-series for Marvel called Drax the Destroyer: Earth Fall (well, not really, but that's the title of the TPB). In that story, Drax crashes to Earth on a prison transport and has to hunt down four escaped prisoners (the Blood Brothers, Lunatik, and Paibok the Power Skrull) with the help of a young girl named Cammi [pictured below, with Drax and Phyla-Vell].

Given that Silver and Ritchie want a PG-13 for their Lobo movie, it makes sense to use Earth Fall rather than, say, the Last Czarnian, which is wildly violent (though, also, wildly entertaining).

Now, of course, it's far more likely that the similar-sounding summaries won't be reflected in the execution. Who knows if Silver and Ritchie have even read Drax. The Lobo movie has been in development for maybe ten years. Longer, anyway, than it has been since Giffen wrote Drax. It's just funny is all. The idea that they're using a Giffen story for a different Giffen property.