Two years ago, Marvel announced its very first scripted podcast, Wolverine: The Long Night, which later got a sequel series called Wolverine: The Lost Trail on the Stitcher Premium podcast app. That project was evidently a success, because Marvel has just announced a new podcast initiative, but apparently it wasn’t enough of a success to stay behind the paywall on Stitcher. In a press release today, Marvel revelaed that it has entered a “major multi-year deal” with SiriusXM and Pandora to create new scripted and unscripted podcast shows involving “established Marvel characters.”
In a nod to… every other multimedia venture that Marvel makes, these podcasts will tell individual stories that all tie in together for a larger team-up story. The first four shows, each 10-episodes long, will follow Wolverine, Hawkeye, Black Widow, and Star-Lord, followed by a fifth show in each those three Avengers decide to work with a guy who lives in space for some reason. There will also be shows specifically about “Marvel franchises,” “regular talk shows,” and an exploration of Marvel’s “rich history through a modern-day lens of pop culture.” Basically, Marvel is going all in on podcasts, which is something it had already done recently but is now doing with bigger aspirations.
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Very good news, because these were great. The Lost Trail is especially good and Richard Armitage is really damn fine as Logan. I kinda wish they took him into the MCU, but I know that’s a pipe dream since he’s barely 3 years younger than Jackman.
That’s disappointing. I thought the podcasts would be more like “Wolverine chatting with Pete Holmes” or something.I would listen to the heck out of that.
You mean, you would watch that… again?
I miss “The Pete Holmes Show.”
I would love an in-universe interview with superheroes. Like Inside the Actor’s Studio but for superheroes.
Host: Now there are rumours that you and Cyclops have a, uh, strained relationship. Is that true?Wolverine: [chuckles] Don’t believe everything you read. We’re both passionate men, and that passion can spill out sometimes, but no, we love working together.
Deadpool hosts Comedy Bang Bang I assume?
‘Me Hulk, and me enraged to be Conan O’Brien’s friend.’
Deadpool and Wolverine: My Favorite Murder.
Doc Savage Lovecast
Adam Warlock Ruins Everything
Well that tends to happen when he becomes Magus.
Captain America Wrote a Porno
Conan the Barbarian Needs a Friend
This Latverian Life
I hope Star Wars follow suit so Serial can get to the the bottom of Greedo/Solo: Murder or Self Defense.