The sci-fi podcast Carrier is heading to the big screen! Deadline reports that Cynthia Erivo will be reprising her role as Raylene in a film adaptation of the podcast, which she will also produce.
According to Deadline, Carrier creator Dan Blank will write and direct. This will be audio studio QCode’s first feature film adaptation, reports the outlet, although more “pod-to-screen adaptations” are currently in development. There’s no word on what those might be, but QCode’s current line-up of shows include the Rami Malek-starring Blackout, about a nation-wide blackout, and The Edge of Sleep, about a global epidemic where sleep causes death.
Here’s an official synopsis from QCode’s website:
What happens when a truck driver picks up a loaded trailer, but has no idea what’s really inside? Tony, Grammy, and Emmy award winner Cynthia Erivo journeys down a dark and lonely highway in this original scripted thriller from Qcode and creator Dan Blank. With immersive audio techniques that create a dimensional listening experience, the audience is strongly advised to use caution, wear headphones if possible, and listen… carefully.
All 7 episodes are currently available on Apple Podcasts. There’s no word yet on a storyline, additional cast members, or a production schedule. In the meantime, Erivo can currently be seen starring in HBO’s adaptation of Stephen King’s The Outsider.
@Callahan: I only have fairly dim memories of Gardner Fox, mostly suppressed now, but yes, you only need to read one short story of his to get the idea. I mentioned Nick Lowe’s “The Well-Tempered Plot Device” on Niall Alexander’s latest British Genre Fiction post: since Gardner Fox is also mentioned in this peerless classic of literary criticism, I would advise that you read the original in Ansible 46 to fully appreciate the nuances of plotting in fantasy novels.
After reading a few Conan knockoffs, I generally avoided them, and certainly avoided this series when it came out. They all seemed to delight in going into detail about sex, which had previously been taboo, and made a point of mentioning not only that the women were scantily clothed, but also all seemed to compare women’s breasts to types of fruit. I always wondered if they were copying each other when they did this, or if this was some sort of literary (if that word is appropriate in this case) type of parallel evolution…
The name Gordon Fox rang a bell, though, and you answered the question why–even though we were primarily a Marvel household, we had quite a few DC comics as well, and I am sure I was exposed to his comics work.
Well, yeah, in The Sword of the Sorceror, after Kothar gets his Atlantean, um, old magic sword, the sorceress Red Lori is imprisoned in silver. I think it’s covered in Alchemy 101.
I like a world where getting a magic sword is a big deal, not just an expected perk of leveling; where you don’t throw your magic sword in the garbage or sell it off in town when you find an inevitable upgrade.
@@.-@: Inflation really hit the world of metallurgic sorcery hard. Back in the day, you had Excalibur, Glamdring, Tyrfing, Stormbringer and a couple of others. These days, it’s foundries as far as the eye can see…
One of the things I like about Goodman Games’ Dungeon Crawl Classics system — and I like a LOT about it — is that there’s no such thing as a Longsword +1. Every magic sword is a BIG DEAL, with a name and a personality and it is not something to be trifled with!
Fox, whatever else his strengths and weaknesses were, clearly was suffering from a nigh-terminal case of Dumb Name Syndrome. “Kothar” is marginally respectable, but “Afgorkon”? “Phronalom”? Sadly, it’s not an uncommon affliction.
But having said that, Kothar was able to roister in a tavern, steal from a wizard, enter an alternate dimension and fight a demon in fewer pages than some current authors would use to describe a not-very-elaborate meal.
@7: Kothar is apparently a West Semitic deity equivalent to Hephaestus, whose name approximately translates as “skill”. Pseudo-mythological names tend to sound better than completely fictional ones.
@9: Yes, unless you’re Jack Vance, Clark Ashton Smith or Lord Dunsany.