Kerry Washington and her Emmy-winning Simpson Street Productions, along with premium content studio and podcast network QCODE as well as Audible Inc., the leading creator, and provider of premium audio storytelling, announced today that Academy Award-nominated and Emmy winner Laurence Fishburne and SAG winner Daniel Dae Kim have been cast in the upcoming Audible Original podcast series Prophecy.
Washington is also set to star and executive produce under the Simpson Street banner, along with her head of development, Pilar Savone. The series is Simpson Street’s first Audible Original production. Automatik’s Brian Kavanaugh Jones, Fred Berger, and Justin Levy are also producing.
Created, written, and directed by Randy McKinnon, Prophecy is an 8-episode audio series that will debut exclusively on Audible later this year. In Prophecy, when a series of unexplainable events happens simultaneously around the world, Virginia (Kerry Washington) – a hydrologist, Daniel (casting to be announced) -a British Zoo veterinarian, and Jonah (Daniel Dae Kim) – a commercial diver, find themselves at the head of each phenomena under investigation by government agent, Thomas (Laurence Fishburne); but as they fight for survival, they soon realize that they are all connected in this contemporary, Biblical reimagining of the Virgin Mary, Daniel in the Lions’ Den, and Jonah and the Whale.
Prophecy is part of a three-look deal between Audible and Simpson Street that also includes the upcoming podcasts Between Me and You and The Last Black Queen.