Faust horror comic is getting an animated series adaptation

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

Twenty-one years ago, genre filmmaker and frequent Stuart Gordon collaborator Brian Yuzna made the film Faust: Love of the Damned, a live-action adaptation of the Faust comic book series that was created by writer David Quinn and artist Tim Vigil. Now another adaptation is in the works, but this one is an animated series that's set up at Sony Pictures Television, with Matteo Pizzolo writing.

The superhero horror comic Faust made its debut in 1987 and centered on 

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.

Black Mask Entertainment's Brian Giberson is executive producing the animated series, with Quinn and Vigil on board as consulting producers.

The Faust comic started off at Quinn and Vigil's own company Rebel Studios, and over the decades issues have been published by the likes of Northstar Comics, Caliber Comics, and Avatar Press.

Yuzna's film starred Mark Frost (not the one who co-created Twin Peaks) as John Jaspers / Faust, and he was joined in the cast by Andrew Divoff, Isabel Brook, Jennifer Rope, Monica Van Campen, and Jeffrey Combs. My only familiarity with the Faust comic comes from that film adaptation, which I only saw once, back when it was first released on DVD. As I recall, I didn't like that movie very much, which is why I've never gone back to it in the last twenty years. But I'm willing to give this animated series a chance to see if it's more appealing to me than that adaptation was.

Matteo Pizzolo created the transmedia series Godkiller, and also wrote the 2017 comic book Calexit. Pizzolo is hoping to turn Calexit into a series as well, and recently wrote a pilot script for that on spec.