Sony and Valiant comics agree to a 5 picture Deal starting with BloodShot and Harbinger

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Acccording to The Hollywood Reporter, Valiant Entertainment has signed a five-picture deal with Sony Pictures to make five films based on their comic book properties Bloodshot and Harbinger. Each property will get two films as early as 2017, culminating with a crossover movie titled Harbinger Wars based on the comic book crossover. The acting producers will be Valiant Entertainment's Dinesh Shamdasani, Original Films' Neal H. Moritz and Toby Jaffe, and Sony's Andrea Giannetti.

For 2017's Bloodshot, Sony has secured John Wick directors David Leitch and Chad Stahelski, with an already-written screenplay by Kick-Ass 2's Jeff Wadlow and The Thing's Eric Heisserer. Matthew Vaughn and Jason Kothari are on-board as executive producers.

The Harbinger movie as no directors attached just yet, but Bloodshot co-writer Eric Heisserer is writing the screenplay. This comes on the heels of the March announcement that Valiant had secured nine-figure funding from DMG Entertainmnt for feature and TV project development. Valiant has previously announced movie projects for Archer & Armstrong and Shadowman.

source: Newsarama and The Hollywood reporter