PROPHET Movie Starring SPIDER-MAN's Jake Gyllenhaal Gets A Positive Update From Creator Rob Liefeld

PROPHET Movie Starring SPIDER-MAN's Jake Gyllenhaal Gets A Positive Update From Creator Rob Liefeld

Jake Gyllenhaal has already tackled one big comic book movie project in Spider-Man: Far From Home, but he'll next take the lead in Prophet. Read on for an update from the character's creator, Rob Liefeld.

By JoshWilding - Oct 02, 2022 02:10 PM EST
Filed Under: Action
Source: ComicBook.com (via ActioNewz.com)

Prophet, a character created by Deadpool mastermind Rob Liefeld, first appeared in the pages of 1992's Youngblood #2. He's since gone on to star in his own series (on multiple occasions), though talk of a movie featuring the character actually first began in the mid-1990s. 

Nothing much happened until back in 2018 when Studio 8 acquired the rights, with it later being revealed that the script would be penned by Arrow and Legends of Tomorrow scribe Marc Guggenheim. Things only got more exciting with the addition of Extraction director Sam Hargrave and the news that Jake Gyllenhaal (Spider-Man: Far From Home) would star as the title character. 

We haven't heard much since, but Liefeld has shared a big update during a recent interview with ComicBook.com (via ActioNewz.com).

"Jake has come on as a producer. The draft that is being completed right now is a polish of the second act. 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 screenplay with everybody," he says. "It's that old adage: if it's not on the page, it's not on the screen."

Marc Guggenheim, his draft got us Sam Hargrave, got us Jake Gyllenhaal. That's how good the paper is...but we always knew, Jake was always making Road House right now. Sam was never going to be done with Extraction 2, even a year ago, there was an additional 13, 14 months. So we're extremely excited."

"In the business of movies, you just hope that your important contributors stay on board, and as of today, Jake is fully engaged, giving notes, taking meetings, shaping the movie, and Sam is in his free time away from Extraction 2, has continued to shape it," Liefeld adds. "I am super excited, I don't want to jinx it, but it is a big deal."

This all sounds very promising and, as of right now, there's really no reason to believe this movie won't finally become a reality. This is an impressive group of people working on bringing the character to the big screen, anyway, and the hope now is that it will be the next project Hargrave and Gyllenhaal decide to tackle. 

Liefeld's work is often divisive among comic book fans, but he's created a lot of great characters over the years and Prophet is definitely worthy of a big screen outing. 

Are you guys excited about this take on Prophet?

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dracula
dracula - 10/2/2022, 2:05 PM
Seriously Liefeld is lucky Deadpool is popular

All of his characters are knock offs. It wasnt even him who made deadpool the character he is known as. Other writers did that. He just made a deathstroke knock off
Fogs
Fogs - 10/2/2022, 2:48 PM
@dracula - Liefeld is lucky he ever got in the industry, tbh.
Rosraf
Rosraf - 10/2/2022, 3:35 PM
@dracula - Partly true, but Cable was instantly popular (Liefeld's version), as was turning New Mutants into X-Force (Liefeld's idea).

I think his early success was well-deserved. But then it kind of spoiled him and his success after that was more business savvy than anything else.
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 10/2/2022, 6:06 PM
@dracula - Yeah man. He even admits that he was making a parody of Deathstroke. Deadpool was basically Drathstroke with Spider-Man's mouth. Meaning he just talked a lot and annoyed people he was fighting.

