Who Is Bloodshot Vin Diesel’s New Superhero Explained

Who Is Bloodshot? Vin Diesel’s New Superhero Explained

Just who is Bloodshot, the Valiant hero Vin Diesel is playing this weekend? And what are the chances this movie will launch a Valiant movie line?

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Who Is Bloodshot Vin Diesel’s New Superhero Explained

Vin Diesel’s Bloodshot is about to hit theatres. If successful, the superhero actioner could serve to launch an MCU-style universe based on the Valiant line of comic book characters. So just who is Bloodshot and how did he go from a languishing ’90’s property to Hollywood source material?

Valiant Comics launched in 1989 as the brain-child of former Marvel editor-in-chief Jim Shooter alongside lawyer Steven Massarsky. The company would top talent from Marvel, such as Barry Windsor-Smith and Bob Layton. Valiant launched its first title in 1991 with Magnus, Robot Fighter, and would go on to launch many other top-selling characters such as Harbinger, Ninjak, and of course, Bloodshot.

Bloodshot first appeared in a cameo in Eternal Warrior #4 in 1992. Originally a ruthless mobster, Angelo Mortalli winds up in witness protection, only to be betrayed and inducted into Project Rising Spirit. The experimental program rebuilds his body using nanites, giving Mortalli enhanced strength, coordination, senses, and control of electronic devices, all at the cost of his memory. Billed as modern-day Frankenstein, Mortalli becomes Bloodshot and undertakes a blood-soaked search his own bloodstained past. Unfortunately, Valiant’s own history would prove just as turbulent.

Following the disastrous Image crossover Deathmate, Valiant and its parent company Voyager Communications were acquired by video game developer Acclaim Entertainment in 1994. The company would go on to create several comics based on video game properties, including Shadow Man and Turok: Dinosaur Hunter. Bloodshot was rebooted, this time as Raymond Garrison, an undercover operative within the mob family who had taken the identity of Angelo Mortalli. While his nanite origin remains largely the same, his appearance was slightly tweaked.

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Acclaim’s influence on the character would be curtailed in 2004 when the company filed for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy. In 2012, Valiant Entertainment would re-launch with a new line of rebooted characters, Bloodshot among them. Like the Acclaim reboot, Valiant’s third iteration of the character kept many of the same elements – as an amnesiac one-man army, but this time writer Duane Swierczynski added the mystery of fake memories, which the government used to keep Bloodshot on a tight leash. Bloodshot eventually slips from their control, and must now figure out what from his past is real and manufactured.

Whispers of a Valiant cinematic universe had long circulated the industry. 2018 saw the debut of the web series Ninjak vs. The Valiant Universe, with Bloodshot played by former Power Ranger and MMA fighter Jason David Frank. Vin Diesel was also announced as signing on to the Bloodshot role that same year. If successful, Bloodshot could serve as the keystone to a Valiant Cinematic Universe. Given Vin Diesel’s track record and the film’s relatively modest $45 million budget, Bloodshot could easily see the creation of the Valiant Cinematic Universe. Unfortunately, the only thing standing in Bloodshot’s way is the coronavirus, with Hollywood investors already dreading the impact the global pandemic will have on the box office. The million-dollar question is just how much Bloodshot can recoup at the movies when the film opens on March 13th, 2020.

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