Lamorne Morris Cast in Vin Diesel Movie BLOODSHOT

New Girl's Lamorne Morris has joined Sony's sci-fi action superhero film Bloodshot starring Vin Diesel, according to Deadline.

Morris will play Wilfred Wigans who is described as a young scientist who becomes Bloodshot's unlikely ally. Fellow co-stars are Eiza Gonzalez, Sam Heughan, Talulah Riley, Alex Hernandez, and Toby Kebbell.

Morris is attached for another two films, should the franchise continue after the first film.

Bloodshot is based on the Valiant comic book series and centers around Ray Garrison aka Bloodshot. He's brought back from the dead by Rising Spirit Technologies the use of nanotechnology and suffers total memory loss. Ray struggles to reconnect with who he was while learning what sort of weapon he has become, with the help of a group of other augmented combatants (called Chainsaw).

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