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Owen Wilson attends a 2022 film premiere in New York.
A brand new scripted podcast sequence is utilizing the voice of Hollywood actor Owen Wilson to resurrect San Antonio adventurer, businessman and inventor Tom Slick, whom the mission’s creators tout as “the most attention-grabbing man you’ve by no means heard of.”
Dallas-born Wilson (The Royal Tenenbaums, Midnight in Paris) will star alongside Sissy Spacek and Schuyler Fisk in Tom Slick: Thriller Hunter, distributed by Alamo Metropolis-based media firm iHeartMedia. The eight-part sequence will debut Thursday, July 18, through iHeartMedia and different retailers, in line with a web-based promo package.
Written by Jeb Stuart (Die Exhausting, Vikings: Valhalla) and Caroline Slaughter (Astray, LAMB), the sequence will chronicle the lifetime of Slick, who rubbed shoulders with celebrities similar to Howard Hughes and Jimmy Stewart and had a globetrotting fascination with cryptozoology, together with a number of excursions to hunt out the Yeti — some with the backing of the San Antonio Zoo.
“Tom Slick’s epic story shall be instructed by way of hidden tapes discovered by his granddaughter, Liv Slick, (Schuyler Fisk) buried in her mom, Claire Slick’s (Sissy Spacek) attic,” in line with iHeartMedia’s description of the podcast. “As they pay attention collectively, they are going to uncover unbelievable tales impressed by precise occasions from Tom Slick’s life, which embody the kidnapping of his stepfather by the notorious financial institution robber Machine Gun Kelly, a covert OSS operation (predecessor to the CIA) to cease a Nazi spy ring in Latin America, and his relentless hunt for the elusive Yeti.”
Past having his identify on a far West Aspect park, Slick is finest recognized round San Antonio for the groundbreaking enterprise and analysis ventures he launched after inheriting his father’s wildcatting fortune. In the course of the Nineteen Forties, the oil inheritor established San Antonio’s Southwest Analysis Basis along with the group that later rebranded because the Texas Biomedical Analysis Institute. Years later, he developed the Thoughts Science Basis, one other SA-based analysis enterprise.
Slick, who died in a 1962 aircraft crash, was additionally an avid collector of recent artwork. His assortment has been exhibited on the McNay Artwork Museum. Historical past buffs be warned, nonetheless. As if Slick’s life wasn’t fascinating sufficient by itself, iHeartMedia warned in a disclaimer that a few of Tom Slick: Thriller Hunter’s “story parts, names and characters have been altered for dramatic functions.”
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