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Fox Adapting Rob Liefeld’s ‘Prophet’?!
Back in the 90’s it sucked to collect comics. There were so many astounding artists, but even more awful storytellers. The comic biz was infiltrated by greed, and focused on holographic covers and charging extra for variants and celebrated every 25 issues like it was the ‘Death of Superman”.
In the middle of this was Image Comics, which was a new brand compromised of all of the elite talents, created by the likes of Erik Larsen, Jim Lee, Rob Liefeld, Todd McFarlane, Whilce Portacio, Marc Silvestri, and Jim Valentino.
One of the most popular series was Liefeld’s “X-Men”-esque “Youngblood,” which featured the first appearance of the character Prophet (issue #2).
The character would go on to have his own series, at one point drawn by the short-lived uber popular Stephen Platt (yes, he exemplified everything wrong with comics in the 90’s).
Now, nearly 25 years after his first appearance in 1992, Prophet is aiming to become a feature film.
And with Fox already adapting “Deadpool,” another of Liefeld’s creations, it’s no surprise that they’re also behind “Prophet.”
There’s no other news at this time other than the new take is being pitched as a mix between The Martian, Mad Max, and Avatar.
Via Wiki:
John Prophet, a poor and homeless man living in the World War II era, volunteered to participate in the medical experiments of Dr. Horatio Wells, a time-traveling scientist from the future who used DNA-enhancing methods to transform Prophet into a supersoldier. He was engineered to serve the evil Phillip Omen and programmed with murderous instincts. Wells had a change of heart though and changed Prophet’s programming from evil to a strong belief in God. Wells planned for Prophet to be placed into stasis for many years and then re-emerge 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 he 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 mindless weapon of war” in Vietnam.
IDW Dark and Paramount recently joined forces to launch limited comic book tales set in the worlds of Smile and A Quiet Place, and we’ve learned today that they’ll continue hanging around in those franchise universes with two brand new limited series tales.
Entertainment Weekly has exclusively revealed this afternoon that IDW Dark’s Any Given Smile debuts in September, while A Quiet Place: Rising Tides arrives in November.
First up, from writer Stephanie Williams and artist Pablo Collar, Any Given Smile puts a football-themed twist on Parker Finn’s successful Smile movie franchise.
The five-part limited series is “set in January 1995, during the American Arena League football championship game in St. Augustine, Florida. The rising superstar of the Sharks, backup quarterback Dupree, is feeling the pressure from his teammates, the fans, and also the city’s gambling underworld, to whom he owes a considerable debt. Meanwhile, a sports journalist investigates a string of suicides that may be connected to the big game. At the very least, they are connected to a sinister entity that preys on the minds of its victims.”
From writer Declan Shalvey and artist Luke Sparrow, A Quiet Place: Rising Tides will also be a five-issue limited story. The comic book tale “brings the creatures to the Florida Keys, where a father-daughter duo attempt to survive on water in a houseboat.”
EW further details, “This tense family reunion coincides with the arrival of the vicious creatures that hunt through sound. Grace and her dad find safety on the open ocean, but she’ll have to make landfall sooner or later; the father’s oxygen tank and their supplies are running low, while a hurricane swiftly approaches.”
Learn more about both comic books over on Entertainment Weekly.
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