It wasn't until much later that Deadpool finally became his own character.
grif
grif - 10/2/2022, 2:16 PM
wow. how do you make this a movie?
Origame
Origame - 10/2/2022, 4:30 PM
@grif - coke. Lots of coke.
Shivermetimbers
Shivermetimbers - 10/3/2022, 12:01 PM
@grif - Yeah I was kind of thinking the same thing. I liked the early comics, but mainly just because of Stephen Platt's insane exaggerated hyper detailed art. Otherwise its pretty generic super soldier story.
TheWalkingCuban
TheWalkingCuban - 10/2/2022, 2:21 PM
Kind of looks like Shatterstar from Deadpool 2
tmp3
tmp3 - 10/2/2022, 2:24 PM
gyllenhaal keeps picking the shlockiet shit to sign onto, a few years ago he was doing prisoners & nightcrawler, and now it's the road house remake and prophet lol
GhostDog
GhostDog - 10/2/2022, 3:20 PM
@tmp3 - he’s in his “[frick] it I’m having fun and counting checks” period
TheJester187
TheJester187 - 10/2/2022, 2:27 PM
Love the passion. Hope it’s not a botched character film like Bloodshot with Vin Diesel. Yeah….Everyone forgot about the blunder smh.And the costume has to be accurate please. Do him Justice like Deadpool.
thekabsin
thekabsin - 10/2/2022, 9:12 PM
@TheJester187 - I completely forgot that was a movie, unbelievable really because i loved that comic and Vin growing up.
noahthegrand
noahthegrand - 10/2/2022, 2:28 PM
So what is Prophet’s deal?
Asterisk
Asterisk - 10/2/2022, 2:46 PM
Gyllenhall has evolved into doing action schlock now I guess
TheSuperMex
TheSuperMex - 10/2/2022, 2:52 PM
90s extreme comics would be prefect for Zack Snyder.
Rosraf
Rosraf - 10/2/2022, 3:39 PM
@TheSuperMex - 100% agree. I don't even like Snyder, but he's the perfect choice for X-Force/Youngblood/Wildcats/Wetworks/Cyberforce, etc. etc.
mountainman
mountainman - 10/2/2022, 4:51 PM
@Rosraf - Any of those besides X-Force. At least they evolved past the 90’s extreme pouches and guns phase. Snyder on Wildcasts or Youngblood - YES!
GhostDog
GhostDog - 10/2/2022, 3:22 PM
Idk how you make this work.
Urubrodi
Urubrodi - 10/3/2022, 4:22 AM
@GhostDog - Stay true to the source material, know your target audience, have a good script, a good cast.. etc. The usual.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 10/3/2022, 9:04 AM
@Urubrodi - I mean this character is kind of ridiculous. And I say that understanding how weird comics are but Prophet is particularly just ridiculous. I read up on him and there’s a lot of FAT on this that they may have to cut.
Urubrodi
Urubrodi - 10/3/2022, 9:13 AM
@GhostDog - I'll be honest that I don't really know the character, but there have been so many ideas for movies that on the paper sound horrible but then end up succeding. If it doesn't have a high budget and they decide to target a particular audience maybe making it r rated or something, it could work. Maybe just embrance the ridiculous aspect of it, bring someone like Snyder who likes to make stylized edgy stuff and go for it. Make the most 90s movie possible, but on purpose and not by mistake, like Morbius and Venom.
Reeds2Much
Reeds2Much - 10/2/2022, 4:33 PM
Rob Liefeld

Speaking of body horror of distorted human atrocities, it's spooky season so just a reminder that there are three types of people:

People who think Frankenstein was the monster.
People who think Frankenstein wasn't the monster.
People who think Frankenstein was the monster.
RolandD
RolandD - 10/2/2022, 5:08 PM
@Reeds2Much - Is that a real quote of Liefeld? Perfect gif regardless.
Reeds2Much
Reeds2Much - 10/2/2022, 7:17 PM
@RolandD - Just critique on Liefeld's "style" leading to a minor Dad Joke.
RolandD
RolandD - 10/2/2022, 10:53 PM
@Reeds2Much - I don’t know Liefeld’s work other than he’s an awful artist so the joke was lost on me. 😉
DTor91
DTor91 - 10/2/2022, 5:28 PM
“Deadpool mastermind Rob Liefeld”

And Fabian Nicieza.
ComicBandit
ComicBandit - 10/2/2022, 5:46 PM
So the Winter Soldier is getting his own movie. 😶
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 10/2/2022, 6:01 PM
Jake Gyllenhal seems like a really weird pick to play Prophet. Granted, I don't know much about the character, but Jake is like the last person on earth I would pick to play this guy.

Drewwright816
Drewwright816 - 10/2/2022, 8:46 PM
@CorndogBurglar - just look at that drawing it’s just so bad even by the standards at the time I don’t get why he ever became policy like that foot in the left looks like a broken ankle and the foot just dangling
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