| Wolverine | |
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| Presentation | |
| Starring | Richard Armitage |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Written by | Benjamin Percy |
| Directed by | Brendan Baker[1] |
| Voices | Richard Armitage |
| Language | English |
| Length | 30 minutes |
| Production | |
| Production | |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 20 |
| Publication | |
| Original release | March 12, 2018 (2018-03-12) – September 1, 2019 (2019-09-01) |
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| Provider | Stitcher Premium[3] |
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| Website | www |
Marvel's Wolverine (subtitledThe Long Night for Season 1[4] andThe Lost Trail for Season 2) is anaudio dramapodcast series featuring theMarvel Comics characterWolverine. The show is Marvel's first scripted podcast[3] produced by Marvel New Media andStitcher.[2] Marvel had previously retold comic book stories through audio in 1974 with aFantastic Four radio series and aSpider-Man: Rock Reflections of a Superhero concept album.[5] It was dubbed one of the Best Podcasts of 2018 byApple while also winning the 2019iHeartRadio Award for Best Scripted Podcast. A comic adaptation was published by Marvel due to the podcast's success.[6]
In 2021,Marvel New Media andSirius XM announcedMarvel's Wastelanders, a series of podcasts set in a version of theOld Man Logan universe.[7]Marvel's Wastelanders: Wolverine launched in June 2022, featuringRobert Patrick as the voice of Wolverine.[8]
Federal agents are led to the fictional town of Burns,Alaska working a serial murder case. Logan is the main suspect. The agents will uncover Logan's dual identity and the corruption in the small town.[9] Logan is attempting to escape from society and over the course of the series recover some of his lost memories. He is, however, drawn to execute "frontier justice." Located nearby is the Aurora cult, who may or may not have power or be involved in the murders.[2]
The second season,The Lost Trail, finds Wolverine inNew Orleans, looking for an ex-lover when humans andmutants start disappearing. Assisted by a young boy, Logan investigates the disappearances, which brings them to encounter "biker gangs", "Cajun thieves", one of whom isGambit and "a world of wonders that defies explanation". The duo find a refuge called Greenhaven led by a powerful mutant,Jason Wyngarde.
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| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Chapter 1: A Thousand Ways to Die in Alaska" | Brendan Baker | Benjamin Percy | September 12, 2018 |
| 2 | "Chapter 2: Goodnight Nobody" | September 12, 2018 | ||
| 3 | "Chapter 3: Underground" | September 19, 2018 | ||
| 4 | "Chapter 4: Hunters" | September 26, 2018 | ||
| 5 | "Chapter 5: Into the Woods" | October 3, 2018 | ||
| 6 | "Chapter 6: Archaeology of the Night" | October 10, 2018 | ||
| 7 | "Chapter 7: You're Next" | October 17, 2018 | ||
| 8 | "Chapter 8: The Red Sunset" | October 24, 2018 | ||
| 9 | "Chapter 9: The Changing" | October 31, 2018 | ||
| 10 | "Chapter 10: No Escape" | November 7, 2018 |
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Chapter 1: Among the Missing" | Brendan Baker | Benjamin Percy | March 25, 2019[10] |
| 2 | "Chapter 2: The Forgotten" | July 7, 2019 | ||
| 3 | "Chapter 3: The Cold Blooded" | July 14, 2019 | ||
| 4 | "Chapter 4: Into the Swamp" | July 21, 2019 | ||
| 5 | "Chapter 5: Riverboat Revival" | July 28, 2019 | ||
| 6 | "Chapter 6: Blood on the Bayou" | August 4, 2019 | ||
| 7 | "Chapter 7: Welcome to Greenhaven" | August 11, 2019 | ||
| 8 | "Chapter 8: The Proposition" | August 18, 2019 | ||
| 9 | "Chapter 9: Greenhaven is Everywhere" | August 25, 2019 | ||
| 10 | "Chapter 10: Deal With the Devil" | September 1, 2019 |
Marvel New Media andStitcher announced on December 5, 2017Wolverine: The Long Night was in production for a spring 2018 launch on Stitcher Premium and a wider release in fall 2018. Sound design for the podcast was by Brendan Baker and Chloe Prasinos with some of the recording taking place outside in the appropriate terrain and with actors interacting and moving together.[11] Producers are Chloe Wilson and Daniel Fink for Marvel and Jenny Radelet for Stitcher.[2] The first season's first two episodes debuted on March 12, 2018, on Stitcher with two episode per week to follow; it ended its first season with ten episodes in early May.[15][16] A teaser trailer for the podcast was also released to promote it.
