Valiant’s Plus-Size Superhero Faith Joins Bloodshot in Development at Sony

Valiant Comics has just secured yet another deal to produce a live-action movie based on one of their comic book properties, once again with Sony Pictures. According to Deadline, the story of Valiant’s plus-size superhero “Faith” is being developed as a feature film, with Maria Melnik (Starz’s American Gods) hired to pen the script. Faith joins another Valiant property in development at Sony, Bloodshot, about a mortally wounded soldier given extraordinary abilities that has Vin Diesel attached in the title role. Valiant is also pursuing a Harbingers movie, about a group of powered teens on the run, and a rumored Eternal Warrior movie, about an immortal defender of Earth, starring Dave Bautista.

Here is the synopsis and some sample pages from Faith #1 (2016) by Jody Houser, Pere Perez and Marguerite Sauvage.

In a city under siege by robots, aliens, monsters and even worse… celebrities, there is only one woman the people of Los Angeles can count on: the stratospheric superhero called Faith! Aspiring reporter by day and dedicated crime-fighter by night, Faith has tackled every obstacle in her path with confidence – like those crushing deadlines at work, the long-distance boyfriend half a world away, and the missing back issues that plague her comics collection! But, unbeknownst to her, Faith is about to collide with the one force she never saw coming: an up-and-coming super-villain bent on snuffing her out once and for all! But who is lurking behind the mask of her new foe…and could they just be the one person capable of rendering Faith powerless?