Warner Bros. has announced the next in their burgeoning line of scripted podcasts starring legendary characters from the DC Universe. The Flash: Escape The Midnight Circus is coming soon to digital podcast services and will star Max Greenfield (New Girl) as the Scarlet Speedster.
The series is set to launch on Apple Podcasts on Monday, July 10 and centres on Barry as he accidentally seemingly stumbles in to an alternate timeline where he is forced to take part in a televised tournament.
Check out the official trailer for Midnight Circus in the player below:
The official synopsis for the story reads:
Barry Allen is at the height of his powers and fame, firmly ensconced as Central City’s favorite hero – but when being The Flash forces him to let Iris down one time too many, she decides to call it quits. Undeterred, Barry figures he can use the speed force to go back in time and set things right. But something goes wrong, Barry tumbles into a new dimension, finding himself in a small bedroom with Captain Cold, his powers gone. Cold tells Barry that he’s an unwitting participant in a televised tournament, THE MIDNIGHT CIRCUS, which pits humans, superheroes and rogues against one another in life-or-death games of chance. Survive the competition and Barry earns his freedom, recreate the conditions of his original transformation, and return to his own timeline. But to do so, he’ll have to rely solely on his wits. And if that wasn’t hard enough, he soon finds himself facing his toughest opponent yet: Iris West.
The series follows the critical successes of Max’s Batman: The Audio Adventures and brilliant Spotify series Batman Unburied and Harley Quinn and The Joker: Sound Mind.