Vin Diesel Talks About Sacrifices in 'Bloodshot' Set Video
Vin Diesel is currently in the middle of shooting his latest comic book movie, and it looks like [...]
Vin Diesel is currently in the middle of shooting his latest comic book movie, and it looks like the project has had a unique impact on him.
Diesel recently shared a video on his Instagram account to kick off the second week of filming Bloodshot, an upcoming film based on the Valiant Comics series of the same name. Diesel touches on a lot in the video - including having to miss his kid's birthday because of the shoot, and why fans should beware people pretending to be him on social media.
Bloodshot will star Diesel as Ray Garrison, a super-soldier created by the secret government organization Project Rising Spirit. Garrison's powers come from "nanites," which enter his bloodstream and give him a variety of powers, including the ability to recover from almost any trauma by consuming protein. The process which gave him his powers also installed a number of implanted identities into Bloodshot's brain, creating a lasting identity crisis.
Joining Diesel in Bloodshot are Toby Kebbell (Kong: Skull Island), Guy Pearce (Iron Man 3), Talulah Riley (Westworld), Alex Hernandez (Hemlock Grove), Eiza Gonzalez (Baby Driver), Sam Heughan (Outlander), and Johannes Haukur Johannesson (Game of Thrones). The film will be directed by Dave Wilson.
For most of his publishing history, Bloodshot has not known his true identity, and has had no life outside of being Bloodshot. The current Bloodshot Reborn series, in which he tries (and mostly fails) to have a normal life, could easily be a major influence on the feature film, as it would ground the character somewhat.
Created in 1992 by Kevin VanHook, Don Perlin, and Bob Layton, Bloodshot's anonymous backstory likely owes something to Wolverine, who was also the product of a clandestine experiment that gave him a healing factor. Wolverine's own past was largely unwritten at the time of Bloodshot's creation. Agonizing about, and searching for, his true self was a major part of Wolverine's story in the' 90s.
When Valiant relaunched in 2012 after about a decade without new comics, Duane Swierczynski reinvented Bloodshot for the new line.
The character made his live-action debut this spring in Ninjak vs. the Valiant Universe, which debuted exclusively on ComicBook.com. In the series, Bloodshot was played by former Mighty Morphin Power Rangers star Jason David Frank.
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Bloodshot will debut on February 21, 2020.