A familiar name, face and voice to DC fans has been added to the cast of Batman Unburied. The new podcast sees Sam Witwer join. Witwer has played multiple roles with DC ; including Davis Bloome in Smallville, Ben Lockwood/Agent Liberty in Supergirl ; and the voice of Orm in the animated film Justice League: Throne of Atlantis. Continuing with his DC involvement his next role will see him playing the role of a cannibalistic serial killer known as The Harvester. With Witwer maintaining his relationship with the DC universe it will be interesting to hear his take on yet another character.
Batman Unburied is a new direction for DC. A podcast that takes a very unique and dark approach to the Dark Knight. Unburied will be available through Spotify and is the first production of it’s kind for DC. The Existing cast list for Unburied includes; Winston Duke as Bruce Wayne, Lance Reddick and Toks Olagundoye as Thomas and Martha Wayne, John Rhys-Davies as Dr. Hunter, Ashly Burch as Vicki Vale, Bruce’s TV journalist ex-girlfriend, Hasan Minhaj as The Riddler, and Jason Isaacs as Alfred Pennyworth.
The project which is being produced in partnership with Spotify and Dark Knight trilogy co-writer David S. Goyer telling an original Batman story. With a fresh take on the Dark Knight in a unique format is an exciting move by DC and it’ll be interesting to see the level of interest this new direction for DC generates and furthermore what it will mean for potential other projects.