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Valiant’s Bloodshot & Harbinger Coming to the Big Screen!

by Karson

Last month Valiant Entertainment announced a nine-figure investment for movie and television development. Today they are announcing a five picture deal with Sony Pictures that will bring the Valiant Universe to the big screen.

Bloodshot and Harbinger will each get two movies before the fifth movie, Harbinger Wars, brings the characters together. Harbinger Wars will be inspired by the Valiant’s 2013 miniseries of the same name where Bloodshot, a nanite-enchanced soldier, clashes with Harbinger and his gang of super-powered (think X-Men) runaways.

Bloodshot will be directed by John Wick’s David Leitch and Chad Stahelski while director considerations for Harbinger are being kept under wraps for now. All five movies will be produced by Valiant’s Dinesh Shamdasani, along with Original Film’s Neal H. Moritz and Toby Jaffe (The Fast and Furious franchise, 21 Jump Street).

Other Valiant properties in development include the action comedy Archer & Armstrong and the supernatural thriller Shadowman.

Bloodshot is set to hit theatres in 2017. Are you excited for more comic book movie crossovers? Let us know in the comments below!

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Valiant Moving Forward With ‘Harbinger’ Film Adaptation

by Shawn Madden

With the film currently stalled at Paramount, Valiant Entertainment Group has chosen to move forward themselves with a film adaptation of Harbinger. The company has brought back Stephen Susco (Texas Chainsaw 3D) to pen the script for the film. This part is great news. The only bad news is that the potential director attached is Brett Ratner, but keep in mind that potential director doesn’t necessarily mean that he actually will be directing the film. If he does get brought on to direct, could Ratner redeem himself here for X-Men: The Last Stand?

 

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The film originally in development over at Paramount, but underlying rights issues in the whole Fox and Warner Bros. lawsuit over Watchmen has stalled the project. Well, instead of going the the studio route, Valiant has “chosen to seek financing and was given a capital infusion from private investment company Cuneo & Co. and partnered with former Marvel CEO and vice chairman Peter Cuneo to relaunch and independently develop their own library of over 1,500 titles.”

 

The series, which was created by Jim Shooter, is a dark and modern twist on the mutant/superhero mythology and follows Pete Stanchek, a teenager- turned-superhero and his battle with a equally powerful industrialist. If you’ve never read an issue of Harbinger, do yourself a favor and check the series out. You won’t be disappointed.

 

Source: Variety

Geekscape Comics: Valiant Teases The Return Of ‘Eternal Warrior’

by Shawn Madden

Starting with the relaunch of XO Manowar earlier in the year, Valiant has been re-introducing their characters and more titles are on their way. One of the currently known returning titles is an updated version of Shadowman. This weekend at Baltimore Comic-Con Valiant is planning a big announcement regarding the “Eternal Warrior” character during their “The Future Of Valiant” panel. Valiant sent the following teaser image to CBR:

 

 

Geekscape Comics: ‘Harbinger #1’ Review

by Shawn Madden

Valiant comics is back and with them they brought the return of one of my favorite titles from the 90’s ‘Harbinger’. To say I was excited about this would be an understatement.

Read minds. Bend steel. Break all the rules. Teenager Pete Stanchek is out of work, on the skids, and – unbeknownst to him – a psionic-powered “harbinger” with the potential to reshape the course of human history. Toyo Harada is a wealthy business magnate, a respected philanthropist and the most powerful harbinger of all – or so he thought. As they forge an uneasy alliance, will Harada offer Pete a chance for redemption ­– or attempt to induct him into a secret network of conspiracy, subversion and control? Pete is about to discover that he’s not alone in the world and, soon, the generation who has nothing will take on the man who has everything.

If you know nothing about the return of Valiant comics… i’ll fill you in just a little. Valiant was one of the major comic companies of the 90’s and early 2000’s but disappeared and returned this year with a couple of titles. These titles are reboots and to be honest this is the only one I picked up or cared about.

I’m not going to go into plot details on this issue. I’m not going to spoil anything. I’m just going to tell you why you should be on your way to shop to pick this issue up after you’re done reading here.

I felt like a ten year old kid again reading this issue. The familiar faces I knew were back (well, not all being that it is the first issue) with an updated feel to them. And before anyone says it…yes I do realize that Peter is wearing an outfit similar to Cole MacGrath from the ‘Infamous’ games. Why? I have no idea. But that’s not important here.

Joshua Dysart’s writing here is great. It is no slow start and we get right into the story from the beginning with bits of back story being slowly introduced throughout the issue. Artist Khari Evans also does a great job of capturing the story that Dysart is telling. The only issue some people may have is if they read it too fast they may think they are missing something but trust me… if it is anything like the 90’s storyline… all will make sense soon enough. It’s a story that will slowly build from the past and the present into something great.

And i’m definitely not one of the “must buy every variant ever” people but the multiple covers for this issue had me walking back and forth decided between which ones I wanted. I was especially happy seeing this variant that was definitely a throwback to the original issue #1. Bravo Valiant on this one.

 

If you’re looking to pick up something new and different this week… I would definitely recommend the first issue of ‘Harbinger’ which is on stands now.