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[Draugoth]

The Sims, one of the biggest names in the computer game world, is heading to the big screen.


Kate Herron, best known for directing season one of the genre-bending Marvel series Loki, is attached to tackle an adaptation of the game in a hot package that has hit the studios and streamers this week. Herron will also co-write the screenplay with Briony Redman.


LuckyChap, the production company run by Margot Robbie, Tom Ackerly, Josey McNamara and Sophia Kerr and which is still basking in the glow of producing Barbie, will produce the feature along with Roy Lee and Miri Yoon of Vertigo Entertainment. Electronic Arts, which published the game, will also be involved in a creative and producing capacity.

via Hollywood Reporter

 

[TintoConCasera]

How the fuck do you write a movie about The Sims? Some wacko goes around the neighborhood removing stairs from pools?

 

[Hudo]

How the fuck do you write a movie about The Sims? Some wacko goes around the neighborhood removing stairs from pools?

I guess maybe an episode of Friends or Sex in the City but at feature length?

Best case: An episode of Seinfeld at feature length

 

[RoboFu]

How the fuck do you write a movie about The Sims? Some wacko goes around the neighborhood removing stairs from pools?

It will be Barbie part 2. Ohh sims in the real world!!!

 

[Complistic]

Well this will be awful.

 

[calistan]

It will be Barbie part 2. Ohh sims in the real world!!!

Or the other way round, like Free Guy - real person gets stuck in sims world.

 

[Woopah]

With Margot Robbie's what?

 

[Valedix]

 

[MonkeyClaw36]

With Margot Robbie's what?

 

[TheMan]

It will be Barbie part 2. Ohh sims in the real world!!!

first thing that came to mind but I really hope that's not it

 

[RoadHazard]

Margot Robbie's what?

 

[RickSanchez]

For the love of fuck.

I mean i know Hollywood completely ran out of original ideas many years ago, but this is truly scraping the bottom of the barrel. Even the video game adaptation barrel.

Are they truly so creatively bankrupt ? Can they absolutely not think of new ideas at all ?

 

[mejin]

So, this is her career now.

 

[BlueLyria]

Ok, but Ryan Gosling has to be on it

 

[bitbydeath]

How the fuck do you write a movie about The Sims? Some wacko goes around the neighborhood removing stairs from pools?

Hopefully it’ll be like the Truman Show, where they discover everything is fake.

 

[MonkeyClaw36]

For the love of fuck.

I mean i know Hollywood completely ran out of original ideas many years ago, but this is truly scraping the bottom of the barrel. Even the video game adaptation barrel.

Are they truly so creatively bankrupt ? Can they absolutely not think of new ideas at all ?

Ideas for a Sims movie have been floating around for 20 years.....

 

[Sybrix]

I assume this will be like the Lego Movie, there will be some 3rd wall moments of a 'Player'.

Would also guess it's a comedy, having those moments of buliding rooms with no doors, fireworks being letter off inside, babies being made, grim reaper coming etc.

Could be funny i guess.

 

[DryvBy]

Update to this POS news:

‘The Sims’ Movie From ‘Loki’ Director Kate Herron Lands at Amazon MGM

LuckyChap and Vertigo Entertainment are behind the feature that adapts the popular video game franchise from Electronic Arts.

www.hollywoodreporter.com