On November 5, 2018, Marvel and Sticher announced that second season calledWolverine: The Lost Trail has started production withGambit andMastermind being added to the story for a first quarter 2019 debut.[13] With the release of its trailer, Marvel indicated that the release date for the second season to be March 25, 2019 with Percy and Baker returning as writer for the season with associate director and sound designer Chloe Prasinos.[10]
After listening to three episodes, Beth Elderkin ofIo9 found the podcast to be "... off on a promising (albeit imperfect) note." "It might not be perfect, and some of the characters and setups might verge on the ridiculous, but it's exciting to experience a comic book universe story in this format."[15] In 2018,Apple named it as one of the "Best Podcasts of the Year" while being in their Top 25 Most Downloaded Podcasts of the Year and Top 25 Most Downloaded New Podcasts of the Year.[17] During the 2019iHeartRadio Podcast Awards, it won the Best Scripted Podcast.[18]
The Long Night won Best Scripted Podcast at the inauguraliHeartRadio Podcast Awards in January 2019,[19] as well as a 2019Webby Award for Best Original Music/Sound Design in a Podcast.[20] In addition,Apple includedThe Long Night on its Best of 2018 podcasts list.[21]
Due to the success ofThe Long Night, acomic adaptation was written by the podcast writerBenjamin Percy. Joining Percy on the adaptation was artist Marcio Takara and cover artist Rafael Albuquerque for issue 1 released in January 2019.[22] The adaptation was a five issue mini-series in which two chapters were truncated to fill an issue.[23]
A Spanish-language version ofThe Long Night podcast —La Larga Noche — was released in September 2021 as part of Marvel's podcasting partnership withSiriusXM.[24] A Spanish-language translation of the comic book adaption was previously released byPanini Cómics Latinoamérica in Argentina in 2019.[25] TheWolverine: La Larga Noche podcast is directed by Alejandra López with sound design by Brendan Baker and Chloe Prasinos and features the voices ofJoaquín Cosío as Wolverine, Brigitte Kali Canales as Agent Sally Pierce,Guillermo García as Agent Tad Marshall,Bruno Bichir as Sheriff Ridge, andRicardo Chávez as Nicholas Prophet.[26] Although Percy's originalThe Long Night script was used as the basis forLa Larga Noche, about half of the dialogue was reinterpreded to better fit the Spanish language. Although the voice actors speak a range of Spanish dialects, the series was voiced primarily inMexican Spanish.[27]
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Capítulo Uno: Mil Maneras de Morir en Alaska" | Alejandra López | Benjamin Percy | September 21, 2021 |
| 2 | "Capítulo Dos: Goodnight Nobody" | September 21, 2021 | ||
| 3 | "Capítulo Tres: Bajo Tierra" | September 27, 2021 | ||
| 4 | "Capítulo Cuatro: Cazadores" | October 4, 2021 | ||
| 5 | "Capítulo Cinco: Hacia el Bosque" | October 11, 2021 | ||
| 6 | "Capítulo Seis: Arqueología de la Noche" | October 18, 2021 | ||
| 7 | "Capítulo Siete: Tu Sigues" | October 25, 2021 | ||
| 8 | "Capítulo Ocho: El Atardecer Rojo" | November 1, 2021 | ||
| 9 | "Capítulo Nueve: El Cambio" | November 8, 2021 | ||
| 10 | "Capítulo Diez: Sin Escape" | November 15, 2021 |
Benjamin Percy teased in a 2017 interview withMashable thatWolverine: The Long Night could be the start of a whole new interconnected universe, which he called the Marvel Podcast Universe.[28]
On August 14, 2019, Marvel and Stitcher announced that a 10-episode podcast adaptation ofKurt Busiek'sMarvels would premiere in Fall 2019 with the first season focusing on the aftermath of theFantastic Four's battle withGalactus and Phil Sheldon and his crew exploring the world of superheroes.[29]
