Vin Diesel is Officially Set To Star in BLOODSHOT
A couple of months ago we learned that Vin Diesel was in talks to join Sony Pictures' feature film adaptation of Valiant Comics' Bloodshot. The movie is set to be directed by Dave Wilson, who is Deadpool director Tim Miller's partner at Blur Studios.
Diesel is said to take on the role of Bloodshot, a super-soldier created by the secret government organization Project Rising Spirit when heHe was brought back from the dead through the use of nanotechnology and suffering total memory loss, Ray 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 called Chainsaw.
Bloodshot has powers of regeneration, technomancy and meta-morphing, which was made possible through nanites that were injected into his blood.
The film is being written by Eric Heisserer (Arrival) and the studio is looking to develop it as an R-rated film that is being likened to Robocop, Terminator, and Total Recall. It's said to have that classic 1980s tone.
The studio is extremely excited about this movie and they are moving quickly on it. In fact, that plan to start shooting it in July. The movie is being produced by Neal H. Moritz, who produced the Fast and Furious films, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that Diesel ended up being cast in the film.
Source: Deadline
