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Audible announced a multi-project, first-look development and production deal with Treefort Media to produce original scripted audio series. Three of them have been confirmed and are featuring Juliette Lewis, Christian Slater, Ethan Hawke, and Rainn Wilson.
The three newly greenlit projects are Killing Hollywood: The Cotton Club Murder featuring Juliette Lewis, Christian Slater, and Rainn Wilson launching exclusively on Audible on May 27, 2021**; **Fishpriest featuring Ethan Hawke; and Moriarty featuring Dominic Monaghan from the Lord of the Rings films.
Here are some longer descriptions of the three Audible exclusives:
KILLING HOLLYWOOD: THE COTTON CLUB MURDER
Based on a shocking true story, this drama series stars Academy Award- and Emmy-nominated actress Juliette Lewis; Emmy-nominated actor Rainn Wilson; and Golden Globe Award-winning actor Christian Slater. When cocaine queen-pin Lanie Jacobs (Lewis) ditches Miami for Los Angeles, she meets Roy Radin (Wilson)—a washed-up theater producer with big dreams (and even bigger demons). Together, they team up for a shot at greatness: A stake in The Cotton Club, a star-studded film produced by Robert Evans (Slater), the (in)famous Hollywood legend behind The Godfather and Chinatown. But as egos, ambitions, and suspicions collide, it isn’t long before the deal turns deadly. The series is written by Daniel Thomsen and Jeffery Baker and produced in association with The Komack Company.
- FISHPRIEST
Ethan Hawke leads in the dark and gritty, scripted police procedural and crime drama. Set in1993, Tommy “Fishpriest” Barth (Hawke) is a bounty hunter and former undercover cop in the Bronx. Just when he thinks he’s pulling his life back together, a dangerous crime syndicate reappears in the city and threatens to tear his life and his city apart. The series is created and written by Mike Batistick.
- MORIARTY
He stands among the most infamous villains in all of literary history…but what if Sherlock Holmes’s famous arch-nemesis, Professor James Moriarty, was actually an innocent man? Moriarty is set in an alternative Sherlock Holmes universe in which Holmes is actually a brilliant but evil force, and his nemesis, Moriarty, is a good man who is forced into the underworld after Sherlock frames him for murder. Dominic Monaghan stars as Professor Moriarty in this scripted series which explores what happens when traditionally good and evil characters are inverted and nothing is as it seems. Moriarty presents a complex look and an empathetic voice to one of fiction’s most notorious characters. The series is written by Charles Kindinger.