Jake Gyllenhaal and “Extraction” director Sam Hargrave are teaming up for a film adaptation of Rob Liefeld’s period comic “Prophet” at Studio 8.
Gyllenhaal will star as John Prophet, a man conscripted by the Germans near the end of World War II and subjected to scientific experiments that gave him superhuman strength.
After a bombing buries him alive and traps him underground for twenty years, he reawakens in 1965. The world has moved on without him, his daughter resents him, and KGB agents are after him to create super-soldiers from his blood.
Former “Legends of Tomorrow” and “Arrow” showrunner Marc Guggenheim is penning the script while Liefield, Jeff Robinov, John Graham, Adrian Askarieh and Brooklyn Weaver produce.
Source: THR
