• Faust

  • Cory Byam
  • 2011
  • Available
  • No Agent
  • Action
  • Thriller
  • 82.9
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Market: Tue, 04 Oct 2011
ManagerKen Freimann (Circle of Confusion)
Once a Bounty hunter of souls, a re-imagined form of Goethe’s Faust must break free of his evil servitude to Lucifer and rescue a young woman whose soul is vital in turning the balance in the fight between good and evil.
Faust sold his soul to save his wife, who died anyway, and now he collects souls for the devil to pay off his debt. When Faust is asked by an angel to protect a woman from the devil, Faust learns that this woman is carrying, and protecting, half of his late wife's soul.
The mythic figure of Faust is re-imagined as a modern man who made a deal with the devil to save his dying wife and became a soul collector to repay his debt. Thirty years later when his debt is almost repaid, he becomes a vital part in the approaching battle between angels and demons.
Film
Film, Action, Fantasy, Horror, Supernatural, Thriller, Apocalyptic, Dark, Demons, Ghost, Hitman, Adaptation
111
PG-13
High
M
White / European
38
Fit
Legion, Priest
Present with flashbacks to thirty years ago, A Few Days
85% takes place in locations around New York City 15% in fantasy locations relating to Heaven and Hell. New York City locations mostly split between Manhattan and Brooklyn with Manhattan locations of downtown office building, Gothic-style cathedral with a seminary garden including a mausoleum that opens into a hidden underground bunker, Manhattan souvenir shop, gas station and Brooklyn locations include pawn shop with a backroom and locker room plus a basement containing catacombs, a dungeon and the pits of Hell, pawn shop building at one point explodes, bar, apartment building, dirty one room apartment. Other locations around New York city are Bronx apartment building and abandoned empty apartment inside it with flashback to apartment fully decorated before it was abandoned, Grand Central Terminal and rooftop which get torn up during a battle at the end, back alleys, Little Hades neighborhood of NYC, Little Hades shop that sells souls, several building rooftops, one with a water tower and utility shed, shipyard warehouse, Coney Island abandoned amusement park with Ferris wheel, roller coaster and carousel house interior, elevated subway platform looking down on a street, Williamsburg Bridge, Staten Island hospital psychiatric ward, flashbacks to thirty years ago in hospital room and maternity ward and a cemetery.
In downtown Manhattan, FAUST (?) takes the soul of a man whose pact with the devil has run out, and delivers it to MALPHUS (35). LUCIFER (55) assigns Faust another soul to collect.

In a hospital, MARIAH (30) resists treatment for madness as demons only she can see surround her. Faust arrives at a cathedral tended to by PYTHOS (36), who leads him to a bunker full of weapons and equipment. Faust reveals that he is suffering from an ash-like affliction, and Pythos gives him a serum to counter its effects. The pair meet two AGENTS, who try to recruit Faust into finding and rescuing Mariah. They believe Mariah is the key to winning a war between heaven and hell. Faust resists, and goes to his apartment to think about it, where he remembers his late wife Anna, with sadness.

As Faust struggles to decide whether or not to help, Ronald (56) visits Mariah in the hospital, but is prevented from seeing her and is told her attacks are getting worse. Mariah is set to undergo further treatment for her ‘madness’ but at the last second Faust appears and rescues her.

Malphus and his lackeys kill the two agents who hired Faust, and Faust arrives just...