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WEST HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA – (BUSINESS WIRE) – Celeritas, Magnesium Film’s new sci-fi / action / mystery podcast premieres today on Spotify, Apple or wherever you can get your podcasts. Celeritas delivers the kind of engaging story, epic world building, complex characters, and immersive effects normally reserved for big budget television and movies.
Magnesium believes the age of the first narrative podcast has come. For years, podcasts were primarily non-fiction: a universe of interviews, opinions, research, and news. But in a resumption of the radio play, the escape is once again on the dial.
Buckle up and experience a roller coaster ride of man-made black holes, asteroid fields, the disappearance of mankind and the instinctive horror of being buried in space.
On the surface, this is the story of the first manned flight at the speed of light that went horribly wrong – and an astronaut’s desperate attempt to stay alive in an irreconcilable solar system long enough to find out what happened to humanity. But one of the big set pieces is a meditative study of isolation. Astronaut Captain Owen Keating (voiced by Alexander Adell) is thrown into an artificial black hole at the behest of his billionaire employer Gaby (played by Erika Alperin). When he regains consciousness, he will be further from Earth than any person or probe has ever been. It is also immeasurably far in the future. There is purity in absolute solitude, deeply hopeless; the schedule 1 numbing version of a feeling we’ve all become too familiar with, trapped in our homes, masks on our faces, fading memories of the living society we grew up in.
There is something pleasant about it, underlined by transcendent music from well-known ambient bands such as Eluvium, Stars of the Lid and A Winged Victory For The Sullen. Just before the face-melting space-time attack, crashing alarms or exploding fuel tanks get too much, everything stops, haunting sounds swell and that’s it for a while. Floating alone, like in a tank with sensory deprivation, in an airlock – or in quarantine.
At the beginning of the first episode, Captain Keating is forced to dial into a corporate PR event after barely surviving an engine fire. When asked if he was afraid of the ordeal, he says, “Sometimes fear is just a way for your body to tell you to pay a lot of attention because you are about to do something new.” Listen to Celeritas come in. Don’t worry, it’s more popular than you think.
Celeritas Episode 1 premieres today on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you can get your podcasts.
ABOUT MAGNESIUM FILM
Celeritas is produced by Magnesium Film, an independent studio in Austin, TX with offices in West Hollywood, CA. Founded by Pixar and Netflix alums in 2018 to produce original and customized science fiction podcasts, TV and film, Magnesium Film welcomes inquiries from agents and producers at production@magnesiumfilm.com.
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