Several years after the surprise finale of The Walking Dead, Skybound is getting back in the post-apocalyptic game. IGN can exclusively reveal the release date and voice cast for Impact Winter, a new audio drama series being released through Audible.
Impact Winter is created by Carnival Row' Travis Beacham, produced in a partnership between Skybound and Anonymous Content and coproduced by Cliff Roberts (The Midnight Sky). This survival horror series is set in a world ravaged by a devastating comet strike. With the sun little more than a distant memory, vampires now reign supreme. Only one sword-wielding vampire hunter named Darcy holds the key to humanity's survival.
You can check out Audible's teaser trailer for the new series in the video player above or embedded below:
The voice cast for Impact Winter includes a number of Game of Thrones and HBO veterans. That lineup includes Himesh Patel (Don’t Look Up, Yesterday, Tenet), Holliday Grainger (The Borgias, My Cousin Rachel), David Gyasi (Interstellar, Panic), Esme Creed-Miles (Hanna), Liam Cunningham (Game of Thrones), Bella Ramsey (Game of Thrones), Caroline Ford (Carnival Row), Chloe Pirrie (The Queen’s Gambit, The Crown), Indira Varma (Carnival Row, Games of Thrones) and Freddy Carter (Shadow and Bone, Pennyworth).
Here's Audible's official description of the series:
More than a decade after a comet strike has inflicted an “impact winter” and blacked out the sun, vampires have emerged in the darkness to take over what remains of the world. Humans have fled underground, clinging to an existence that feels increasingly doomed. One vampire hunter, a young woman named Darcy, is lured from her bunker beneath an ancient castle by a powerful vampire overlord and thrust into a fight for her people’s future. From Travis Beacham, the mind behind Carnival Row and Pacific Rim, this action, romance, coming-of-age story delivers an unprecedented sonic experience via binaural action sequences, original music and incomparable sound design, all of which come together to bring to life this post-apocalyptic world in visceral detail.
Impact Winter will release exclusively on Audible on February 17, 2022. You can head to Audible's Impact Winter page to learn more about the series and add it to your wish-list.
Impact Winter isn't the only Audible Original series with some major comic book pedigree. The company has been busy adapting Neil Gaiman's seminal DC series The Sandman into an audio drama. That series features an impressive voice cast of its own, including James McAvoy as Dream and Kat Dennings as Death.
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Impact Winter is created by Carnival Row' Travis Beacham, produced in a partnership between Skybound and Anonymous Content and coproduced by Cliff Roberts (The Midnight Sky). This survival horror series is set in a world ravaged by a devastating comet strike. With the sun little more than a distant memory, vampires now reign supreme. Only one sword-wielding vampire hunter named Darcy holds the key to humanity's survival.
You can check out Audible's teaser trailer for the new series in the video player above or embedded below:
The voice cast for Impact Winter includes a number of Game of Thrones and HBO veterans. That lineup includes Himesh Patel (Don’t Look Up, Yesterday, Tenet), Holliday Grainger (The Borgias, My Cousin Rachel), David Gyasi (Interstellar, Panic), Esme Creed-Miles (Hanna), Liam Cunningham (Game of Thrones), Bella Ramsey (Game of Thrones), Caroline Ford (Carnival Row), Chloe Pirrie (The Queen’s Gambit, The Crown), Indira Varma (Carnival Row, Games of Thrones) and Freddy Carter (Shadow and Bone, Pennyworth).
Here's Audible's official description of the series:
More than a decade after a comet strike has inflicted an “impact winter” and blacked out the sun, vampires have emerged in the darkness to take over what remains of the world. Humans have fled underground, clinging to an existence that feels increasingly doomed. One vampire hunter, a young woman named Darcy, is lured from her bunker beneath an ancient castle by a powerful vampire overlord and thrust into a fight for her people’s future. From Travis Beacham, the mind behind Carnival Row and Pacific Rim, this action, romance, coming-of-age story delivers an unprecedented sonic experience via binaural action sequences, original music and incomparable sound design, all of which come together to bring to life this post-apocalyptic world in visceral detail.
Impact Winter will release exclusively on Audible on February 17, 2022. You can head to Audible's Impact Winter page to learn more about the series and add it to your wish-list.
Impact Winter isn't the only Audible Original series with some major comic book pedigree. The company has been busy adapting Neil Gaiman's seminal DC series The Sandman into an audio drama. That series features an impressive voice cast of its own, including James McAvoy as Dream and Kat Dennings as Death.
Jesse is a mild-mannered staff writer for IGN. Allow him to lend a machete to your intellectual thicket by following @jschedeen on Twitter.
Continue reading...