

Is there any aspect of that you find concerning? But at the same time, the identity of the Fast franchise has veered across the board in almost every way a franchise could - its cast, tone, directors, continuity and characters have all been subject to change. Bob LaytonĭEADLINE: Neal Moritz has got amazing mileage out of The Fast and The Furious brand. Deadline caught up with Layton upon his return and learned more about the film, which is due in theaters in February 2020. Last week, the Bloodshot set had a special visitor: Bob Layton, co-creator of the character and the former editor-in-chief of Valiant, made the long journey to see his brainchild make the leap to a new medium. Vin Diesel Back In Action With Sony's 'Bloodshot', Valiant Comic Adaptation With Dave Wilson Directing Sony high hopes that Bloodshot will be the keystone for a new cinematic universe based on Valiant superhero properties ( X-O Manowar and Harbinger among them) in an interlocking mythology. Andrea Giannetti is overseeing for Sony, which has Cross Creek as a partner on the project.


The script by Oscar-nominated Arrival scribe Eric Heisserer introduces Diesel as the cyborg called Bloodshot, an unstoppable machine-man assassin whose human memories were wiped clean by the lab experiment that created him.īloodshot has a first-time director in Dave Wilson, the longtime Blur Studio collaborator of Deadpool director Tim Miller (who, as it happens, is helming his own mechanized-assassin movie with The Terminator reboot that has been shooting in Europe). Moritz and actor Vin Diesel have logged a lot of miles together with The Fast and The Furious franchise, but the reunited tandem have been in South Africa working on a very different action epic for Sony: Bloodshot, which adapts the sci-fi superhero introduced in 1992 in the pages of Valiant Comics.
