Sony To Kick Off New Valiant Comics Cinematic Universe

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Get ready Marvel and DC, there’s a new superhero cinematic universe coming to town with Sony preparing a five-film plan for a film franchise based on the Valiant Comic Books.

According to The Wrap, the two comics Sony are looking at are “Harbinger” and “Bloodshot” with it culminating in a “Harbinger Wars” crossover event.

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The first film to come out from this new franchise will be Harbinger – the comic follows a teenage runaway Peter Stanchek who has massive telekinetic powers – and this will be followed up a year later by Bloodshot – follows a mortally wounded soldier resurrected with cutting edge nanotechnology and charged with rounding up harbingers like Stanchek.

Bloodshot will also be introduced as the villain in the cinematic universe.

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The plot for the Harbinger film is being kept quiet, but the movie has already got Eric Heisserer (Arrival, Lights Out) penning the screenplay.

The reason why they’ve moved the Harbinger movie forward is so Sony can have time to make spin-offs from this universe and they’ll include HARD Corps, Livewire, Generation Zero, and most importantly, Faith.

I know plenty of people will be reading this and will have no clue what the hell Valiant comics, Harbinger, Bloodshot and the other characters I’ve just mention above are. Honestly, I don’t know a lot about these comics.

However, what I do know is Valiant comic have the third biggest library of superheroes (behind DC and Marvel) with over 2,000 and it’s surprising a major Hollywood studio didn’t pick up this property sooner and it makes sense Sony wanted this more than the others as they’re the only studio without a major cinematic universe.

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What’s also brilliant about this publisher is they earned a brilliant reputation in the comic world for their original, high-quality storytelling and they’re regarded as one of the best.

The stories look set to please casual audiences, take Harbinger, for example, has the potential to be more grounded and have a modern take on the genre. In the comics, a philanthropic billionaire who’s using his wealth to secretly finance an underground organisation called the Harbinger Foundation to manipulate world affairs.

Expect to see the Harbinger Foundation being used as the device to make these spin-offs.