
RELATED: The Harbinger: Lanzing, Kelly and Rodriguez Look to the Valiant Hero's Future He observed that before Jim Shooter and David Lapham's Faith Herbert, plus-sized superheroes weren't part of the public consciousness but now could be explored in Valiant and DMG's numerous media formats, with all three working together in unison. Mintz felt that many of the Valiant characters were introduced ahead of their time and faced more timely issues in comparison to their more venerable counterparts. It's almost a very natural progression on which characters and storylines and worlds work best in which format." "But I think that's the thing that's propelling Valiant forward as we along: Publishing is involved, TV is involved and film is involved and they're different formats but they're different storytelling formats that's really all they are. "We have publishing, we have a TV roll-out and we have a feature roll-out and it's all very much coming together at the same time that you'll see as we move forward," Mintz teased. I think that's a very natural progression of things as first steps."īeyond the shared cinematic universe and Valiant Entertainment reviving and relaunching many of its properties in comic book form, Mintz confirmed that there are plans to expand DMG's positioning of the characters and properties from film and comics, while also hinting at plans that would unify the Valiant brand across all of its multimedia projects. That was a big part of it, as well as the next ones: Harbinger, Faith, Harbinger Wars and things of that sort. "Very edgy, very strong character, very popular the project came together in a very unique way. In addition to the character's popularity since his debut from creators Kevin VanHook, Don Perlin and Bob Layton in 1992, Mintz saw shared tonal and thematic similarities between Bloodshot and Marvel's Blade. "A couple of defining elements really pushed Bloodshot forward," Mintz observed on why the studio decided to lead off its plans for a shared cinematic universe with the gun-toting superhero. RELATED: The Valiant Made Horror the Center of Bloodshot's Superhero Universe
