Rob Liefeld provides updates on the PROPHET film project with Jake Gyllenhaal

Dead Pool Creator Rob Liefeld is currently working hard on the highly anticipated Deadpool 3, but he also has another project in the works that fans are excited about. The film Prophet is based on one of his creator-owned characters and has been in development since 2020. The film will feature a story written by Arrow executive producer Marc Guggenheimbased on Liefeld’s comics.

It is meant to act Jake Gyllenhaal like John Prophet, a character introduced in Liefeld Young blood. There have been few updates on the film’s progress since Gyllenhaal embarked as a star and producer, but Liefeld recently talked to ComicBook and told fans what’s going on, saying:

“Here’s the deal: Sam Hargrave is still on board. Jake Gyllenhaal is still fully engaged. Jake has become a producer. The draft that is being completed right now is a refinement of the second act. A sequence has been added, that one. everyone said ‘How did we not think about it?’ 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. Marc Guggenheim, his draft got us Sam Hargrave, got Jake Gyllenhaal. good paper … But we always knew that Jake always did Street house right now. Sam would never finish Extraction 2, even a year ago, there were another 13, 14 months. So we are extremely excited. In the film business, you just hope your important contributors stay on board and, as of today, Jake is fully involved, giving notes, taking meetings, shaping the film and Sam is in his spare time away from. Extraction 2, he continued to shape it. I’m super excited, I don’t want to spoil it, but it’s a big deal. “

He also teased that there will be more Extreme Studios titles announced for film adaptations, noting that 1990s properties such as Poison And Dead Pool have been big hits and he is confident that some of his creator-owned characters will have similar success.

The script focuses on some of the early ones Prophet adventures, starting with the second issue of Young blood, according to Liefeld. The important thing that Guggenheim brings, beyond the script structure, is a focus on the character that was a little lost in the bombastic action of introducing Prophet in a team book.

He previously spoke to the outlet in 2021 about the adaptation, saying:

“There is a section in the middle of Young blood # 2 that gets into the crux of why John Prophet does what he did to become the soldier he is, including what he needed to help his family. The great thing about Marc Guggenheim is that he moves you with his scripts and his storytelling. You are about to cry for the first 20 minutes. And so after reading, you say to yourself: “There must be a great actor here” so we were lucky enough to add Jake Gyllenhaal to the equation and man, let me tell you, he’s like the great actor of his. generation. “

It looks like it’s going to be a really cool movie! Prophet It doesn’t have a release date yet, but it looks like if we’re patient, it will eventually happen. Can’t wait to see him reunite?