Jake Gyllenhaal will no longer star in Rob Liefeld’s film adaptation of THE PROPHET

It’s been about four years since it was announced Rob Liefeld’S Prophet was being adapted into a feature film. Jake Gyllenhall he was supposed to star in and executive produce the film, but the actor dropped out of the project.

The news comes from Liefeld himself onwards means of social communication saying, “People ask me about Prophet movie, and while the movie is still moving forward, I can confirm that it no longer features Jake Gyllenhaal. I wish him all the best Roadhouse and his future plans.”

Marc Guggenheim he was also involved in the project at the beginning to write the screenplay, and eventually left the project as well. It seems that Extraction director Sam Hargrave he’s still busy directing it, though.

Gyllenhaal would play John Prophet, a man “drafted by the Germans towards the end of World War II and subjected to scientific experiments that gave him superhuman strength.”

In the film, “John Prophet volunteers for a German experiment near the end of World War II to feed his family. After a bombing buries him alive and traps him underground for 20 years, he awakens in 1965, where things are not going well for Prophet. The world has moved on without him, his daughter is mad at him and KGB agents are chasing him to create super-soldiers from his blood.”

Here is a more detailed description of John Prophet’s character and his story:

John Prophet, a poor and homeless man living during World War II, volunteered to participate in the medical experiments of Dr. Horatio Wells, a time-traveling scientist from the future who used DNA enhancement methods to transform Prophet into a supersoldier. Prophet was designed to serve the evil Phillip Omen and programmed with murderous instincts. Wells, however, changed his mind and changed Prophet’s programming from evil to a strong belief in God. Wells planned for Prophet to be placed in stasis for many years and then resurface in the future to help Wells’ people fight the evil Disciples. Eventually found by Youngblood, Prophet awakens disoriented, in a world he does not recognize, and 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 “senseless weapon of war” in Vietnam. Stephen Platt, Prophet’s artist from 1994 to 1996, explained that the character “seems[s] responsible for the things people forced him to do, even if he can’t remember them. He always thought of himself as a good person, and now he’s discovering that the things he did were horrible by any standards of human decency. He will […] embark on 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 doesn’t know how to hail a taxi, he eats ice cream too quickly and he gets headaches.”

Now that Gyllenhaal is no longer attached to the project, is there another actor you’d like to see play the role?