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EXCLUSIVE: iHeartMedia has entered into a multi-year first-look improvement woody connected each projects developed by CitizenSkull, nan companies announced today.
The business establishes an ongoing, multi-project narration focused connected processing and producing premium scripted audio contented successful nan elevated genre abstraction and an accent connected franchise-ready intelligence property.
The first task nether nan woody will beryllium Prodigal, a sci-fi thriller created and written by New York Times bestselling comic book duo Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly, group to merchandise this fall. Kevin Arbouet is showrunning, pinch Sean M. Butler and Mark Myers exec producing for CitizenSkull. Butler is besides serving arsenic producer, on pinch Paul Yurick of The Future Party, pinch Boye Akolade arsenic co-EP.
“We built this business pinch iHeart to create elevated genre storytelling that doesn’t conscionable unrecorded successful audio, but has nan imaginable to grow crossed platforms,” said CitizenSkull’s Butler. “‘Prodigal’ is precisely nan type of bold, high-concept IP we want to bring to market—grounded successful characteristic but designed to scale.”
iHeartPodcasts President Will Pearson said, “The woody underscores iHeartMedia’s continued committedness to high-end scripted audio, aligning pinch top-tier imaginative talent to create original IP pinch multiplatform franchise potential.”
