EXCLUSIVE: Nick and Jon Hamm’s Free Flip Leisure has set a hybrid game-podcast thriller concerning the Chilly Battle as its subsequent undertaking.
The indie has partnered with Spotify on Chilly Tapes: Winter Over, which it has described as a “true-crime fashion audio recreation set within the frozen and remoted world of an Antarctic winter.”
Listeners have to determine the thriller by wading via a cache of audio recordsdata, together with police interviews, sufferer’s audio diaries and proof within the immersive collection.
The story follows the intertwined lives and relationships of a small group of worldwide scientists and crew stationed on Bowers Wilson, a distant analysis station in Antarctica. Protagonist DCI Tessa McCallister will try to resolve the mysterious demise of 33-year-old behavioural scientist Andrew Fairfield from 9000 miles away within the UK. Those that appropriately determine the assassin can enter a contest to have an opportunity of profitable a £10,000 ($12,500) money prize and the title of ‘British Tremendous Sleuth 2024’, which will probably be awarded at Crime Con London 2024.
Free Flip mentioned it collaborated with numerous professionals to develop the script and storyline, together with cops, polar adventurers and researchers.
“For anybody who loves nothing greater than a brand new binge-able true-crime podcast, and concurrently fancies their likelihood at fixing a fancy and intriguing crime, Chilly Tapes is for them,” mentioned Sian Williams, present director and producer at Free Flip Leisure. “We’ve introduced the authenticity of an actual life police investigation along with the distinctive expertise and soundscape of an Antarctic analysis base to create one thing immersive and completely addictive.”
Free Flip was not too long ago behind Audible sci-fi drama podcast The Salvation starring Ariyon Bakare, Rose Leslie and Toby Jones.