Vin Diesel will play a live-action superhero for the first time in Dave Wilson’s Bloodshot, and The Wrap reports tonight that Toby Kebbell (Kong: Skull Island) is also on board.
Kebbell will play the role of Axe.
Eiza Gonzalez, Michael Sheen, Talulah Riley, Alex Hernandez and Sam Heughan also star.
“Bloodshot” is about a mortally wounded soldier resurrected with cutting-edge nanotechnology and tasked with rounding up super-powered outcasts known as “harbingers.”
“Bloodshot” was created for Valiant Comics by Kevin Van Hook, Don Perlin and Bob Layton in 1992. It ran for 110 issues with more than 7.5 million copies sold. Valiant’s bench of more than 2,000 superhero characters (with sales of more than 81 million copies) makes it the third-largest library of superheroes behind Marvel and DC — and the only one not owned by a major conglomerate.
