The Safe Man has been realized into a fully fleshed out story. Nearly two decades after it was published anonymously in The Secret Society of Demolition Writers, Michael Connelly expanded his short story into a feature-length audiobook on Audible. The Lincoln Lawyer author reunited with longtime collaborator Titus Welliver (Bosch) and Jack Quaid (The Boys, Oppenheimer) to bring The Safe Man to listenable life. While the story, one which interweaves Connelly’s familiar mystery and suspense flavors while dabbling into some supernatural elements, is currently exclusive to the audio format, there are aspirations to bring it to live-action.
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“That’s the hope,” Connelly told ComicBook when asked if there are plans to turn The Safe Man into a film or television series. “The pyramid gets skinnier and skinnier at the top, so it’s a tough thing to go the distance. But yes, we’re definitely in discussions about that. Now that this is out, we’ll definitely move forward with that.”
Connelly is no stranger to turning his works into motion-pictures, as The Lincoln Lawyer has been made into both a feature film and Netflix series while his recurring leading character detective Harry Bosch is the centerpiece of the Bosch television program.
With The Safe Man existing under the umbrella of Audible, an Amazon company, there is a direct pipeline to Prime Video.
“Audible has a branch that is kind of like a way of delivering this to Prime, and hopefully they’ll be interested in it,” Connelly continued. “We’ll see how it does on Audible first, and then we’ll go from there.”
The Safe Man also has the luxury of already existing with a stacked cast. Should a live-action adaptation move forward, Connelly noted it would be “amazing” to bring the likes of Welliver and Quaid back to portray their characters on camera.
“If we could get all these people, it would be pretty amazing,” Connelly said. “They’re all extremely talented and they’re all in-demand people. I kind of scratched my head a little bit at how we got them. I think that was the power of Titus, to tell you the truth, to get some of the people that we got. It was kind of a case of, ‘Well, if Titus is doing it, then yeah, I want to be part of that.’ That worked for us on this level, and hopefully it would work again on live-action.”
The Safe Man is available now on Audible.
