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EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures has closed a deal to acquire Bloodshot, the Valiant Comics series. The deal came out of a spec script written by Jeff Wadlow, who is being paid $450,000 against $1 million, I hear. Neal Moritz will produce through his Original Film Banner along with Jason Kothari and Dinesh Shamdasani for Valiant Entertainment.
Bloodshot originated in Valiant Comics form in 1992 and appeared in over 70 issues, becoming the cornerstone of the Valiant Universe. The protagonist is Angelo Mortalli, a ruthless killer for the mob who is set up by the family and framed for a murder. He instead goes into Witness Protection, but is betrayed by an FBI agent guarding him, kidnapped and forcibly subjected to an experimental program in which his body is injected with microscopic computers called nanites. They erase his brain and rebuild it and his body to be a weapon with superhuman strength and healing powers. Bloodshot escapes his makers, and though he isn’t his old self, he tries to figure out who he was. Things get bad for everybody who betrayed him. The project had been rumored as a possible directing vehicle for Matthew Vaughn, but he isn’t part of this equation.
The WME-repped Wadlow got this through his own entrepreneurial spunk. He loved the comic, and made an agreement with Valiant and Original Film to write it on spec. They showed it to Sony, where Moritz has his deal. The studio bought it.
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blah, blah, blah… and then he orders a pizza, figures out it’s not the one he wanted and proceeds to time travel back to 1971 to kill the asshole pizza guy who screwed up his order. But when he does, he lands in an alternate reality and realizes he is now the pizza delivery guy, and on, and on, and on…
Sony can do better than this.
Hey, congrats to this guy for taking a shot — that paid off. It’s not like Sony bought this in the room. There’s already a script.
Classic.
With a name like that, I’m guessing an R rating is in the cards?
Injected with nanites, blah, blah, blah. I’m bored with this comic book shit. When will it end?
It will end when films like The Artist start grossing over $500 million worldwide.
You mean stuff like Road to Perdition, A History of Violence and Ghost World you you say “This comic book shit,” right?
I don’t remember any of my friends liking Bloodshot. Or Valiant Comics.
Actually, after their “Deathmate” crossover with Image Comics, which tricked me into spending my 6th grade allowance on garbage comics, I actively didn’t like Valiant’s characters.
Let’s see if a good movie can come out of this.
If you hated Deathmate, it wasn’t Valiant that you hated. It was Image. Valiant 1992 were the best books on the market, far better than Image, Marvel, or DC.
Scrape the bottom of the barrel, much? There are so many better properties out there (like Black Metal), that it makes me think I should make a terrible comic so it’ll go straight to the line before the good stuff…
Remember when comics used to be cool… what the fuck happened?
Alright! I was hoping that somebody would make a movie about superheroes!
Dark Horse has the same book The Machine. Published about 10 yes ago. Set up with LG but nothing happened.
Bloodshot is from 20 years ago.
I thought they were already rebooting ROBOCOP!
am sick to death of all the empty nerd shit that Hollywood keeps turning into terrible movies
do writers read anything but comic books now?
Only the cool kids make and watch movies. Sit down and shut it, nerds. NERDS!!!
But only the movies made for nerds make money. Avengers, anyone? How about Transformers? Star Trek, maybe?
So Wolverine with guns but more convoluted and less cool? Got it.
Bloodshot is one of the best characters in the Valiant library. People forget that Valiant sold hundreds of thousands of copies of their books because of great characters and because they were taking chances Marvel and DC weren’t at the end of the day. This is a great property if done right. Congrats to Valiant on bringing their business back in a big way this year.
Bloodshot is one of the best comic characters from the 90′s with a unique backstory that was ahead of it’s time. Can’t wait for the film!
Bloodshot has needed a Movie for 20 Years! Great Character and Great news to hear he’ll be shootin’ up baddies on The Big Screen! WEWT!
Bunch of haters on here, everyone seems to forget Bloodshot competing sale for sale with a little book called “Death of Superman”. Bloodshot is one of the most beloved characters in comics, and is PERFECT for a big screen adaptation! CAN’T WAIT!
Bloodshot was excellent in its day. The character was innovative with nanites (re: microscopic computers) in his bloodstream. He’s an amalgamation of James Bond/Missing Impossible action spy characters with Robocop/Terminator technological attributes. I highly recommend reading the old Valiant series; the Acclaim series that followed was almost as good. The charater was also well designed with an iconic Barry Windsor-Smith cover on the first issue.
I love hearing stories like this.
Congratulations to Jeff Wadlow for going balls out and writing the spec.
ALL WRITERS should be writing spec scripts, even when they’re getting paid to do other scripts, instead of sitting around and wining about not being paid for writing.
If you’re a writer, you write, it’s as simple as that, regardless of what you’re getting.
Awww yeah…Jeff Wadlow is a true inspiration!
Bloodshot is the kind of character that is perfect for a movie.
can’t wait to see it!
Bloodshot was a great comic in its day, as were most of the other Valiant comics like X-O Manowar, Harbinger, and several others. I’m overjoyed to hear that a new Valiant Entertainment company is bringing back new Valiant comics starting this May and hopefully with this movie announcement, news of a new Bloodshot ongoing series won’t be far behind. Not to mention possibilities of other Valiant characters getting movies in the future?! Bring on X-O! Bring on Eternal Warrior! Bring on Harbinger!
As for this movie being ‘comic-booky’, it would be one of the least comic-book like properties of Valiant if done right. Could be really dark and intense and realistic. Former mafia hitman turned into a science experiment trying to recover his past and get revenge? Sounds cool to me!
Anyone who bashes Bloodshot is obviously a moron and never actually read ANY Valiant Comics in the early 90s. If done PROPERLY this movie could lead to a whole expansive Valiant Movie Universe, which would be awesome! Future movies and tie ins could be made with Eternal Warrior, ShadowMan, Ninjak, X-O Manowar, Harbinger Archer & Armstrong and so many others!
I’ve been waiting 17 years for this reboot. Bring it on!
And while we wait to see if Angelo Mortalli finds his soul, it’s obvious Jim Shooter doesn’t have one. Valiant Entertainment brought him back to head things up and then he backstabbed them by jumping to Dark Horse and helping them steal the Magnus, Solar and Turok titles from Random House. What a self-dealing a-hole.
Jim Shooter’s a great writer and editor but he’s not much of a human being.