Jake Gyllenhaal (The Guilty, Brokeback Mountain) is now attached to star in Prophet, a Studio 8 superhero pic to be directed by Extraction‘s Sam Hargrave.The film based on the classic Image comic book from Deadpool creator Rob Liefeld is intended to launch a new franchise.
It will center on John Prophet (Gyllenhaal), a man who gains superhuman strength after being conscripted by the Germans and subjected to scientific experiments during WWII.Prophet only volunteers for the experimental program, so that he’ll be able to feed his family.
After being buried alive from a bombing, which traps him underground for 20 years, he reawakens in 1965 to a world he doesn’t recognize, a daughter who resents him, and the KGB agents who want to create an
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