If you want to get a feel for all three acts of Sony’s latest superhero flick, by all means watch the first official trailer forBloodshot. But if you’re actually interested in, you know, experiencing the movie as it was meant to be instead of seeing all the major beats laid out in miniature, you might want to skip it; it’sspoilery. The feature film adaptation of the Eisner and Harvey Award-nominated comic book series stars international superstarVin Diesel(The Fast & The Furiousfranchise) withGuy Pearce(The Hurt Locker),Eiza Gonzalez(Baby Driver),Sam Heughan(Outlander),Lamorne Morris(New Girl),Toby Kebbell(Kong: Skull Island), andTalulah Riley(Westworld).
Who’s Bloodshot, you ask? What’sBloodshot, exactly? Brought back from the dead by Rising Spirit Technologies through the use of nanotechnology and suffering total memory loss, Ray Garrison – aka Bloodshot (Diesel) – 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.
An elevated sci-fi/action film based on the blockbuster series of comic books,Bloodshotwas written by Academy Award-nomineeEric Heisserer(Arrival) andJeff Wadlow(Kick Ass 2) and directed byDave Wilson(Love Death + Robots). The film reunites Diesel with hisThe Fast & The FuriousproducerNeal Moritz, who is producing alongsideToby Jaffefor Original Film, andDinesh Shamdasanifor Hivemind.Bloodshotwill arrive in theaters worldwide on February 21st, 2020.
Check out the first trailer forBloodshotbelow:
Originally created in 1992 byBob Layton,Kevin VanHook, andDon PerlinforValiant Comics,Bloodshothas sold more than 8 million comic books worldwide and remains one of the most popular and enduring comics creations of the past 25 years. Returned to the fore in 2012 as one of the flagship titles of Valiant’s best-selling relaunch, the character’s modern incarnation both inspired Sony’s feature film adaptation and spawned dozens of awards and nominations, including the prestigious Eisner and Harvey Awards, with contributions from leading talents such as New York Times best-selling writerJeff Lemire(Gideon Falls), Edgar Award-nomineeDuane Swierczynski(Birds of Prey), Eisner Award-nomineeJoshua Dysart(Unknown Soldier), New York Times best-selling writerMatt Kindt(Mind MGMT), Harvey Award-nomineeLewis LaRosa(The Punisher), Harvey Award nomineeMico Suayan(Joker/Harley Quinn), and many more.
