While Sony Pictures continues to
have its ties to Marvel via film rights to Spider-Man and his stable of related
characters like Venom and Morbius (the latter to get a movie this coming July),
it has also branched into other comic-book brands as well. Notably, they are
producing via Columbia Pictures a film featuring a character from Valiant
Comics, the label formed in 1989 by ex-Marvel editor-in-chief Jim Shooter.
Valiant recently inked a deal for movie adaptations of their characters with
several studios like Sony. Their first, coming this year, stars Vin Diesel as “Bloodshot,”
with a trailer newly released.
As Comic Book Resources tells it, a longer trailer is now available
from Sony-Columbia Pictures and Original Film-Valiant Entertainment, featuring
the Valiant Comics super-soldier character being portrayed by Vin Diesel. While
the first “Bloodshot” trailer from two months ago delves into hints of the
character’s origin story, this second preview gives a more in-depth look into
his amazing superhuman abilities, rooted in the army of nano-machines injected
into his blood. It definitely is not one of the mainline superhero concepts,
but the visuals depicting Bloodshot’s tech-based power is certainly a feast of
intricate special effects.
“Bloodshot” as already revealed
is about an amnesiac soldier named Ray Garrison (Diesel). He awakes without memories
in the care of a special covert-ops project, which explains that he had died in
combat and revived with nanite technology that grants him superhuman physical
abilities and a powerful healing factor that can rebuilt any damage to his
body. While originally placed in a top-secret unit with other enhanced
operatives, Bloodshot starts having unaccountable flashbacks and dreams. When
his mission targets begin hinting to him that his handlers are not what they
seem, Bloodshot starts reconsidering his priorities and his nature, becoming a
super-weapon freed from control.
Under the direction of “Avengers:
Age of Ultron” VFX supervisor Dave Wilson, from a script by Jeff Wadlow and
Eric Eric Heisserer, “Bloodshot” was Sony’s initial entry to a planned shared
universe film franchise for Valiant Comics. The sticking point to this concept
was that the follow-up movie, based on the Valiant title “Harbinger,” has been
shopped out to Paramount Pictures and put through a new period of development
before production. The original verse plan was to have two “Bloodshot” movies
and two “Harbinger” films alternating release with Sony, before having a
crossover between the two properties. “Bloodshot” as it is now will premiere
March 13, a month later from its original announced release date.
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