It sometimes takes 30 years sometimes to get up to a certain level.

There are certain things that Disney wont do because theyre Disneyand there are some things that Valiant is going to do because its authentic to who we are.

All the Marvel movies are great, but Im saying isif theyre network TV, were HBO.

If there was a comic book movie he was going to direct, it would be a Valiant movie, he claims, because the characters relate on that level.

Theres also Faith, a plus-size hero who has the ability of flight and telekinesis and Livewire, a teletechnopath.

In other words, she has the ability to communicate with machines with her mind.

In the books, the characters exist in the same universe across time and space and all of this had a soft-launch with the last big studio movie released theatrically before theaters shuttered: Bloodshot, which stars Vin Diesel as the titular vengeful metamorph soldier who has no memory of his own history.

He has a connection to the Harbinger Foundation, which is headed by the power-hungry Toyo Harada.

The organization studies psiots, a sub-species of humans with psychic powers.

He calls them Harbingers and it makes for a team, each of them straddling the line of hero and villain, which is the foundation of the next Valiant film at Paramount that could be the official launch of its cinematic universe with other titles like Shadowman, Archer Armstrong, Eternal Warrior and X-O Manowar in the works.

How does Valiant beginning navigating waters where it seems like everything is working against you.

Its not like were competing necessarily against Hellboy or The Walking Dead.

Valiant is defined enough that I think we build on previous work from a character-wise perspective.

If somebodys sitting there in a spandex thing with ray beams coming out, we dont need to talk.

There is a point where theres a reverse of that.

Where theres more human than superhuman and people need to lean into it.

Around that time, Tim Burton was developing the first cinematic Batman.

So if you and I were sitting there back then, I think we would say, Put a fork in Marvel, they are a joke.

DC is the future.

All Im saying is, dont put too many nails in that coffin because theres a lot of things that are happening.

When you look at it, the turning point for Marvel really was Blade.

Obviously, DC is from the 30s, Marvel is from the 60s and Valiant is from the 90s.

In that respect, when Valiant was started, its got more of a worldview.

Their problems are closer to our problems.

I think the characters are grayer.

Dan Mintz Dmg