Sony Pictures Television Developing 'Faust': Animated Series Based On Comic

Deadline is reporting that Sony Pictures Television has acquired Faust, the superhero horror comic book to be developed as an animated series.

Writer Matteo Pizzolo will write the adaptation under his first-look deal with Sony Pictures Television.

The comic book was created and released by writer David Quinn and artist Tim Vigil's Rebel Studios in 1987, Faust follows John Jaspers, a tormented vigilante who sells his soul in exchange for super powers and must then rise against Mephistopheles to rescue his lover Dr. Jade DeCamp and win back his soul.

Comic’s creators Quinn and Vigil will serve as consulting producers on the adaptation, with Black Mask Entertainment’s Brian Giberson executive producing.

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.