Back in 2020, DC Comics, Warner Brothers, and Spotify introduced a partnership to convey unique scripted podcasts to the audio streaming platform. After the inaugural challenge Batman: Unburied launched to nice success, a brand new audio drama appeared inevitable. Sure sufficient in the present day the second challenge from this partnership was announced in the present day. Harley Quinn and The Joker: Sound Mind is a brand-new audio sequence starring Christina Ricci and Billy Magnussen because the respective characters. Check out the audio trailer right here.
According to the press launch, “the series tells a new story from the perspective of one of Gotham City’s most iconic villains.”
When we meet Dr. Harleen Quinzel, she’s recent out of grad college, a brand new psychologist at Arkham Asylum, decided to assist the sufferers her colleagues have written off. But her dad is sick, and in want of an costly, life-saving operation she will’t afford. Pushed to her breaking level, Harleen is bored with taking part in by the principles. So when she meets “Patient J,” a magnetic inmate capable of manipulate everybody however her, Harleen makes a fateful resolution: to make use of her relationship with The Joker to get what she desires, main each of them down a harmful path that can change them, Bruce Wayne (Justin Hartley), and Gotham City endlessly.
This isn’t Ricci’s first enterprise into the DC Universe, having voiced Terra within the Teen Titans: The Judas Contract animated movie.
Rounding out the forged are Amy Sedaris (The Mandalorian, At Home with Amy Sedaris) as Harleen’s Aunt Rose, Andre Royo (Empire, The Spectacular Now) as Arnold Wesker aka The Ventriloquist, Stephen Root (Barry, King Of The Hill) as Harleen’s boss Grunfeld, Fred Melamed (Barry, WandaVision) as Harleen’s co-worker Bob, Mary Holland (Senior Year) as Margaret Pye aka Magpie, and Elias Koteas (Goliath, Chicago PD) as Harleen’s father Nicky Quinzel.
The 7-episode sequence, written and directed by Eli Horowitz will premiere with all episodes obtainable to listeners on January 31, 2023.
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