From the hollywoodreporter.com:

Columbia Pictures is closing a deal to acquire the rights to adapt Valiant Comics' Bloodshot into a feature film to be produced by Neal H. Moritz, through his Original Film banner, and Jason Kothari and Dinesh Shamdasani on behalf of Valiant Entertainment, it was announced Wednesday by Hannah Minghella, Columbia president of production.

Jeff Wadlow (Prey), who is writing the screenplay actually instigated the project. A fan of the character, Wadlow, repped by WME, wrote a spec script that attracted Moritz's attention.

Bloodshot, who first appeared in Valiant comic books in 1992, has appeared in more than 70 issues. Valiant, founded in 1989, is re-launching the character this year as it returns to publishing in May.

Bloodshot entered the Valiant universe as mob killer Angelo Mortalli, who enters a witness protection program and then becomes part of a secret experiment to create the ultimate killing machine. His memories are erased and he is injected with microscopic computers called nanites. As he tries to rediscover who he was, he battles both the mob and the police.

“The Bloodshot character has been a fan favorite for nearly two decades, selling approximately 7 million comic books globally. Because there have been more than 1,500 pages of storylines published, there is a rich legacy to draw from as we develop the screenplay. Neal is one of the best action producers working today and we know he is the right filmmaker to take on this potential franchise,” Minghella said.

Moritz and his Original Film are currently in post-production on four films: 21 Jump Street and Total Recall for Columbia Pictures, R.I.P.D. for Universal, and Warner Bros.' Jack the Giant Killer. He is beginning pre-production on the sixth entry in the Fast and Furious franchise as well as on Dead Man Down, starring Colin Farrell and Noomi Rapace.

Rumors are starting to come about that with DC possibly working on a Lobo movie (with Brad Peyton directed), that The Rock will be playing as The Main Man himself.

http://www.joblo.com/horror-movies/news/will-the-rock-slay-our-asses-as-dcs-lobo wrote:

Put this one in the rumor bin for now, but several sources have suggested that Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is eying a starring role in that LOBO movie adaptation we told you about last month. It all started with Bleeding Cool receiving a tip from "an untested, unknown source" that spoke of "a Hollywood party" at which Mr. Johnson told some fellow partiers that he was going to take the Lobo role. Flimsy, I know, but there's another tidbit that makes this info somewhat more legit - last week, a Twitter user mentioned how he would love to see The Rock as a DC superhero, to which the man himself retweeted: "Funny U say that...".

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Confirms that the new villain, under Loki, will be Malekith the Accursed, ruler of the Dark Elves of Svartelfheim.

British stuntman James Grogan wrote:

I had a load of stunt guys in and the director came in and he said ‘Look, we want you all to be elves,’ and I was like ‘What the hell is an elf anyway?’ and he said ‘I want you all to walk around like these supernatural animals’.

from superherohype.com

Summer 2015 looks like it may see the world's two most popular superhero teams go head-to-head. The LA Times is reporting that Warner Bros. is targeting their big screen ensemble, Justice League, for the same summer as Marvel's The Avengers 2.

There's still no director attached, but Justice League has a screenplay from Will Beall. Plot details are few, but the lineup of heroes is said to include (at least) Batman, Superman, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman and The Flash.

The same article notes that the studio wanted The Dark Knight Rises' Christopher Nolan to produce the team-up, but that he declined. Nolan is serving as producer on the upcoming Man of Steel, however. While there's no official confirmation as of yet, it is widely believed that the intent is to carry Henry Cavill's Superman character over to the Justice League feature.

Whether or not Justice League winds up having any ties to previous DC Comics adaptations, the intention of the studio is to spinoff characters into their own franchises post-2015.

First trailer for Thor 2

A few tie-ins with the rest of the MCU, from some of what's known from the comics:
* Gamora (green assassin) was genetically engineered and trained by Thanos himself.
* Drax was formerly a American saxophonist who was killed by Thanos along with his family. Then a cosmic power, on the scale of Galactus, was able to grab his astral form and insert it into a body designed to kill Thanos.
* Iron Man is considered to be a member of the team, though this obviously hasn't yet happened in the films.