Your obsession with podcasts has already taken a dark turn (can’t you ever just sit in silence anymore?) and it’s about to get even darker. According to Deadline, Paramount and Michael Bay’s production company Platinum Dunes are developing a feature-length version of the Dutch horror short Meet Jimmy, which is, of course, about an evil (or, at least, an evil-assisting) podcast.
From the minds of filmmakers David-Jan Bronsgeest and Tim Koomen, who will help develop the short for the big screen, Meet Jimmy revolves around “a mysterious podcast that once listened to, has horrific consequences.†A Meet Jimmy IMDB page says, “What if the podcast you’re listening to can hear you too? Jennifer is enjoying the confessions of a killer when he suddenly starts talking to her.†Which, admittedly, is worse than getting hit by a bus, which is for sure going to happen to you if you don’t take those earbuds out once in a while.