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‘Deadpool’ Creator Rob Liefeld’s Image Comics Character ‘Prophet’ Getting His Own Movie
Created by Rob Liefeld in the early ’90s, Image Comics character John Prophet is headed to the screen in the upcoming Prophet, a feature film adaptation of the comics that’s being penned by Marc Guggenheim (“Arrow”).
Deadline reports that Studio 8 is looking to build a franchise around the character. The site describes Prophet as “a DNA enhanced super-soldier placed into a cryogenic freeze for a future mission only to awaken prematurely in the present, searching for a mission that does not exist. The ruthless berserker must find his humanity.”
The site also notes that John Prophet is “expected to be part of the X-Force franchise launch that Drew Goddard is writing to direct.”
Producers on the feature film adaptation include Adrian Askarieh (Hitman: Agent 47), Brooklyn Weaver (Run All Night), Rob Liefeld, John Hyde and Terissa Kelton.
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Christopher Landon to Helm Feature Adaptation of Grady Hendrix’s ‘The Final Girl Support Group’
A new feature adaptation of author Grady Hendrix‘s slasher book The Final Girl Support Group is now on the way from Paramount Pictures, and Deadline reports that it’s found its director in Christopher Landon (Drop, Happy Death Day).
The two previously collaborated on My Best Friend’s Exorcism.
In The Final Girl Support Group, “Lynette is a real-life final girl who survived a massacre. For more than a decade, she’s been meeting with five other final girls and their therapist in a support group for those who survived the unthinkable, working to put their lives back together. Then one woman misses a meeting, and their worst fears are realized—someone knows about the group and is determined to rip their lives apart again, piece by piece.”
“But the thing about final girls is that no matter how bad the odds, how dark the night, how sharp the knife, they will never, ever give up.”
I wrote in my novel review for BD, “Hendrix puts his characters through the absolute wringer. It’s a bloody, vicious voyage for the flawed heroine, both physically and emotionally. In terms of action and horror, Support Group delivers breakneck pacing and thrills.”
Five years ago, Andy Muschietti & Barbara Muschietti (Mama, It, It Chapter Two) were attached to produce a planned series adaptation for HBO Max alongside Charlize Theron. While Theron is no longer producing, the Muschiettis remain on board under their Double Dream label.
Paramount Pictures is also developing Hendrix’s sci-fi novella, BadAsstronauts.
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