'Game of Thrones' Player Johannes Haukur Johannesson Joins Vin Diesel'due south 'Bloodshot' (Exclusive)
Toby Kebbell, Michael Sheen, Eiza González, and Sam Heughan will also appear in superhero moving-picture show
Johannes Haukur Johannesson will bring together Vin Diesel fuel in "Bittersweet" for Sony Pictures, TheWrap has exclusively learned.
Aside from Diesel, who is starring in the film, Johannesson, who played Lem in the sixth season of "Game of Thrones," joins the likes of Toby Kebbell, Michael Sheen, Eiza González, Talulah Riley, Alex Hernandez and "Outlander's" Sam Heughan for the projection. Johannesson will play a villain in the film.
The studio volition offset master photography in July on the first moving picture to feature Diesel in a live-action superhero role. The film will besides reunite Diesel with "Fast and Furious" mega-producer Neal Moritz. This is the offset time that Moritz and Diesel have worked together outside of the "Fast and Furious" franchise. Dan Mintz, founder of DMG Amusement is the executive producer. DMG recently acquired the entirety of Valiant Amusement's IP.
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Dave Wilson, who is "Deadpool" manager Tim Miller's partner at Blur Studios, is attached to direct.
"Bloodshot" is about a mortally wounded soldier resurrected with cutting-edge nanotechnology, tasked with rounding upwardly super-powered outcasts known every bit "harbingers." The "Bloodshot" comic series was created by Kevin Van Claw, Don Perlin and Bob Layton in 1992.
Over its comic-volume run, "Bloodshot" amassed 110 issues with more than seven.v one thousand thousand copies sold via publisher Valiant. Valiant'due south library represents an untapped well of intellectual property: Its bench has more than than 2,000 superhero characters (with lifetime sales of more than than 80 million copies), making it the tertiary largest library of superheroes behind Marvel and DC — and the only one not currently owned by a major conglomerate. Valiant's comic books are the best-reviewed books over the past five years; "Bloodshot" in item has been honored with numerous critics' awards.
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According to insiders, Sony and Wilson programme to follow in the footsteps of the recent success of "Logan" and "Deadpool" with an R-rated have on the comic adaptation that will exist tonally and aesthetically influenced by high-concept, sci-fi blockbusters of the late 1980s, including "Robocop," "Terminator" and "Total Recall."
"Bittersweet" marks a return to Diesel's activity genre roots, and the beginning time he has played a comic book superhero. He launched to international fame every bit a hard-hitting action star in "xXx" and "Pitch Blackness" before locking into "The Fast and the Furious" series. Diesel was as well 2017'south top-grossing player at the box function. Diesel topped the list with $1.vi billion in global ticketing receipts, thanks to the success of "xXx: The Return of Xander Cage" and "Fate of the Furious."
Johannes will next exist seen in the pb role of "Tau" in Albert Hughes' "Blastoff" which is the first film from Jeff Robinov's Studio 8 shingle with Sony, to exist released in theaters worldwide on August 17th. Johannes will and then be seen in the serial regular part of Steinar in the Netflix series "The Innocents," which premieres on August 24. Along with recurring on "Game of Thrones," Johannes' recent credits include David Leitch'southward "Diminutive Blonde" contrary Charlize Theron and James McAvoy, and "The Concluding Kingdom" on Netflix.
Johannes is repped by Blood-red Media, Independent Talent Grouping (UK), and attorney Lev Ginsburg.
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Summer 2018 is bringing a wealth of promising movies to the cineplex. TheWrap picked some of the buzziest that nosotros're dying to run into.
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May 4: "Overboard"
A remake of the 1987 original starring Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell, 2018's "Overboard" features Anna Faris and Eugenio Derbez in reversed roles. Bob Fisher and Rob Greenberg directed.
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May 4: "Tully"
The Charlize Theron-starrer was the secret screening at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and has been buzzy since. Mackenzie Davis, Ron Livingston and Mark Duplass as well star.
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May 11: "Life of the Party"
Melissa McCarthy stars every bit Deanna, who goes back to college after her husband unexpectedly leaves her. Maya Rudolph and Gillian Jacobs are sure to add a further level of hilarity to the picture show, which she co-wrote with her husband, Ben Falcone (who also directs).
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May eighteen: "Deadpool 2"
The first "Deadpool" broke records and received stellar reviews, and so nosotros rellycan't await for a sequel starring Josh Brolin as time-traveling mutant Cable. Oh, and Peter, who is there to help because he "saw the advertizement."
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May 25: "Solo: A Star Wars Story"
Who isn't excited for some other "Star Wars" picture, this time focusing on the young Han Solo? The stellar cast includes Alden Ehrenreich, Woody Harrelson, Donald Glover and Emilia Clarke. And the buzz about managing director switchups and reshoots has raised the marvel level.
