STATUS: previously in development (2008-2009 season)
DEVELOPMENT STAGE: script
ADDITIONAL NOTES: two-hour backdoor pilot
DESCRIPTION: (from Sci Fi's press release) Based on an original concept from Rosario Dawson, David Atchinson (Dawson's co-author on the Image Comics book Occult Crimes Task Force), Matthew Spradlin and Tom Feister, True Believer is a quirky, contemporary dramedy about a 20-something comic book nerd who hires a washed-up real-life Superhero to be his crime-fighting sidekick and teach him the ropes. Together, this unlikely duo set out to save the World. Dawson will serve as Executive Producer with Atchinson and Spradlin aboard to write. Feister will consult on the project.