New Girl-star Lamorne Morris will join Vin Diesel in Bloodshot. He will join the Sony Pictures film in the role of scientist Wilfred Wigans, who becomes Bloodshot's unlikely ally.

Toby Kebbell, Eiza Gonzalez, Michael Sheen, Sam Heughan, Talulah Riley and Alex Hernandez also star in the project, which will be directed by Dave Wilson.

Bloodshot, first published in 1992, centres on a mortally wounded soldier with powers of regeneration and meta-morphing made possible through nano-machines in his bloodstream.

Bloodshot was created by Kevin VanHook, Don Perlin and Bob Layton for Valiant. Over its comic book run, Bloodshot totalled 110 issues with more than 7.5 million copies sold.