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June viii: "Sea's viii"
Some of our favorite actresses are reprising one of our favorite franchises. The trailers have been cracking, and excitement for the picture is on the ascent. Bring it on, Sandy!
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June 8: "Hotel Artemis"
A movie virtually a hospital that'south simply open for the biggest and baddest criminals? Count u.s.a. in! Plus, the film boasts Jodie Foster, Sofia Boutella, Dave Bautista, Jeff Goldblum, Jenny Slate and Sterling K. Brown.
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June 8: "Won't You Be My Neighbour?"
For fans of the iconic children'due south Television host Fred Rogers, this documentary volition be a trip downwardly memory lane.
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June 8: "Hereditary"
"Hereditary" has been dubbed one of the scariest movies of all fourth dimension and was a articulate breakout from the Sundance Film Festival. And specially after the success of "A Quiet Place," it's clear Hollywood has an ambition for horror flicks.
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June 15: "Superfly"
"grown-ish" star Trevor Jackson stars in an update of the '70s blaxploitation film about a young Harlem drug-dealer, this time set in Atlanta amongst the thriving hip-hop scene.
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June fifteen: "The Incredibles 2"
Fans have been waiting 14 years for the follow-up to the 2004 original. And footage at this twelvemonth'south CinemaCon got attendees fifty-fifty more amped.
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June 22: "Under the Silverish Lake"
Andrew Garfield returns in this crime thriller written and directed by David Robert Mitchell. His graphic symbol becomes obsessed with a murder and a kidnapping. Jimmi Simpson, Riley Keough and Topher Grace as well star.
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June 22: "Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom"
The last picture show in the dino-franchise is the quaternary-highest grossing movie of all time worldwide. And Chris Pratt looks to have his second blockbuster this year, later "Avengers: Infinity War."
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June 29: "Sicario: 24-hour interval of the Soldado"
Denis Villeneuve hands the directing reins to Stefano Sellima in this new crime thriller -- which shifts the focus to Benicio del Toro'south former hole-and-corner agent in the drug wars along the U.S.-Mexico edge.
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July 4: "The Outset Purge"
Don't we all desire to know how the tradition of The Purge began? This movie looks terrifying and volition make yous want to look your doors at dark.
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July 6: "Ant-Man and the Wasp"
Let's be honest -- we're excited for any Marvel movie. Plus, early CinemaCon footage promised Evangeline Lilly will dominate the motion picture and nosotros really want to know why Paul Rudd's hero was MIA during "Infinity War."
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July vi: "Sorry to Carp Y'all"
Boots Riley'southward sci-fi comedy sports a stellar bandage including Tessa Thompson, Armie Hammer, Patton Oswalt, Lakeith Stanfield, Terry Crews, Steven Yeun and Omari Hardwick -- and information technology'southward been on many people's radar since Sundance.
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July xiii: "Puzzle"
Kelly Macdonald shines in a rare leading role in this remake of an Argentine film about a competitive jigsaw puzzler. Like other films on this listing, "Puzzle" too debuted at Sundance earlier this year to rave reviews.
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July 20: "Blindspotting"
Daveed Diggs' racial drama was all anyone was talking about at Sundance earlier this year, with multiple studios embroiled in a bidding war for information technology until it went to Lionsgate.
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July 27: "Mission: Impossible -- Fallout"
Photos and news almost Tom Cruise doing crazy stunts for "Fallout" have been appearing everywhere for a while -- production was halted for months after he broke his ankle on the shoot. Plus, nosotros were treated to Henry Cavill's CGI'd mustache in "Justice League" because of this movie, so there'due south a lot going for information technology.
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Aug. iii: "The Spy Who Dumped Me"
Who doesn't want to see Mila Kunis back in a comedy alongside one of the funniest women live, Kate McKinnon?
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Aug. 3: "The Miseducation of Cameron Postal service"
Chloe Grace Moretz stars in the motion-picture show that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this twelvemonth, about a teenage girl forced into gay conversion therapy by her guardians.
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Aug. ten: "BlacKkKlansman"
Hashemite kingdom of jordan Peele, Jason Blum and Fasten Lee are teaming up for "BlacKkKlansman," a pic that stars John David Washington every bit real-life Colorado Springs detective Ron Stallworth, the first African-American police officer who went undercover to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.
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Aug. 17: "Crazy Rich Asians"
Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Michelle Yeoh, Gemma Chan and Ken Jeong star in an adaptation of Kevin Kwan's best-selling 2013 novel nearly a Chinese-American professor who joins her boyfriend for a wedding in high-gild Singapore.
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Aug. 17: "The Happytime Murders"
The moving picture follows the puppet cast of a '80s TV evidence that gets murdered one by one. Tell us that doesn't sound enticing. Plus, the motion-picture show sports a great cast -- Elizabeth Banks, Melissa McCarthy, Joel McHale, Maya Rudolph and Jimmy O. Yang.
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