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Kyle Starks’ Kill Them All returns with a new Deluxe Edition for Summer 2025

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Oni Press has revealed a brand-new edition of Eisner Award-nominated cartoonist Kyle Starks’ signature soon-’em-up with the Kill Them All Deluxe Edition hardcover! the heart-pounding graphic novel Kill Them All! In advance of the graphic novel’s upcoming big-screen adaptation from Paramount Pictures and director Sam Hargrave, Starks’ gonzo graphic novel ode to 90s action movies is required reading for all fans of guts, gunplay and non-stop, powder-burned combat.

A betrayed assassin will stop at nothing to get revenge. A hard drinking disgraced former cop just wants to get his thankless job back. For either to get what they want, they’re going to have to fight their way from lobby to penthouse, through wave after relentless wave of merciless criminals, assassins, drug lords, murderers, and even . . . accountants [shudder], until there’s no one left standing. In short: KILL. THEM. ALL.

Don’t miss the return of this killer classic when Kill Them All returns to comic shops and bookstores everywhere in June 2025!

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Kurt Johnstad tapped to write Rob Liefeld and Jake Gyllenhaal’s Prophet

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Sam Hargrave is tapped to direct and Jake Gyllenhaal is set to star in Prophet, a film based on the comic book series created by Rob Liefeld. It has now been announced that Kurt Johnstad will be writing the film.

Kurt Johnstad has adapted a few comic properties for film before. He wrote the screenplays for 300 (and 300: Rise of an Empire) and Atomic Blonde. Marc Guggenheim wrote the original script for the film. It’s unknown if Johnstad’s take is a rewrite or a tweak of that.

John Prophet first debuted in July 1992 in the pages of Youngblood #2, written and drawn by Rob Liefeld. The character became an instant hit with audiences and created a demand that he star in his own showcase series featuring art by Dan Panosian from stories and layouts by Liefeld.

The general story of Prophet revolves around a man conscripted by the Germans towards the end of World War II. He’s experimented on and given superhuman strength. He’s then buried alive after a bombing trapping him. He eventually escapes to a world that has moved on.

Prophet has had an on again off again publishing history with his first running eleven issues and a second in 1995 lasting eight issues. A one-shot was released in 2000 by Awesome Comics. In 2012 a new series launched with issue #21 and ran until 2014 with Prophet #45. In January 2016 Prophet: Earth War launched and ended after six issues in November 2016. Recently, Prophet #1 Remastered was released.

The Prophet film was originally announced in October 2021.

Jake Gyllenhaal and Sam Hargrave Team for Rob Liefeld’s Prophet

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Jake Gyllenhaal is set to star in Prophet based on the comic series created by Rob Liefeld. Sam Hargrave is directing. Prophet was created by Liefeld and debuted in Youngblood #2 in July 1992.

In the film, John Prophet voluneers for a German experiment near the end of World War II in order to feed his family. He’s buried alive and trapped due to a bombing and reawakens in 1965. The world has moved on without him.

Studio 8’s Jeff Robinov produces along with Studio 8’s John Graham, Prime Universe Films’ Adrian Askarieh, Liefield and Brooklyn Weaver. Hargrave is an in-demand director after Extraction which was a hit for Netflix.

Gyllenhaal and Hargrave have a lot of “comic” film history. Gyllenhaal played Mysterio in 2019’s Spider-Man: Far From Home. Hargrave began in stunts having worked on Marvel Studios’ Captain America: The Winter Soldier to Avengers: Endgame. Extraction was also based on a comic book.

Prophet has had an on again off again publishing history with his first running eleven issues and a second in 1995 lasting eight issues. A one-shot was released in 2000 by Awesome Comics. In 2012 a new series launched with issue #21 and ran until 2014 with Prophet #45. In January 2016 Prophet: Earth War launched and ended after six issues in November 2016.