Valiant Trailer 2005

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OnMonday, the trailer for Sony Pictures' Bloodshot premiered, revealing Vin Diesel as the titular superhero in what's likely to be the first of several comic book movies based in the world of Valiant Comics. While one of the comic book publisher's most successful characters, Bloodshot and the other heroes and villains of the Valiant Comics shared universe don't have quite the name recognition of the Marvel Cinematic Universe or DC Comics movies. So who is Bloodshot?

Like Steve Rogers, Bloodshot was created as part of a U.S. military supersoldier program, though his origins are considerably darker. Rather than becoming a Nazi-punching symbol for American might abroad, Bloodshot was a mind-controlled assassin, repeatedly implanted with new memories that made each mission personal for him. This origin story is explained well in the first trailer for Bloodshot, though it's not clear yet whether the Vin Diesel version of the character will be sent against the psychic "psiots" that are his primary targets in the Valiant Comics.

The advanced nanites filling Bloodshot's veins make him incredibly powerful, with super strength and the ability to heal from almost any injury, much like Wolverine or Deadpool (though Bloodshot needs to consume protein). He also can interface with machinery and even alter his mass, changing his size.

After escaping Projecting Rising Spirit, Bloodshot searches for his true identity, taking bloody revenge on the organization who created him and mowing down anyone who gets in his way. On IMDb, Vin Diesel is credited as Bloodshot and Ray Garrison, an identity given him by his handlers, which he continues to identify with after escaping and setting out on his own. He has had other plausible identities, including as mob hitman named Angelo Mortalli, but ultimately Bloodshot can't be certain who he once was.

But there's more to Bloodshot than his identity and powers. He's part of a world of superheroes, including X-O Manowar, Archer & Armstrong and the Renegades. Combining traits of Thor, Green Arrow, the X-Men and more, the Valiant Comics universe is a more cohesive, realistic and gritty take on many of the superhero types found in the sprawling Marvel and DC universes.

Valiant Entertainment is owned by DMG Entertainment, a Chinese media company with close ties to the Chinese film market. Beginning in 2015, DMG has invested hundreds of millions to develop and film Valiant comic book adaptations, building a shared universe to take on the domineering MCU. Both Sony Pictures and Paramount have additional Valiant Entertainment comic book movies in the works, which are likely to interconnect with Bloodshot.

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Vin Diesel plays a former marine-turned biotech enhanced superhero in the trailer for Bloodshot. Although it's not as well known as Marvel or DC outside of the comic book fan community, Valiant Comics has made a name for itself over the years with IPs like Harbinger and Ninjak. The publisher is now in the process of turning its titles into TV shows, web series, and movies, including next year's Bloodshot.

Adapted for the screen by writers Eric Heisserer (Arrival, Bird Box) and Jeff Wadlow (Kick-Ass 2, Truth or Dare), Bloodshot marks the directing debut for VFX supervisor Dave Wilson (Avengers: Age of Ultron), and has the potential to launch an entire Sony-Valiant cinematic universe that features most of the publisher's brands, save for Harbinger (which only just moved to Paramount in September). So, in order to improve its odds of success, the studio is getting the movie's marketing up and running in time for the beginning of the 2019 fall holiday season.

The trailer introduces Diesel as Ray Garrison, a soldier who was killed alongside his wife, Gina (Talulah Riley), only to be resurrected and enhanced with super-strength and super-healing through nanotechnology by the RST corporation. However, as this Bloodshot preview is quick to establish, Ray's memories are not only fragmented, they're also being intentionally altered by RST to fool him into believing he's hunting the people responsible for his and his wife's death. In these regards, both the movie and the Bloodshot character continue to bring RoboCop to mind, as well as superheroes or antiheroes with similar backstories and/or powers, like Wolverine and The Punisher. Bloodshot also appears to be going for a violent, possibly R-rated tone along the lines of those properties.

For these reasons, there's a fair chance the Bloodshot movie will end up feeling derivative of recent superhero movies and TV series, rather than a fresh addition to the genre. The trailer further suggests the film is a clear-cut origin story, which probably won't hep its efforts in that sense. At the same time, it looks pretty good, visually-speaking, and seems to have benefited from Wilson's effects knowledge. Likewise, Wadlow and Heisserer compliment one another as writers and may prove successful in combining thrills with brains in their Bloodshot script.

Anno 117: Pax Romana's reveal trailer opens with a dignified white-haired crier in a toga making a grand proclamation... to a vast rocky plain, empty except for a few grazing goats and distant trees. Eagle-eyed fans might be able to spot more than that, however; a closer look reveals references to past Anno games, as well as a few hints at what's to come in Anno 117: Pax Romana.

The crest on the crier's shoulder is a new symbol meant to represent not just Anno 117: Pax Romana, but the Anno series going forward. "We tried to create something that could last," says Reinher. "We were searching for a timeless logo."

The angular lines of the "A" are meant to evoke strategy, construction, and creation, like a classical edifice with two pillars leaning together, Reinher says. "Breaking it down to just this form of an 'A,' which looks almost like a building, but also maybe like an ancient tool, gives us a symbol we can play around with outside the game, to talk about and visualize the game."

Below the Anno crest, you can see another symbol (repeated down the trim of the crier's toga as seen above), this one resembling a sunburst. This is the seal of the Emperor, who players - as Governors - will answer to during Anno 117's campaign. The Emperor is there in part to give players a clear role as part of a system (rather than being the one at the top of it), and will sometimes issue orders or ask players to make decisions that will provoke reactions from the world around them, says Reinher.

Take a close look at the wooden platform the crier stands on, and you'll see the year 117 represented in Roman numerals as CXVII. While this particular year is a minor Easter egg in itself (in that its numerals, like those of all other Anno titles, add up to nine), it was chosen in part because it sets the game squarely at the height of the Roman Empire, during the era known as the Pax Romana.

"When you think about this era, it checks all the boxes for an Anno game," says Reinher. "It's a somewhat stable phase of almost 200 years. The Roman Empire was established, so there were no more big conquests. There were some smaller clashes, of course, but this also means we have the biggest expansion of the Roman Empire."

"It was very important for us to include some hidden messages for fans, and to celebrate our legacy," says Reinher. We thought it was a lovely touch to hide all the other Anno games somewhere there, and we combined it with the two symbols that we have for the two provinces that we will have at launch."

In the past, says Reinher, Anno's approach has been to give players a "main" province and a supporting province, but this is something the developers want to change. From the outset, players will be able to choose whether to found their first province in Roman Latium or Celtic Albion, and each will present different opportunities and challenges for players to overcome. Players will, for example, need to make decisions about whether to spread Roman culture or embrace Celtic traditions, which Reinher says will be part of the balancing act of keeping a province stable.

When the trailer's setting shifts to an apparently mosquito-infested wetland (meant to represent one of Albion's biomes), a gray bovine wandering through the background moos indignantly. While the realities of modern biology mean this is really just an ox, it's standing in for something greater: the aurochs, a now-extinct species considered the ancestors of modern cattle.