{"id":13571,"date":"2016-09-27T09:11:01","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T16:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/?p=13571"},"modified":"2016-09-27T09:11:01","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T16:11:01","slug":"sony-moves-up-plans-for-harbinger-as-1st-movie-in-valiant-comics-cinematic-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/sony-moves-up-plans-for-harbinger-as-1st-movie-in-valiant-comics-cinematic-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony Moves Up Plans for \u2018Harbinger\u2019 as 1st Movie in Valiant Comics Cinematic Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sony is moving forward on its five-film plan for joint film franchises based on the Valiant comic books \u201cHarbinger\u201d and \u201cBloodshot,\u201d which are then set to culminate in a \u201cHarbinger Wars\u201d crossover event film.<\/p>\n

Within the last month, Sony has preemptively renewed its option on \u201cHarbinger\u201d \u2014 a comic following a teenage runaway Peter Stanchek with massive telekinetic powers \u2014 for a sum in the high six figures and is moving to package the pictures quickly.<\/p>\n

The previously announced \u201cBloodshot\u201d \u2014 about a mortally wounded soldier resurrected with cutting-edge nanotechnology and charged with rounding up \u201charbingers\u201d like Stanchek \u2014 is now seen as the second film in the series.<\/p>\n

The character would be introduced as the villain in franchise kickoff \u201cHarbinger,\u201d an individual with knowledge of the project said, with \u201cBloodshot\u201d following a year later.<\/p>\n

The plot for the \u201cHarbinger\u201d screenplay by writer Eric Heisserer (\u201cArrival, \u201cLights Out\u201d) is being kept under wraps but it\u2019s believed to follow Valiant\u2019s 2012 volume of the \u201cBloodshot\u201d series.<\/p>\n

Additionally, the move to bump \u201cHarbinger\u201d up in the release order is giving Sony ample opportunity to develop and position additional spin-offs from the \u201cHarbinger\u201d and \u201cBloodshot\u201d universes.<\/p>\n

Attention is now being given to multiple characters from the comics, including the HARD Corps, Livewire, Generation Zero, and, most notably, Faith, who generated a ton of worldwide media attention in the comics space this year and features prominently in the Harbinger script.<\/p>\n

Neal Moritz will produce through his Original Film banner with Dinesh Shamdasani on behalf of Valiant Entertainment.<\/p>\n

Valiant\u2019s library is truly one of the great and as-yet untapped wells of intellectual property anywhere in Hollywood. The publisher\u2019s bench of more than 2,000 superhero characters (with lifetime sales of more than 80 million copies) makes it the third largest library of superheroes behind Marvel and DC \u2014 and the only one not currently owned by major conglomerate.<\/p>\n

And unlike its rivals, Valiant has fostered a long and well-earned reputation in the comics world for producing quality storytelling that transcends the norms of the superhero genre. Case in point: This summer, Valiant earned an unprecedented 50 nominations at the Harvey Awards, one of the industry\u2019s highest honors.<\/p>\n

\u201cHarbinger,\u201d in particular, is rife with potential for a more grounded and modern take on the genre. In the comic, created by former Marvel Editor-in-Chief Jim Shooter and legendary comics artist David Lapham, Stanchek is recruited by fellow psychic Toyo Harada \u2014 a philanthropic billionaire who using his wealth to secretly finance an underground organization called the Harbinger Foundation to manipulate world affairs.<\/p>\n

Source: Sony Moves Up Plans for \u2018Harbinger\u2019 as 1st Movie in Valiant Comics Cinematic Universe (Exclusive)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sony is moving forward on its five-film plan for joint film franchises based on the Valiant comic books \u201cHarbinger\u201d and \u201cBloodshot,\u201d which are then set to culminate in a \u201cHarbinger Wars\u201d crossover event film. Within the last month, Sony has preemptively renewed its option on \u201cHarbinger\u201d \u2014 a comic following a teenage runaway Peter Stanchek […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1opIU-3wT","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10352,"url":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/lemire-and-nguyens-descender-optioned-by-sony\/","url_meta":{"origin":13571,"position":0},"title":"Lemire And Nguyen’s Descender Optioned By Sony","author":"Forbidden Panel","date":"February 1, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"A month before the first issue is published and Sony Pictures has already acquired the film rights to Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen\u2019s upcoming Image comic Descender.\u00a0Lemire is the creator of the acclaimed graphic novels Sweet Tooth and\u00a0Essex County\u00a0as well as having written for Marvel, DC, Dark Horse and Valiant.\u00a0Nguyen\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "News"","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Descender11-600x918.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Descender11-600x918.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Descender11-600x918.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":16749,"url":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/sony-adapting-the-kaiju-score-to-film\/","url_meta":{"origin":13571,"position":1},"title":"Sony Adapting “The Kaiju Score” To Film","author":"Forbidden Panel","date":"August 25, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Sony Pictures has acquired the film rights to AfterShock Comics\u2019 new title \u201cThe Kaiju Score\u201d with plans to adapt it into a feature film to be co-produced with Escape Artists. 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