Latino Review has broken the news that Matthew Vaughn, hot off KICK-ASS, is trying to scrape together the resources to bring 1990′s Valiant Comic character BLOODSHOT to the big screen.
For those of you who don’t know about BLOODSHOT, don’t feel bad. Bloodshot is one of the hundreds of forgotten “extreme” creations of the variant-cover crazy 1990′s. First appearing in 1994, Bloodshot was a laundry list of pyrite age cliches. Like so many other 90′s creations, he was a cross between Wolverine and The Punisher: a nano-enhanced mob hitman re-animated by evil government scientists, and robbed of the memories of his past. Packing the obligatory high caliber firearms and clad in a vest with no shirt underneath, he blew people away in the name of revenge, justice, and speculator dollars. Not having read any BLOODSHOT, maybe I’m in no position to say whether this movie is a good idea or not, but I do know one thing, Rob Liefeld must kick himself in the butt every morning for not thinking of the name “Bloodshot” first.
Vaughn, according to Latino Review, is in the process of self-funding the film, much as he did with KICK-ASS. If KICK-ASS tanks, this project will probably quickly disappear along with all hopes of an eventual WARRIORS OF PLASM motion picture.
March 30th, 2010 at 8:12 am
Interesting news…really no need for it to be doused in so much haterade, though, especially from someone who is self-admittedly judging a book by it’s chromium cover.
March 30th, 2010 at 8:47 am
dude. that is harsh. just because you bought a stack of youngbloods and brigades (rub the blood covers) that liefeld put out doesnt mean you should trash a book you clearly havent read. bloodshot is a valiant book and they focus on story. bloodshot is actually a pretty good character with some good depth. the second volume is even better. i could really see this working as a film.
March 30th, 2010 at 8:47 am
Every single thing you’ve said about Bloodshot is wrong as it pertains to the original version.
“A nano-enhanced mob hitman re-animated by evil government scientists, and robbed of the memories of his past.”
The original Bloodshot was not revived by government scientists, he was revived by a Japanese corporation owned by a tycoon obsessed with immortality.
The second version was revived by a fictional government agency.
“Packing the obligatory high caliber firearms and clad in a vest with no shirt underneath, he blew people away in the name of revenge, justice, and speculator dollars.”
While the original version, the one with the vest, did in fact set out to take revenge on the people who stole his memories from him and turned him into Bloodshot, his primary motivation was to rediscover who he really was. Weapons-wise, he mainly used a sword and an Eagle pistol. Hardly high-caliber firearms.
The second iteration was armed to the teeth.
“Not having read any BLOODSHOT”
Means that you’re in no position to offer a critique or an opinion of any kind about the character.
Maybe you should educate yourself more about the character before you offer your opinions as fact.
http://wiki.valiantentertainment.com/index.php/Main_Page
March 30th, 2010 at 9:05 am
Wow. Between this & the Godzilla Movie posting, hurm, having a bad day, Kyle?
I just wanted to point out that there is a Bloodshot movie script floating around out there written by Brian Azzarello.
–J.
March 30th, 2010 at 9:16 am
Not so much having a bad day, just that 1990′s comics are just so easy to poke fun at. C’mon BLOODSHOT? Who’s his archnemesis DR. VISINE?
And the vest with no shirt…classic 1990′s…amd this silly red spot on his chest with the white skin…did the creators not realize that makes him look like the Japanese Flag? He’s a mafia guy right?
March 30th, 2010 at 9:23 am
He is a mafia guy transformed into Bloodshot by A JAPANESE COMPANY.
Educate yourself, Kyle, really.
March 30th, 2010 at 9:27 am
There were two characters called Bloodshot in the comics.
The first version (the original) was called Angelo Mortalli, a mafia hitman framed for murdering a rival crime lord who agrees to turn evidence against his former employers, who pay off a corrupt FBI agent to betray Mortalli and sell him off to Hideyoshi Iwatsu, a Japanese tycoon obsessed with immortality who subjects Angelo to an experimental process called Project Rising Spirit, which infuses his body with nanite-rich plasma that turns him into Bloodshot.
The second version was called Raymond Garrison, an undercover government agent working for the DOA, a fictiional government agency that brings him back from the dead using a project dubbed Lazarus, which infuses his body with nanite-rich plasma that transforms him into Bloodshot.
March 30th, 2010 at 10:42 am
Point taken. I will refrain form further denigrating a character as beloved as BLOODSHOT.
March 30th, 2010 at 11:01 am
Also, now that I know that, I can add “Japanese Fetishism” to the list of 1990′s cliches
March 30th, 2010 at 11:36 am
The point here is that an informed opinion is far more valuable than an uninformed one, Kyle.
You can dislike the character all you like, but as a reporter at an entertainment website you should make the effort to try know what it is that you are talking about, other wise you come off as a fanboy with a blog, and there is a thousand other people who already do like.
March 30th, 2010 at 4:12 pm
Didn’t mean to make it seem like you’re being picked on.
Guess you didn’t realize how many Bloodshot fans actually exist.
–J.
March 31st, 2010 at 6:05 am
So you won’t be going to see this then, ha ha.
Also Bloodshot didn’t have a variant chromium cover… chromium was the only way to go!
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