Jordan Peele‘s company Monkeypaw Productions is heading into the podcast space with Quiet Part Loud, a fictional audio series launching on Spotify on November 15, 2022.
Variety reports, “The show, produced by Monkeypaw and Spotify’s Gimlet Media, comprises 12 short-form episodes that will be available for listeners to binge all at once. Tracy Letts, Arian Moayed, Christina Hendricks and Taran Killam star in the podcast.”
Set before the Trump presidency, “Quiet Part Loud” follows Rick Egan (Letts), a fear-mongering, right-wing radio host who loses his platform in the wake of 9/11 for spreading xenophobic rumors surrounding a group of missing Muslim teenagers. Eight years later, the washed-up Egan is slumming it on the convention circuit when a mysterious woman (Hendricks) offers a tantalizing revelation: one of the missing teens has reappeared. Egan embarks on a crusade for vindication and ultimately makes a Faustian bargain with a demonic, shape-shifting sound monster known as “The Blank” (Killam) — which thrives on hatred.
Executive Produced by Jordan Peele, the aim is to deliver “a haunting parable and an unflinching examination of the current state of fear and divisiveness in America” that “explores the roots of our conspiracy-obsessed culture where disinformation now runs rampant.”
“I’m always looking for new ways to explore and innovate in genre storytelling,” Peele said in a statement to Variety. “The potential in audio was tremendously appealing: By stripping horror of all its visuals, you can focus on just conjuring dread and unease in your listener’s ears on this intimate and visceral level. I wanted us to make the scariest podcast of all time.”
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