Yes, the Sims, the video game, is being made into a movie. Seriously. The Sims. The game where you pretend to be people and control them until you get bored and kill them off in creative ways (at least that is what I did…) is becoming a major movie. This may be the first game rated R for Whoo-hoo!
Fox brings ‘SIMS’ to bigscreen
Film will be a live-action version
By PETER GILSTRAP
20th Century Fox has acquired feature rights to the life simulation computer game “The SIMS” from Electronic Arts, and has set project up with Fox-based John Davis.The five-year-old franchise is the best selling PC game in history, with worldwide sales topping 85 million, bringing in over $1.6 billion. Pic will be a live-action version.
Steve Asbell is overseeing the project for Fox with SIMS Studio head Rod Humble managing the creative property for Electronic Arts. Brian Lynch will script; story is under wraps with talent yet to be named.
“‘The SIMS has done an interactive version of an old story, which is what it’s like to have infinite power and how do you deal with it,” said Humble. “Given that that’s an old story, you can imagine how easily that would translate to traditional story telling.”
Davis’ most recent projects include “Norbit,” “When A Stranger Calls,” and “Eragon.”
Lynch scripted and helmed upcoming “Big Helium Dog,” and penned “Scary Movie 3,” and is managed by Benderspink.
Also, I hope Big Helium Dog isn’t upcoming, because that is a barely released View Askew movie from 1999, so the writer must be confused. From the description if this turns out to be just a movie watching somoene playing the game I will make my own Sims of the writer and director, then wall them up in their house so they starve and die. Then the house gets burnt down when firecrackers are set off in the kitchen.
