Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw is Making Its Way to Podcasts

Thus far, each time you hear that Jordan Peele is cooking one thing up, it’s price being attentive to. Just this yr alone, he delivered a enjoyable, sometimes grim have a look at the Hollywood and leisure tradition equipment with Nope again in July, adopted by his reunion with longtime collaborator Keegan-Michael Key for Henry Selick’s stop-motion horror flick, Wendell & Wild. For his subsequent enterprise, Peele is following within the footsteps of a number of males earlier than him who’ve all of the sudden realized they’ve a microphone and turning his eye in direction of podcasting.

Announced earlier within the week by Variety, Peele’s manufacturing firm Monkeypaw Productions is releasing the audio collection Quiet Part Loud. The Spotify-exclusive podcast will function 12 short-form episodes centered on a former right-wing radio host named Rick Egan (voiced by Tracy Letts) who unfold false rumors a couple of group of Muslim youngsters who went lacking within the early aftermath of 9/11. When he’s knowledgeable that certainly one of stated teenagers has all of the sudden reappeared, Egan goes on a seek for solutions and ultimately crosses paths with a demonic, hate-feeding entity referred to as “The Blank” (Taran Killam).

With a premise that guarantees to be “a haunting parable and an unflinching examination of the current state of fear and divisiveness in America,” it makes some sense why Quiet Part Loud has wound up at Peele’s Monkeypaw banner. All three of his movies, together with final yr’s Candyman from Nia DaCosta, have been put underneath the style of “social horror,” which focuses extra instantly on and augments (or makes an attempt to) themes of race, gender, and sophistication. Given that his firm’s earlier works haven’t actually ever starred protagonists with a particularly political bent, it could take some of us without warning once they hear of Quiet’s premise. However this podcast compares to the remainder of Peele and Monkeypaw’s work within the house, it’s uncertain that this can be their solely time delving into the medium.

Also starring Christina Hendricks and Arian Moayed, Quiet Part Loud will premiere all 12 episodes on Spotify on Tuesday, November 15. The collection is directed by Mimi O’Donnell and written by Mac Rogers and Clay McLeod Chapman.

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