
So yeah, he has a lot of rage about it, a lot of anger.” “I wanted him to be almost of the same ilk, that he has this rage… the reason he’s so angry with everyone and with Ray is that he’s a great soldier, he’s a Navy SEAL, and he’s lost his legs, and he feels like he’s been passed over.

“I based Dalton, the look and the feel of him, on some of the original Bloodshot pictures,” says Heughan, who suggests that his character and Bloodshot are more similar than they may want to admit. While Heughan’s Dalton and Gonzalez’s KT are original to the film, they are loosely inspired by Chainsaw, a relentless RST combat team in the comics. When Ray breaks away from the control of Harting and RST, with the others in pursuit, he enlists the help of Wilfred Wigans (Lamorne Morris), a socially awkward but brilliant hacker who helps Ray in his quest to learn the truth about his past and take control of his life.ĭen of Geek sat down with Heughan, Gonzalez, and Morris recently to discuss their roles in the film, which is based on the long-running Valiant Comics book. Part of Harting’s team at RST are his previous experiments-an enhanced combat unit consisting of Jimmy Dalton ( Outlander’s Sam Heughan), KT (Eiza Gonzalez of Baby Driver) and Tibbs (Alex Hernandez). Emil Harting (Guy Pearce) and his Rising Spirit Technologies.

But Ray is resurrected as a super-soldier thanks to “nanites,” microscopic intelligent machines that have replaced his bloodstream and altered his memories. In the new superhero action film, Bloodshot, Vin Diesel plays Ray Garrison, a soldier who watches his wife die at the hands of brutal terrorists before he himself is killed-or so he thinks.
