Debut Video Trailer for Tribeca-Selected Sci-Fi Podcast The Dolos Project

Marcus and Megan Bagala are bringing a new kind of indie ambition to this year’s Tribeca Festival. The husband-and-wife podcast veterans, whose work spans top shows for DC (DC High Volume: Batman), Marvel, Star Trek: Khan, Gimlet, Spotify, and Wondery, have been selected for the festival’s audio lineup with The Dolos Project, an original psychological sci-fi thriller.

Set in an alternate 1987, The Dolos Project begins in the aftermath of Earth’s nuclear annihilation. From a remote space station, co-pilots David and Sarah, alongside their AI companion SAI, may be the last remnants of humanity. As they search for survivors, an unsettling question emerges: what if nothing is as it seems?

An intimate, cerebral thriller, the series explores the psychological toll of total loss, the fragile persistence of hope, and the moral trade-offs behind advancing artificial intelligence. It combines retro-futurist worldbuilding with a deeply contained, character-driven narrative designed to place listeners inside a claustrophobic station at the edge of the end of the world.

For the first time in public, Podnews can share the full video trailer here:

The project marks a major pivot for the Bagalas, who have spent the past decade shaping hit podcasts across the industry. With The Dolos Project, they’ve independently built a premium fiction series from the ground up, writing, directing, producing, and composing the pilot themselves. Season one is structured as an eight-episode, half-hour audio drama, with a sustainable production model aimed at delivering cinematic storytelling at an indie scale.

The pilot, premiering at Tribeca, features a cast of stage and screen talent, including Kelsey Lea Jones (Beef Season 2) and Lexi Rabadi (Operation Mincemeat on Broadway), and showcases sound design talent with credits tied to Quiet Part Loud, Spotify’s #1 fiction podcast from Monkeypaw and Gimlet. Following its Tribeca debut, the team is seeking partners for a full eight-episode season, targeted for release in late 2025 or early 2026.