Mark Burnett & Roma Downey Developing New NBC Drama Based on FAUST

Mark Burnett and his wife, actress/producer Roma Downey, have one more project lined up, according to Deadline.

With the success of THE BIBLE, the pair are now in development on FAUST at NBC, a drama based on the classic German legend." Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa will pen the script. Thre three will also executive produce.

The project is described as "a faith-based medical procedural and a contemporary take on the popular tale about a scholar who sells his soul to the Devil for ultimate knowledge, which will explore questions of faith and the supernatural in a grounded, realistic way.

Set in Washington, DC, the drama centers on an ambitious surgeon forced to confront a terrible truth: That he may lose everything good in his life-his job, his family, his very soul-when a diabolical stranger from his past arrives, to collect on a bargain they made thirteen years earlier."

Burnett and Downey are also in development on THE DOVEKEEPERS for CBS and THE RED TENT for Lifetime.