Locke & Key, Acclaimed Graphic Novel by Joe Hill, Reimagined in Audio by a Full Cast Featuring Haley Joel Osment & Tatiana Ma...
October 05 2015 - 9:00AM
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All-Star Performance is Available as a Free
Audio Download at Audible.com
Audible Studios, a production arm of Audible.com, today
announced the release of Locke & Key, a dramatic adaptation of
the critically acclaimed graphic novel series by Joe Hill,
performed by Haley Joel Osment of Entourage fame and Orphan Black’s
Tatiana Maslany. The audiobook, produced in association with IDW
Publishing, includes special appearances by Hill, Kate Mulgrew of
Orange is the New Black, comic book illustrator Gabriel Rodriguez,
and over 50 professional actors. Recorded at a decrepit and
purportedly haunted mansion in New England, Locke & Key’s
state-of-the-art sound design and a powerful original score
heighten the story’s supernatural twists and turns just as the
artwork does in the comic book version. The audiobook is available
as a free audio download from October 5th to November 4th at
audible.com/lockeandkey.
“Listen up: so much of terror is in what you hear, not what you
see,” said Hill. “Those who love the genre have known it for
years…it’s that unseen thing out in the shadows, moving around,
breathing heavily, coming closer, that creeps the beejeezus out of
you. Who doesn’t shudder at the first deep strokes of the JAWS
theme? And when a velociraptor shrieks in rage, who doesn’t feel
the animal prickle in their reptile brain, triggering that instinct
to run? Audible has used the Locke & Key comic book as the
leaping off point for a bold experiment in fear, with listeners as
their victims - I mean, excuse me, test subjects. Be careful. You
might not want to listen to this one with the lights off.”
“Bringing an already iconic graphic novel to life though voice
and sound is an exhilarating artistic challenge,” said Osment. “You
can’t rely on facial expressions or body language – all of the
emotional impact of the performance comes from your ability as an
actor to interpret the story in ways that ring true to the
audience. It’s both terrifying and empowering. I’m proud to be part
of such an innovative and creative audio production, and I think
the end result is a listening experience that really expands the
boundaries of the form.”
“I loved working on Locke & Key because I had never worked
in the format of an audio book before and it was a big challenge as
an actor to embody a character vocally,” said Maslany. “Dodge was
such an exciting, dark, and wonderful character with so many
layers—and to get to play all of the different incarnations of her
and him within one performance was really exciting and was great
fun. It felt like being a kid again.”
“Adapting the uniquely visual Locke & Key into a deeply
engaging listening experience was an artistic challenge we couldn’t
resist,” said Audible EVP and Publisher Beth Anderson. “With
outstanding performances by an all-star cast and a truly visceral
soundscape created by AudioComics that breaks new ground in audio
production, this truly immersive audiobook is sure to thrill fans
of the series and new listeners alike.”
To celebrate the release of the fully dramatized audio
production, Audible has also created an immersive virtual reality
experience that will be showcased at New York Comic Con beginning
October 8. The experience, which will be available at the Audible
booth at the Javits Center, as well as on YouTube 360, lets fans
step into the Locke & Key world and relive a famous scene from
the series via a combination of the graphic novel’s breathtaking
artwork and the intimacy of Audible narration.
In addition to Osment, Maslany, and Mulgrew, among the acclaimed
performers who have narrated works of literature for Audible are
Dan Stevens, Jake Gyllenhaal, Kate Winslet and Tim Robbins.
Audible, the world’s largest seller and producer of downloadable
audiobooks and other spoken-word content, invented and
commercialized the first digital audio player in 1997, and has
since been at the forefront of the explosively growing audiobook
download segment. In 2014, listeners around the world downloaded
1.2 billion hours of audio from Audible.com outlets; Audible
members downloaded an average of more than 17 books over the course
of the year. More than half of current Audible members are
first-time audiobook buyers.
ABOUT AUDIBLE, INC.
Audible, Inc., an Amazon.com, Inc. subsidiary
(NASDAQ:AMZN), is the leading provider of premium digital spoken
audio information and entertainment, offering customers a new way
to enhance and enrich their lives every day. Audible’s mission is
to establish literate listening as a core tool for anyone seeking
to be more productive, better informed, or more thoughtfully
entertained. Audible content includes more than 225,000 audio
programs from leading audiobook publishers, broadcasters,
entertainers, magazine and newspaper publishers, and business
information providers. Audible is also the preeminent provider of
spoken-word audio products for Apple’s iTunes Store.
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