Sony Pictures Television has acquired its newest comic property, Faust, with plans to develop it as an animated series, reports Deadline of the superhero horror comic book from writer David Quinn and artist Tim Vigil.
“Released by Quinn and Vigil’s Rebel Studios in 1987, Faust follows John Jaspers, a tormented vigilante who sells his soul in exchange for superpowers and must then rise against Mephistopheles to rescue his lover Dr. Jade DeCamp and win back his soul.”
Godkiller writer Matteo Pizzolo will write the adaptation under his first-look deal with SPT.
Comic’s creators Quinn and Vigil will serve as consulting producers on the adaptation, with Black Mask Entertainment’s Brian Giberson executive producing.
Writes Deadline: “Faust was a deconstructed superhero comic contemporaneous with Watchmen, Dark Knight Returns and The Crow. The first issue sold over 100,000 copies, with later issues averaging 50,000. The core series and its various spinoffs ran for 25 years from a host of publishers including Northstar Comics, Caliber Comics, Avatar Press, and principally Quinn and Vigil’s own Rebel Studios.”
“The Faust comic was previously adapted to the screen with the 2000 Spanish English-language film Faust: Love of the Damned directed by Brian Yuzna.” Here’s that trailer…