The book's film will include the Nazi origins of Hero
Marc Guggenheim shares new details on Prophet, an upcoming comic book film about a super soldier struggling with creation by the Nazis.
Marc Guggenheim shares new details about the upcoming comic book film, Prophet, revealing that the adaptation of the film retains the origin of the main character as an improved super soldier created by the Nazis. Arrowverse co-creator was tasked with writing the script for the film Prophet for the adaptation of Rob Liefeld's comics earlier this month, and just yesterday Sony announced that he was hiring him for the adaptation of the spin-off series Spider-Man Jackpot, below. adding Marvel characters to the Sony Pictures universe.
Prophet's first appearance is in the comic series by Rob Liefeld Youngblood # 2, which debuted in 1992 after his release from Marvel Comics, where he created cult characters like Deadpool and Cable. John Prophet lived like a homeless person during World War II until he volunteered for a study by Dr. Horatio Wells, a time travel scientist. Wells puts him on cryostatis after injecting him with the DNA enhancement technology of the future with the intention of joining him later, but Prophet wakes up accidentally these days, disoriented, overpowered and with a desire to kill.
In an interview with Christina Radish of Collider, Guggenheim went into more detail on the Nazi backstory, saying that his goal with the film is to put Prophet in a position where he faces "very similar moral questions, almost parallels ... coming out of a great evil, then having to face a new form of this evil, is very interesting for me. "He ended by mentioning that he was intentionally vague, even if he alluded to his position with previous references to the Nazis in his work.
Plans for a Prophet film from Tristar Pictures were blocked in 1995, then resumed more than 20 years later in 2018 by Studio 8 when it acquired the rights, but they have been on a slow burn ever since. When it was announced earlier this month that Guggenheim was going to write Liefeld's project, the two men shared their enthusiasm on Twitter, Liefeld writing "You are going to dig into what is in store!" and Guggenheim responding that he was "delighted and grateful for the opportunity". Liefeld will co-produce with Hitman: Agent 47 of Adrian Askarieh, Brooklyn Weaver, John Hyde and Terissa Kelton.
Between Prophet, Jackpot and his work on CW's Legends of Tomorrow - which airs his directorial debut on May 26 at 9 p.m. - Guggenheim certainly has his hands full, but he seems to welcome the challenge. Even though Prophet doesn't have a release date yet, with all the right players in place, it's only a matter of time before the story of Rob Liefeld's super soldier comes to life on the big screen.
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