Christina Ricci Will Star As Harley Quinn In A New Spotify Series
Batman Unburied was a surprise hit for Spotify, even overtaking the Joe Rogan Podcast as the top podcast for the platform. Now, DC looks to be trying to catch lightning in a bottle twice as they’ve greenlit yet another DC story-based podcast. Whether or not it will do as well is yet to be seen, but on July 20th DC announced their next project with Spotify to be Harley Quinn & The Joker: Sound Mind.
Along with this announcement came the exciting news that Christina Ricci will star as one of the titular characters, Harley Quinn. She now joins an elite list of actresses such as Kaley Cuoco, Margot Robbie, and Arleen Sorkin to play the Clown Prince of Crime’s main girl, who has blossomed far beyond being an unnamed henchman. The fact that her name is before The Joker’s in the title and the weight of talent they’re throwing behind the character is intriguing.
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Ricci is currently cast in the new Wednesday series for Netflix and has starred in works such as The Matrix Resurrection, Sleepy Hollow, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. She will star alongside Billy Magnussen as Joker (The Survivor) and Justin Hartley as Batman returning to DC after his Aquaman pilot episode, Smallville, and the Injustice animated movie.
DC released an image of the script and a synopsis that reads as follows:
Harley Quinn & The Joker: Sound Mind promises to tell an original story told from Harley Quinn’s perspective, set in her days at Arkham. When listeners meet Harley, she’s still Dr. Harleen Quinzel, a gifted psychologist at Arkham Asylum in Gotham City determined to help the patients her colleagues have written off. But her dad is sick and in need of an expensive life-saving operation Harleen can’t afford. So, when she meets “Patient J,” a unique criminal who seems to have a strange power over everyone but her, Harleen makes a fateful decision: to use her relationship with J to get what she needs, leading both of them down a dangerous path that will change their lives forever.”
The idea of audio-based storytelling for characters of this magnitude is fascinating. Unfortunately, audio dramas had fallen to the wayside since the old radio dramas that once ruled the airwaves. However, Batman Unburied and Batman The Audio Adventures have proven an audience for it as podcasts have returned the spoken word to the mainstream for listeners. Unburied is already renewed for a second season, so the sky is the limit for DC as they continue to dominate the animated film and the scripted podcast format.
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Source(s): DC