Anthony Mackie, Ariana DeBose, and John Leguizamo reveal why they joined Andy Weir's sci-fi audio drama 'Exoplanet' (interview)
A sci-fi thriller executive produced by Andy Weir (#1 bestselling author of Project Hail Mary, The Martian), with an all-star cast led by Anthony Mackie, Ariana DeBose and John Leguizamo.
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- Such is the case with " Exoplanet," Audible Original’s new 7-episode science fiction audio drama executive produced by Weir and penned by Percy.
- But one of his friends gave me a book by Walter Mosley and one by Octavia Butler, and I got hooked into sci-fi and the future." "From 'Back to the Future' to 'Aliens,' the future was such an idea of what was going to be out there.
- I thought that was an incredible challenge." DeBose portrays the Wild Blue Yonder's confident First Officer Becca Bang, who’s stranded in a temporal mystery that might engulf her at any moment.
We hooked up with Mackie, DeBose, and Lequizamo to learn more about this renaissance of audio dramas and what attracted them to board Weir's sci-fi thriller.
“It was Anthony and Ariana being in it that really pumped me up, and of course Andy Weir," he recalls regarding his portrayal of Science Officer Logan Bowers.
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- The only thing more arrogant than wanting to be president is standing up and saying, 'Yeah, I can go to space.' That sounds crazy to me." "Exoplanet" was released by Audible on Nov.
- It just hit me in that right zeitgeist, at that right little point." "As a poor kid, there was no YouTube or cell phones, and we didn’t have computers," reminisces Leguizamo.
- Its planet-hopping space disaster narrative sees the crew of the starship Wild Blue Yonder hit a quantum anomaly, forcing their ship to crash-land onto a deadly exoplanet.
- (Image credit: Audible) Leguizamo's New York City childhood was influenced by absorbing classic radio dramas of the past, which primed him for this special Audible project.
- "Then when I got the theme, that it was something relevant today and makes you think about computers and technology taking over and making us obsolete.
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