Rob Liefeld's Image Comics Character PROPHET is Getting a Film Adaptation From Writer Marc Guggenheim
Rob Liefeld’s 1990s Image Comics character Prophet is being developed into a live-action film by Studio * who hopes to build a franchise about the character. They’ve hired writer and producer Marc Guggenheim (Arrow, Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow) to adapt it.
The story revolves around a character named John Prophet, “a DNA enhanced super-soldier placed into a cryogenic freeze for a future mission only to awaken prematurely in the present, searching for a mission that does not exist. The ruthless berserker must find his humanity.”
This is actually a cool story and it has the potential to make for a solid film franchise if it’s done well. The movie is also being produced by Adrian Askarieh (Hitman: Agent 47), Brooklyn Weaver (Run All Night), and Rob Liefeld. Here’s a more details breakdown of the character and his story:
John Prophet, a poor and homeless man living in the World War II era, volunteered to participate in the medical experiments of Dr. Horatio Wells, a time-traveling scientist from the future who used DNA-enhancing methods to transform Prophet into a supersoldier. Prophet was engineered to serve the evil Phillip Omen and programmed with murderous instincts. Wells had a change of heart though and changed Prophet's programming from evil to a strong belief in God. Wells planned for Prophet to be placed into stasis for many years and then re-emerge in the future to help Wells's people fight the evil Disciples. Eventually found by Youngblood, Prophet awakens disoriented, in a world he does not recognize, and he mistakes Youngblood for the Disciples and attacks.
It was later discovered that Prophet was not always in stasis after World War II, and had been used as "a mindless weapon of war" in Vietnam. Stephen Platt, Prophet artist from 1994 to 1996, explained that the character "feel[s] responsible for the things that people forced him to do, even though he can't remember them. He's always thought of himself as a good person, and now he's discovering that the things he did were hideous by all standards of human decency. He's going to [...] take a spiritual journey to discover who he really is."
Despite his enhanced DNA and ability to communicate in all languages, Prophet was described as "very childlike" by Platt. "He doesn't know the social workings of the world that most of us take for granted: he can't hail a cab, and he eats ice cream too fast and gets a headache," Platt described to Wizard.
Did you read the Prophet comic book series? Are you excited to learn that it will be getting a film adaptation? Who would you like to see take on the role of the lead character?
Source: Deadline