Sony Pictures and
Valiant Comics have come up with a deal and plenty of talent to adapt Don
Perlin, Kevin VanHook, and Bob Layton's Bloodshot, and Jim Shooter, and David
Lapham's Harbinger. Both titles are the first two of a five-picture deal
between both companies. Both titles will have two films each before culminating
together in the fifth one titled Harbinger Wars.
According to The
Hollywood Reporter, Bloodshot will be helmed by John Wick directors David
Leitch, and Chad Stahelski from a script by Jeff Wadlow (Kick-Ass 2), and Eric
Heisserer (The Thing), and will follow "a soldier brought back from the
dead by a secret government agency, turned into an unstoppable killing machine
with no memory, powered by nanotechnology." Bloodshot will be produced by
Matthew Vaughn, and Jason Kothari, and is being set up for a 2017 release.
This isn't the first
time we hear of Bloodshot being adapted to the big screen. Last year Valiant
CEO Dinesh Shamdasani confirmed that the title was getting the big screen
treatment, though at the time Matthew Vaughn was rumored to be the one
directing the property.
As for Harbinger, no directors have yet been named,
but Heisserer is said to be in charge of penning the script, which will deal
with "a group of superpowered beings
on the run from the Harbinger Foundation, an organization run by a mysterious
philanthropist Toyo Harada."
Sony has other
Valiant properties in development, like the action comedy Archer &
Armstrong, and the supernatural thriller Shadowman.
Source - THR
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