Sam Heughan Joins Vin Diesel On The Big Screen In Bloodshot.
Sam Heughan (Outander), Eiza Gonzalez (Baby Driver) and Michael Sheen join Vin Diesel in Sony’s Bloodshot based on the Valiant comic, sources confirmed to Variety.
The studio had already been announced it would be moving forward with its five-film shared universe plan, based on the Valiant comic books Harbinger and Bloodshot.
Bloodshot is about a mortally wounded soldier resurrected with cutting-edge nanotechnology and tasked with rounding up superpowered outcasts known as “harbingers.” Bloodshot was created by Kevin Van Hook, Don Perlin, and Bob Layton in 1992. The project has big franchise potential at Sony.
Fast and the Furious’ Neal Moritz will be producing alongside Valiant’s Dinesh Shamdasani.
Following her breakout role in Baby Driver, the studio had been searching for a potential franchise for Gonzalez. The rising star recently landed the female lead in Kung Fury 2, starring Michael Fassbender. She will next appear in the Robert Zemeckis pic The Women of Marwen and Robert Rodriguez’s Alita: Battle Angel.
Heughan’s fan base as we know is from the STARZ hit Outlander. While we are waiting for Outlander to return, we can next Heughan in Lionsgate’s The Spy Who Dumped Me.
Sheen has a handful of films coming out next year, including The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle, starring Robert Downey Jr..
