One of the many films to fall victim to Covid-19 this year was Sony Pictures Bloodshot. Starring Vin Diesel, the film landed in cinemas literally as the world went in to hiding and quickly found itself pushed to PVOD.
But now, in a new interview with CBR, DMG Entertainment creative head and filmmaker Dan Mintz has confirmed plans to develop a sequel.
Sony’s adaptation of the Valiant Entertainment comic series had little time to ignite the box office, leaving theatres with only $33.4M (worldwide) in the bank. Based on a $45M production budget it’s not hard to argue as to why the studio would look to make more films in this world.
“I think [Bloodshot] was very successful in that respect, a lot of people saw it and it did very well in the post-release rollout but you can’t use the same evaluation process, pre-COVID, to this,” Mintz told CBR. “[Are] Vin Diesel and all those people going to still continue? Yes, because it did so well and the response to it has been so well, it’s just that the response has been in a non-transparent environment, as opposed to a transparent environment like box office numbers.”
Bloodshot was directed by Dave Wilson from a script by Eric Heisserer and Jeff Wadlow, the film stars Vin Diesel, Guy Pearce and Toby Kebbell.
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