Bloodshot
Vin Diesel, ROWW Tease BLOODSHOT Ahead Of Thursday’s #Game4Paul Event
Fans looking to tune into something or anything Vin Diesel-related can now pan over to new photos being released teasing the actor’s incarnation of Valiant Comics’ supersoldier, Bloodshot. Diesel will be on hand on Thursday alongside fellow Fast And Furious cohorts Tyrese Gibson and Sung Kang and Reach Out WorldWide CEO Cody Walker for the fourth annual fundraising event.
Vin Diesel Confirmed As BLOODSHOT Ahead Of Summer Production
Actor Vin Diesel is still brewing a return to the Fast lane for Universal with at least two films to go. Apart from this, it was back in January that word arose of his name circling the title role of debut helmer Dave Wilson’s Valiant adaptation, Bloodshot, adjoining the actor with another prolific comic book IP since attaining Marvel’s “Groot” in Marvel’s Guardians Of The Galaxy.
It was this week, however, that Deadline’s report cites an official deal in writing for Sony Pictures production hailing as one of a raft of films encompassing a cinematic universe based on the Valiant comic book series. Wilson, a long time collaborator with Deadpool creator Tim Miller, is helming from a script Oscar-nominated Arrival scribe Eric Heisserer which Mike Fleming Jr. and Patrick Hipes at Deadline are saying will deliver in similar tone to that of classic R-Rated 1980s tentpoles like Robocop, Terminator and Total Recall.
Sony is moving forward with principal photography starting in July with Fast saga producer Neal H. Moritz producing with Toby Jaffe and Dinesh Shamdasani. Matthew Vaughn and Dan Mintz are executive producing with Andrea Giannetti overseeing for Sony.
per Deadline with a word on the origins of the character:
Bloodshot is a central character in the Valiant Expanded Universe, composed of thousands of characters embodying various genres, tones and demographic groups — ordinary people in extraordinary situations rather than gods and demi-gods.
The Bloodshot series, comprised of more 110 issues with more than 7.5 million copies sold, centers on Ray Garrison, aka Bloodshot. Brought back from the dead by Rising Spirit Technologies through the use of nanotechnology and suffering total memory loss, Ray struggles to reconnect with who he was while learning what sort of weapon he has become, with the help of a group of other augmented combatants (called Chainsaw).
Diesel is repped by CAA and Brillstein Entertainment Partners with Wilson by ICM Partners and 3 Arts, and Heiserer by WME.
Jared Leto Reportedly Eyeing BLOODSHOT For Sony
With Sony Pictures still brewing their Valiant Comics slate, this week’s update now has actor Jared Leto up for the title role of Bloodshot in a new feature adaptation. Dave Wilson, Deadpool director Tim Miller’s partner at Blur Studios will be making his feature debut as of March with Original Films’s Neal Moritz and Toby Jaffe producing with Valiant’s own Dinesh Shamdasani.
Upon confirmation, Leto’s role will see him as Angelo Mortalli, a ruthless mob enforcer ensnared by both the family and the Witness Protection program, only to be subject to an experimental program involving the use of cutting-edge nanites to reconstruct his brain and body, turning him into a superhuman killing machine equipped with enhanced strength, speed, endurance, and healing. Bloodshot was created by Kevin VanHook, Don Perlin, and Bob Layton in 1992.
Matthew Vaughn and Jason Kothari on as executive producers. The film is just the second of a five-film plot building toward the culimating fifth title, Harbinger Wars in a deal between Valiant and DMG Entertainment, with Harbinger first up for production as of last September. The role of Bloodshot is also an intergral character for upcoming webseries, Ninjak VS. The Valiant Universe from directors Aaron Schoenke and Sean Schoenke.
Leto will next appear and Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2046 on October 6, 2017. (Deadline)
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