Pitch Perfect, Ford V. Ferrari, is aggressively expanding its audio operation as it looks to build more IP that it can develop for film and TV.in partnership iHeartMedia, and is teaming up with the likes of Priyanka Chopra, Jonah Hill and Chernobyl producer Sister for more series.is a twelve-part series from author and journalist Stephan Talty.
“There’s something about the immediacy of a podcast that I love. It brings history into the present moment; it feels like it’s happening now,” Talty said. “ForI spoke to people – Mossad agents, the children of Holocaust survivors – and talked about how this story affected their lives. You can hear the emotion in their voices, the pain and the excitement. That’s not something you get with books in the same way. But you still have all the benefit of all the research you did.
He highlighted that Talty used interviews that he conducted for his 2019 book as well as uncovered new tape in archives in Latvia, where the main villain is from, and spoke to new interview subjects to answer lingering questions. “Diversion mines its own backlist for authors and stories that will have a new life in audio,” he added.