

"If the nanites are clustering, if you're being shot at and nanites are rushing all over your body to fix your vital organs, think of it as a computer system that is multitasking. He describes the nanites as like a computer, which can overheat when it multitasks. "The nanites are 'overclocking' all of your body's functions."

"Obviously, everything has to revolve around the nanites," Wilson says. For Inverse, Wilson unpacked the science of how Bloodshot really came alive.įirst, there are Ray Garrison's nanites that run in his blood. While the visual looks cool, especially to fans of the comics, it doesn't have an explicit reason beyond the nanites being "overclocked" in his system. Vin Diesel and Dave Wilson, on the set of 'Bloodshot.' Sony Picturesĭuring the movie's final battle, however, Ray Garrison's skin turns pale, a ghostly white tint with a blue hue. Throughout the film, Garrison looks normal - except he can punch through concrete and heal from even the most fatal wounds in seconds. Marine named Ray Garrison whose blood is replaced with a billion microscopic nano-machines, called "nanites," which gives him superpowers.

In the new movie Bloodshot, Vin Diesel stars as a U.S. I have to have a reason."Īnd a reason Wilson found. "I can't just put a red dot on his chest. "That's where the nerd in me really manifested," Wilson told Inverse last October at New York Comic Con. He looks as if the Pale Rider of the apocalypse traded their steed for a ton of guns.īut why does Bloodshot look like that? In the first feature film adaptation of Valiant Comics starring Vin Diesel, director Dave Wilson let his geek flag fly high when he discovered a sound scenario that explains how a person's skin really could turn the color of snow.

With ghostly white skin, crimson eyes, and a blood red circle on his chest, the enhanced super soldier is a striking, eerie presence in the eyes of his enemies. Bloodshot is a superhero unlike so many others.
