Gyllenhaal will play John Prophet, “a man conscripted by Germans near the end of World War II and subjected to scientific experiments that gave him superhuman strength.”
In Prophet, based on Rob Liefeld’s comic books published by Image Comics, “John Prophet volunteers for a German experiment near the end of World War II in order to feed his family.
Oscar nominee Jake Gyllenhaal will pen the script.
After a bombing buries him alive and traps him underground for 20 years, he reawakens in 1965, where things are not great for Prophet.