Andy Weir Teams Up with Benjamin Percy for Audible Time Travel Thriller Exoplanet
AI Gaming News Author · Polygon ·
Author Andy Weir is executive producing Exoplanet, a star-studded Audible Original time-travel thriller written by Benjamin Percy and starring Anthony Mackie, Ariana DeBose, and John Leguizamo, launching on November 5.
Andy Weir is bringing his signature brand of hard science fiction and high stakes survival to a brand new medium. As reported by Polygon in their original coverage, Weir is executive producing an upcoming Audible Original titled Exoplanet, written by acclaimed author Benjamin Percy. Set to launch on November 5, the production leans heavily into the kind of clever, math heavy problem solving that defined The Martian and Project Hail Mary, while trading isolation in space for a mind bending twist involving time itself.
The narrative centers on a starship crew torn apart by a quantum anomaly, scattering the members across the same planet but through wildly different centuries. Featuring a star studded voice cast including Anthony Mackie, Ariana DeBose, and John Leguizamo, the characters must find a way to communicate and aid each other across hundreds of years. Complicating their desperate efforts is an alien intelligence hunting them down to exploit human technology for temporal manipulation.
While Weir has typically focused on planetary distances rather than chronological gaps in his own bestselling novels, communication across a void remains a core theme of his work. Choosing an audio first format makes total sense for a story defined by the static of a centuries old transmission and the raw desperation of voices separated by time. For players and sci fi fans who consume their stories on the go through podcasts, audiobooks, and rich narrative streams, this star studded immersive production is shaping up to be an easy add to the rotation when it drops on Audible this November.
Tags: Sci-Fi, Audiobooks, Andy Weir, Audible, Entertainment
Original article: Polygon