![]() For a while, Bloodshot toys with not just interesting conceptual ideas (albeit familiar ones to sci-fi fans) but with a sort of meta playfulness that allows it to poke gentle fun at its own genre before settling tediously back into those tired tropes. That gives this first Valiant Comics adaptation both a disadvantage and an opportunity: since the vast majority of the public has no idea who Bloodshot is, the filmmakers (which include former Valiant CEO Dinesh Shamdasani as a producer) don’t have to worry about slavishly following a storyline or canon that both casual and diehard fans may know by heart. Yet while various incarnations of Valiant have been around for better than 30 years, its characters and their backstories have not quite entered the zeitgeist like titans such as Superman, Batman, and Spider-Man. With enhanced strength, speed, durability and healing powers, Garrison is all but indestructible–yet his memories are the one thing he cannot seem to retrieve.īut Bloodshot does, of course, have a history as one of the flagship titles of Valiant Comics, a long independent publisher that created its own universe of heroes and villains as counter-programming for those tired of the usual DC and Marvel suspects. ![]() ![]() Garrison is a soldier whose shattered body has been restored to life by Harting via microscopic robots called “nanites” that all but replaced Garrison’s blood. Emil Harting says to Ray Garrison ( Vin Diesel), the titular hero of director David S.F. “You don’t have to have a history to have a future,” Guy Pearce’s Dr.
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