Nick Lives, the creative director behind Home Safety Hotline developer Night Signal Entertainment, has confirmed that the spooky telephone operator sim is getting itself a movie adaptation.
We don't know too much about the movie right now, but news of its existence was first reported by the folks at Bloody Disgusting before being confirmed by Lives himself on Bluesky.
According to Bloody Disgusting's report, Home Safety Hotline's movie adaptation will be directed by Love and Monsters helmsman Michael Matthews, and scriptwriting duties will be handled by Nick Tassoni. It looks as though the project will serve as Tassoni's feature-length debut in the industry.
Producer Steven Schneider says his production company Spooky Pictures is well-suited to adapting Home Safety Hotline; he says adapting "beloved IP into visceral cinematic experiences" is what the company does best.
Executive producer Ben Ross, meanwhile, points to Apple TV hit Severance and iconic Netflix show Stranger Things as tonal touchpoints for the movie, describing the project as "analog horror at its spine-chilling best".
It's difficult to imagine how Home Safety Hotline could be turned into a movie without losing a lot of its identity; the game is largely a Hypnospace Outlaw-style operating system...
