Valiant Gets Funding To Develop Marvel-Style Valiant Comics Movie Universe
By Russ Fischer/March 9, 2015 7:00 am EST
DMG has put eight figures worth of funding into Valiant “to further its efforts in international publishing, film, television, licensing and beyond.” But that’s not all. The press release announcing the deal also trumpets an additional nine-figure investment towards development of film and TV projects featuring Valiant characters such as Bloodshot, Shadowman, and Archer & Armstrong. The goal of the partnership between Valiant and DMG is significant, and they’re not hiding it, as the announcement proclaims the creation of the “largest independent superhero universe.”
Some of these have already been in development, as the press release notes:
In addition to all this development funding and an upcoming push for Valiant characters in the US, DMG, which is based in China, plans a huge Valiant-based licensing push in China to develop the market there for these characters.
Granted, we know nothing about how this will all work out — it depends in the end on the scripts, and the other creatives brought on board to help turn them into movies and TV. But money helps with that, and Valiant has a lot of it right now. The fact that these projects could end up at different studios might be an issue, but if Sony already has Bloodshot, perhaps it wants all of Valiant’s stable.
Here’s the release:
