Tom Hiddleston’s Performance of J. G. Ballard’s High-Rise Now Available as an Audio Download at Audible.com
27 March 2015 - 12:00AM
Business Wire
Audible Studios, a production arm of Audible.com, today
announced the release of Tom Hiddleston’s vivid interpretation of
J. G. Ballard’s unnerving dystopian novel, High-Rise. The narration
by The Avengers star Hiddleston, which anticipates the release of a
new film adaptation of the novel in the fall, is available for
download at www.audible.com/HighRise.
“I spent last summer holed up as Dr. Laing on the 25th floor of
the 'High Rise,' as brought to life on film by Ben Wheatley and Amy
Jump,” said Hiddleston. “The book was always, necessarily, our
cornerstone. Ahead of the release of the film, it was great to go
back to J. G. Ballard's original text and to read it aloud. Ballard
was prescient about so many things: our seduction by (and reliance
on) technology; our attempted colonization of the sky; and his
particular, distinguishing implication that modern civilization is
perhaps only a few neighborly disagreements away from collapse and
chaos.”
“Because Tom was already immersed in the film version of this
modern classic, he was the perfect actor to create the audio
version,” said Audible Publisher and EVP Beth Anderson. “His
performance is nothing short of remarkable, and listeners will be
riveted by how viscerally he brings the terror and mayhem of this
story to life.”
The forthcoming film adaptation of High-Rise stars Hiddleston,
Jeremy Irons, Sienna Miller and Elisabeth Moss. High-Rise was first
published in 1975.
In addition to Hiddleston, among the acclaimed performers who
have narrated works of literature for Audible are Dan Stevens, Jake
Gyllenhaal, Kate Winslet and Tim Robbins. In 2013, Audible Studios
won its first Grammy Award, for its production of Janis Ian’s
memoir Society’s Child, and also won the Audie Award for Audiobook
of the Year, for Colin Firth’s performance of Graham Greene’s The
End of the Affair.
Audible, the world’s largest seller and producer of downloadable
audiobooks and other spoken-word content, invented and
commercialized the first digital audio player in 1997, and has
since been at the forefront of the explosively growing audiobook
download segment. In 2014, listeners around the world downloaded
1.2 billion hours of audio from Audible.com outlets; Audible
members downloaded an average of more than 17 books over the course
of the year. More than half of current Audible members are
first-time audiobook buyers.
ABOUT AUDIBLE, INC.
Audible, Inc., an Amazon.com, Inc. subsidiary
(NASDAQ:AMZN), is the leading provider of premium digital spoken
audio information and entertainment on the Internet, offering
customers a new way to enhance and enrich their lives every day.
Audible’s mission is to establish literate listening as a core tool
for anyone seeking to be more productive, better informed, or more
thoughtfully entertained. Audible content includes more than
215,000 audio programs from leading audiobook publishers,
broadcasters, entertainers, magazine and newspaper publishers, and
business information providers. Audible is also the preeminent
provider of spoken-word audio products for Apple’s iTunes
Store.
Audible.comMatthew Thornton,
973-820-0402mthornton@audible.com
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