Audible Drops Trailer for ‘The Big Lie’ Podcast Drama Starring Jon Hamm, Set in ’50s Hollywood Blacklist Era
variety.comTodd Spangler NY Digital EditorAudible will immerse listeners in “The Big Lie,” an original drama series based on the FBI’s real-life infiltration of Hollywood during the 1950’s Red Scare.“The Big Lie,” premiering June 16 on Audible, stars Jon Hamm as FBI special agent Jack Bergin, who sets out to shut down production of “Salt of the Earth” — the only movie named to the so-called Hollywood Blacklist — after he becomes convinced that it’s really a recruiting tool for the Communist Party.
The seven-episode “The Big Lie” will premiere exclusively on Audible, available at this link.“I don’t want to see somebody get killed over this movie,” Hamm’s FBI agent says threateningly in the series trailer, which was just released by Audible. “The Big Lie” also stars Kate Mara, Ana de la Reguera, John Slattery, Bradley Whitford, Lisa Edelstein, Giancarlo Esposito and David Strathairn, alongside Raymond Cruz, Troy Evans, Kirk Baltz, John Getz and Lela Loren.
It’s a production of Audible and podcast studio Fresh Produce Media.Listen to the trailer for “The Big Lie”:The series is created by executive producer John Mankiewicz (“House of Cards,” “Bosch”) from a story by “Salt of the Earth” producer Paul Jarrico, co-written by Jamie Napoli and directed by Aaron Lipstadt (“Bosch,” “Elementary,” “Medium”).
Hamm also executive produces.Spoiler alert: The U.S. government and a hostile Hollywood studio system failed to derail “Salt of the Earth,” which was released in 1954 and dramatized the filmmakers’ pro-labor, pro-feminist beliefs.
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