Stop advertising himself, Deadpool creator Rob Liefeld has big news on the horizon ProphetThe film is based on one of its characters owned by its creator, which has been in development since 2020. The film will present a story written by him. Arrow Executive Producer Mark Guggenheim, based on the comics by Layfield, one of the founders of Image Comics. It is set to star Jake Gyllenhaal as John Prophet, a character introduced in Liefeld’s young blood. There have been relatively few updates on the film’s progress since Gyllenhaal rose as star and producer, although both Liefeld and Guggenheim have been publicly enthusiastic about the process of putting the project together.
Of course, enthusiasm doesn’t always guarantee success…or even production. But Layfield, who’s been sitting on the entire Hugh Jackman/Deadpool intel for so long without breaking his silence, seems pretty confident.
“Here’s the deal: Sam Hargrave is still on board. Jake Gyllenhaal is still fully occupied,” Layfield told ComicBook.com. “Jake came in as producer. The draft that’s being finalized now is polishing the second chapter. There was one sequence that was added, that everyone was like ‘How did we never think of that?'” Prophet is like… I wish I could share the script with everyone. It’s that old adage: If it’s not on the page, it’s not on screen. Mark Guggenheim, his draft got us to Sam Hargrave, and we got Jake Gyllenhaal. That’s how good The paper….but we always knew Jake was always making it road house Immediately. Sam would never have finished with him Extraction 2Even a year ago, there were an additional 13, 14 months. So we are very excited. In the movie business, you only hope that important contributors to your business stay, and as of today, Jake is fully involved, taking notes, taking meetings, making up the movie, and Sam in his spare time away from Extraction 2, continued to form. I’m super excited, and I don’t want to get overwhelmed by it, but it’s a big deal.”
He also mocked the announcement of more Extreme Studios titles for screen mods, noting that ’90s properties such as poison And the dead list It was a huge success, and he is confident that some of the characters owned by his creator can achieve similar success.
The script focuses on some of the older Prophet Adventures begin in the second issue of young bloodAccording to Layfield. The big thing that the Guggenheim brings to it, besides the structure of the script, is the emphasis on the character who is somewhat lost in the stylized act of introducing the Prophet into a collective book.
“There is a section in the middle of young blood #2 that deals with the nitty-gritty of why John Prophet did what he did to become the soldier he is, including what he needs to help his family.” He moves you with his texts and storytelling. You’ll tear up in the first 20 minutes. And so after you read on, say to yourself, “You should To have a great actor here,” and then we were lucky enough to add Jake Gyllenhaal to the equation, and let me tell you, he’s like the great actor of his generation.
Gyllenhaal is no stranger to comic book films, as he appeared in them Spider-Man: Far From Home previously. His name also appears as an Easter egg in painting graph in Nutty and pussies. But it was his non-comedy work that made filmmakers believe he was perfect for the prophet John.
John the Prophet envisioned something like “What if Captain America, but violent?” a story. While peace maker It contains an element of that, it is unlikely that there will be much overlap between the two projects. In the comics, the Prophet was a homeless man in the 1940s who ended up being part of the government-funded Super Soldier Program. It worked, but the operation also made him mentally unstable, and the science of that time could not control his fluctuations and anger.
Where Captain America enters de facto freezing barriers after apparently dying during a mission in World War II, the Prophet is put into stasis by his creator, returned to “life” nearly fifty years later and becomes an anti-hero.
Originally inspired by Jane Roddenberry and Steven Spielberg, Prophet He had a brush with the big screen in the ’90s, when TriStar Pictures picked up the rights. But they let it fall apart, and it wasn’t until 2018 when Studio 8 chose the property and started developing it in earnest. With the huge success of Liefeld-created dead list In the films, the studio used Guggenheim to write the adaptation.
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