Serial Productions is ready to share an exciting story.

The New York Times and the podcast studio behind “In series” And “S-City” free “The Good Whale”, a six-part podcast hosted by Daniel Alarcón.

PEOPLE has an exclusive first look at the trailer for “The Good Whale,” which launches November 14. The podcast follows the real-life fight to free the orca actor who played the titular whale in the 1993 movie Free Willy.

The Good Whale trailer

Free Willy is a family drama about an orphan, Jesse, who befriends a young killer whale, Willy, who has been separated from his group and placed in captivity. The film ends with Jesse leading Willy to freedom so the animal can rejoin his family.

According to a press release from “The Good Whale”, after Free Willy became an unexpected hit, fans learned that the orca who played Willy in the film – a slain whale named Keiko – was sick and living in a pool at an amusement park. The revelations caused an uproar that led Warner Bros, the studio behind Free Willyto look for a way to release the animal into the wild.

Those determined to help free Keiko discovered that reintroducing a whale to the open ocean was not as simple as Free Willy made it appear. This true story takes place in Mexico, Iceland and Oregon before ending in Norway. This involves a large number of trainers and scientists determined to give Keiko a chance at a better life.

“The Good Whale” covers the challenges animal experts faced during the years they spent trying to prepare Keiko – a whale who entered captivity as a calf and raised by humans – to wild animal life and explores whether the project paid off in the end.

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“There are a lot of genre shifts in ‘The Good Whale,'” Julie Snyder, editor-in-chief of Serial Productions, said in a statement about the upcoming podcast. “Because Daniel Alarcón is a novelist and journalist, the podcast is a literary campfire epic, a scientific exploration, and then – in a left turn – there’s also a bit of Broadway musical. It’s one of the most inventive stories I’ve ever heard.

“The Good Whale” will be launched on November 14wherever podcasts are available and on the NYT Audio app. New York Times All Access and Audio subscribers will receive exclusive early access to the entire series on this date. All other listeners will have access to the first two episodes of the podcast on November 14, with subsequent episodes releasing weekly.

On November 19, a Spanish version of the first episode will also be available on Mobile Radio.