10 Upcoming Comic Book Movies That Have Nothing To Do With Marvel Or DC

10. Bloodshot

One of the most surprising comeback stories in the recent history of comics is the return of Valiant. A mostly-forgotten relic of the late eighties/early nineties boom for non-Marvel or DC comics, they went bust along with their parent company, the video game publishers Acclaim, some time in the early noughties. Their characters were fondly remembered by few. Then, in 2012, Valiant Entertainment suddenly started publishing books again. And they were pretty good, too: Quantum And Woody was revealed to have been a ridiculously fun, tongue-in-cheek superhero book; Harbringer a worthy X-Men successor; and Bloodshot turned out to be a nineties badass gun-toting anti-hero wreck worth saving. The upturn in fortunes has lead to Sony buying the rights to both Harbringer and Bloodshot, with the latter's feature debut to be directed by John Wick's David Leitch and executive produced by Matthew Vaughan. No news on casting or a release date yet, but crazy action scenes involving an amnesiac soldier who can heal instantly thanks to nanomachines in his blood sounds like a must-watch.
 
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