Vin Diesel Shares First Look At Valiant & Sony’s ‘Bloodshot’

Vin Diesel is a bonafide action star with a number of high-octane franchises under his belt, from xXx to Riddick and, of course, The Fast & the Furious. Now the actor is looking to for a new family in Bloodshot and the sprawling Valiant Universe.

Earlier today Vin Diesel posted an image to Instagram of himself sporting Army camo and his signature aviator sunglasses with the caption:

“Let the Valiant era begin…
#Bloodshot2020“

You can see the post below:

What may look like just another day for Vin Diesel about to hit the gym, is actually our first look at him as Ray Garrison in the upcoming Valiant Comics adaptation of Bloodshot, which was created by Kevin VanHook, Don Perlin and Bob Layton in 1992. Garrison is a specially skilled soldier who is resurrected by way of highly-advanced nanotechnology by a weapons contractor.

The film is meant to kick off a cinematic universe based on the popular Valiant Comics, which boasts the third-largest universe of comics behind the Big Two in Marvel and DC. So far there are good reasons to get excited for Bloodshot. For one, Sony has gone on the record as describing the film as an R-rated adaptation that will:

“be tonally and aesthetically influenced by high-concept sci-fi blockbusters of the late 80s.”

What’s more is that the script has been penned by Oscar-nominated writer Eric Heisserer, who wrote Arrival and the more recent Bird Box for Netflix. Dave Wilson is directing.

Are you excited for Bloodshot? Do you think that Valiant will be the next big name in cinematic superhero universes? Let us know what you think in the comments below!

Here is a plot synopsis for Bloodshot:

Bloodshot follows Ray Garrison aka Bloodshot, a deceased soldier resurrected by weapons contractor Rising Spirit Technologies through the use of nanotechnology. Suffering from total memory loss but imbued with an array of staggering new abilities, Ray struggles to reconnect with who he was while learning what sort of weapon he has become…aided by a team of fellow augmented combatants codenamed Chainsaw.

Bloodshot is set to premiere sometime in 2020.

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