Jordan Peele goals to make the scariest podcast of all time

Since making the shift from comedy into horror, Jordan Peele has introduced style tales to the massive display and the small – Get Out, Us, Nope, Candyman, The Twilight Zone, Lovecraft Nation, Wendell & Wild, and so on. Now he’s out to convey horror on to folks’s ears, as he’s govt producing what he hopes can be “the scariest podcast of all time”. That podcast known as Quiet Half Loud, and Selection stories that it’ll launch solely on Spotify on Tuesday, November 15. All twelve episodes of the present can be obtainable to take heed to on that day.

Produced by Spotify’s Gimlet Media and Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions, Quiet Half Loud is about earlier than the Trump presidency and facilities on

Rick Egan, a fear-mongering, right-wing radio host who loses his platform within the wake of 9/11 for spreading xenophobic rumors surrounding a gaggle of lacking Muslim youngsters. Eight years later, the washed-up Egan is slumming it on the conference circuit when a mysterious lady provides a tantalizing revelation: one of many lacking teenagers has reappeared. Egan embarks on a campaign for vindication and finally makes a Faustian cut price with a demonic, shape-shifting sound monster referred to as “The Clean” — which thrives on hatred.

The voice solid contains Tracy Letts (The Sinner) as Rick Egan, Christina Hendricks (Mad Males) because the mysterious lady, and Taran Killam (Saturday Night time Reside) as The Clean. Arian Moayed (Succession) can also be within the solid.

Peele is govt producing Quiet Half Loud with Win Rosenfeld of Monkeypaw and Mimi O’Donnell of Spotify. O’Donnell can also be directing the present, working from scripts written by Mac Rogers and Clay McLeod Chapman. Geoff Foster, Amy McLeish, and Katie Pastore are the producers.

Peele offered the next assertion: “I’m at all times searching for new methods to discover and innovate in style storytelling. The potential in audio was tremendously interesting: By stripping horror of all its visuals, you may give attention to simply conjuring dread and unease in your listener’s ears on this intimate and visceral stage. I needed us to make the scariest podcast of all time.“

Quiet Half Loud will use “immersive audio and sound design to current ‘a haunting parable and an unflinching examination of the present state of worry and divisiveness in America’ that ‘explores the roots of our conspiracy-obsessed tradition the place disinformation now runs rampant.’“

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