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Studio 8 Taps 'Prophet' For Pic Franchise From Comic Created By 'Deadpool's Rob Liefeld

In a mid-six against seven-figure rights deal, Studio 8 has made a deal to build a movie around Prophet, the Image Comics character hatched by Deadpool creator Rob Liefeld. The aim is to build a franchise around John Prophet, 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.

Liefeld will produce with Adrian Askarieh (Hitman) and Brooklyn Weaver (Out of the Furnace).

Prophet originated in Leifeld’s Youngblood, and grew into a series of his own in 1993. He cross pollinated with another Liefeld creation, Cable, who was just played by Josh Brolin in Deadpool 2 and who will be part of Fox’s X-Force franchise launch that Drew Goddard is writing to direct. It’s all based on the comic characters created by Leifeld, who just made a massive deal with Netflix for his Extreme Universe pool of superhero characters to be used in franchise creations creatively overseen by Akiva Goldsman.

John Hyde and Terissa Kelton will also be involved in producing capacities and John Graham & Guy Danella are overseeing for Studio 8, Jeff Robinov’s Sony-based company that launches its first homegrown films this summer in the August 17 Albert Hughes-directed Alpha and the September 14 Yann Demange-directed White Boy Rick.

Liefeld is repped by WME, Energy Entertainment and Attorney Greg Gellman.

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Rob Liefeld’s Prophet Optioned For Film

The film rights to Deadpool co-creator Rob Liefeld’s Image Comics character Prophet have been picked up by Studio 8, The Wrap reports.

Prophet is a DNA-enhanced super soldier who was put in a cyrogenic sleep for a special mission, only to wake up in the wrong time: our present. The character is, as the report states, “pitched as very much the anti-Captain America across the board” and — instead of being an All-American superhero — he’s “a ruthless berserker that must find his humanity.”

Studio 8 hopes to create a franchise around Prophet. Leifeld, Hitman franchise producer Adrian Askarieh and Out of the Furnace and Run All Night producer Brooklyn Weaver will spearhead the project. Studio 8 also has the rights to bring Kwanza Osajyefo and Tim Smith 3’s socio-political comic Black to the big screen.

Leifeld has helped create over 150 comic book characters, including the X-Men offshoot team X-Force, which will get its own film from Fox. The upcoming X-Force film will be written and directed by Drew Goddard. Leifeld also had a hand in creating Cable, Domino and Shatterstar, who appeared in Deadpool 2 as played by Josh Brolin, Zazie Beetz and Lewis Tan respectively.

Studio 8’s upcoming Prophet film does not yet have a release date.