EXCLUSIVE: Rodney Barnes, exec producer of HBO’s Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, is prepping a horror podcast devoted to legends and myths stemming from black folklore. The writer/pro…
with each episode focusing on a singular, terrifying ghost story, from various periods of American history.'Infamous' Podcast Featuring Stories Of Girls Gone Wild & NXIVM Set From Campside Media & Sony Music
For instance, legend has it that a black goat farmer named Oscar Washburn moved his family to a residence just north of a bridge in a Maryland known today as Goatman’s Bridge. It got that name because it was haunted by a half-man, half-goat figure that Oscar Washburn sold tickets to see. Until horror ensued.Barnes said that he has loved “digging into” these stories. “We’ve got some deliciously terrifying stories to tell, and an exciting list of folks joining in on the fun.
The series is set to launch in 2023 with Campside and At Will yet to select a distributor for the podcast. The companies are already lining up TV adaptations of some of the stories. Campside co-founder Adam Hoff said, “We’d been merely hoping to find a great story that Rodney might want to start as a podcast and then adapt into a TV show; instead, he unleashed an always-on concept that would reach an underserved audience and generate potentially dozens of TV and film concepts.”
Campside initially started talking to Barnes about a potential adaptation of one of its other podcasts, which include“As a comics nerd, I’ve long admired Rodney’s writing. Few creators can cross boundaries and genres as ably as he can––he’s got this monster sense of imagination. Plus, he happens to sound absolutely incredible on the mic,” added Campside co-founder Matthew Shaer.
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