Marvel and SiriusXM have announced that the next chapter in the Marvel’s Wastelanders audio drama epic is set to arrive on Monday, January 10th with the premiere of Marvel’s Wastelanders: Black Widow.
The third instalment in the post-apocalyptic audio series after Marvel’s Wastelanders: Star-Lord and Marvel’s Wastelanders: Hawkeye, the new series features Oscar-winner Susan Sarandon in the title role alongside a voice cast that includes Eva Amurri (Saved!), Nate Corddry (Mom), Amber Gray (Hadestown), Melissa Gilbert (Little House on the Prairie), Chasten Harmon (Elementary), Michael Imperioli (The Sopranos) and Justin Kirk (Weeds).
Check out the trailer for here, along with the official synopsis…
The story begins almost 30 years after The Day the Villains Won (aka V-Day), when Helen Black arrives at her new apartment in The Onar, a 161-story apartment complex in what used to be Midtown Manhattan. Owned and operated by S.H.I.E.L.D., The Onar has become the very embodiment of the dystopic wealth and inequality that’s engulfed New York City ever since V-Day. A collection of uber-rich families – including the media magnate Burge family – occupy the opulent penthouses in the DecaDomes, The Onar’s highest ten stories. Helen Black’s apartment is located in the much more humble “100 Block”. When her nosy neighbor Dr. Brian Mizuno asks Helen (through the paper-thin walls) what brought her here, she cryptically alludes to “problems with an ex…”.
On the same day that Helen moves into her apartment, Lisa Cartwright reports for her first day as a Junior Residential Security Analyst for Panopticog Solutions, a private security company hired by S.H.I.E.L.D. to monitor the residents of The Onar (without their knowledge or consent). Lisa is assigned to surveil Helen’s corner of The 100 Block, and quickly discovers that Helen Black is not at all who she says she is.
Marvel’s Wastelanders: Black Widow will premiere on Monday, January 10th 2022.