We first mentioned the upcoming radio broadcast Wolverine: The Long Night a while back. The project is a murder-mystery starring everyone’s favorite mutant who is voiced by Richard Armitage (The Hobbity Trilogy) and it’s being written by Ben Percy (Green Arrow). Now, we have more details on the project, including the first trailer.
Writer Ben Percy touches on the supernatural and fantastical in the podcast, and how it blends with the murder-mystery tone of the project:
“It’s very easy to turn up the volume on reality there. In addition to the crime investigation into the serial killer on the loose, there are also elements of the fantastic. And some of them have to do with Wolverine as his legend grows in this area, as people observe him bounding through the mists with packs of wolves; as they witness him save and end lives. I’m also drawing from the native legends in the area and from cultish mythology. There is a compound set up outside of the towns of Burns, Alaska, where the Aurora cult is located. And it’s unclear at first whether they are implicated in the murders that are occurring here and whether they might have powers, as they purport to — a connection to and a control over the fabric of light that plays over the winter skies.”
The 10-episode series airs weekly beginning on March 12, 2018, exclusively on Stitcher Premium. It will be given a wide release across all podcast platforms in fall 2018.
To receive updates and be notified of the release, listeners can sign up at WolverinePodcast.com.
