The English actor Sting, well-known for donning a cracking pair of pants as Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen in David Lynch’s Dune in addition to for his side-career in music, will lend his voice to a humanoid wolf in Where The Water Tastes Like Wine. That furry fella is without doubt one of the storytellers within the country-roaming Americana anthology, which is led by Gone Home co-creator Johnnemann Nordhagen at his new studio, Dim Bulb, and options tales from writers including former RPS contributors Cara Ellison, Emily Short, and Leigh Alexander. Here, meet Sting and another voice actors on this new trailer:
That’s good, that. Where The Water Tastes Like Wine palms us the hat and bindle of an anthropomorphic personification of folkore, an enormous skeleton tasked with wandering America and spreading tales after shedding a poker recreation. You meet individuals, take heed to their tales, and share these you’ve collected.
Each story we hear is written by a unique author and informed by a unique narrator. Other than Sting, the newly-revealed listing of voice actors contains Dave Fennoy and Melissa Hutchison (Lee and Clem from Telltale’s The Walking Dead), Cissy Jones (Firewatch’s Delilah), and Kimberly Brooks (Ashley out Mass Effect).
If you fancy studying extra, Pip spoke to Nordhagen last year in regards to the recreation and the parable of America.
Where The Water Tastes Like Wine is due “in early 2018” – hey, that’s now-ish!
Disclosure: I’m pally with a number of individuals who contributed to this recreation (and flatmates with one) however I’m knowledgeable and, above all else, an enormous fan of those Dune pants. God, they’re magnificent! What astonishing underwear.