The Sims

[Galactus]

The Sims Coming to the Big Screen
Source: Variety May 25, 2007


Variety says 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. The movie will be live-action.

Steve Asbell is overseeing the project for Fox with "Sims" Studio head Rod Humble managing the creative property for Electronic Arts. Brian Lynch will write the script; the story is under wraps with talent yet to be named.


So how the hell can you make a movie out of a life simulation game?

 

[AssMan]

I cant think of any words I am speechless about this

 

[Casius--J]

The sims?? How could you make a film out of this? Would be boorrrrriiinnnn!!!

 

[The Kid]

yikes, talk about a late arrival.

Nobody plays the sims anymore.

 

[Sam Fisher]

Wtfwtfwtf???

 

[Nathan Petrelli]

If done right, this could be an amazing comedy.

 

[Sam Fisher]

If done right, this could be an amazing comedy.

 

[arachnid-guy]

Snoo, snoo.

Intriguing.

 

[ghost_x]

I'm seeing this as a mix between The Truman Show and Married With Children, sounds like a great combination huh.

 

[DOG LIPS]

Yeah, probably a Truman Show type thing. They are all being controlled/watched, then one of them figures it out and tries to get "free".

 

[ghost_x]

I think it would be great if there was a giand hand floating and following them around.

 

[Galactus]

yikes, talk about a late arrival.

Nobody plays the sims anymore.

They do in Sweden. These games are constantly on the top of bestselling games here...

 

[DOG LIPS]

This movie would kick ass if it was like a little town being controlled by a giant fat kid or something. We could see the fat kid's life at points, then if he gets picked on he comes home and f***s with their lives.

 

[Sava]

stop picking on fat people

 

[DOG LIPS]

I'll pick on you all I want, son!

 

[Sava]

its the clothes, dammit!

 

[DOG LIPS]

Fat clothes.

 

[The Apatow Crew]

Alli gotta say is why?

That game was boring as hell.

 

[Sava]

Fat clothes.

... you are a mean ka ka head.



but yeah, this movie sounds like a stupid idea.

 

[ghost_x]

It certainly can't be worse than the Resident Evil movies...
















Can it?

 

[terry78]

I sense it'll be done like the first Superman, where it opens up with a kid opening up a Supes comic and basically the movie is him reading the comic book. This could open with someone starting up a Sims game, then you go into a live action setting. I'll assume a PG-13 comedy type thing more than likely.

 

[Sam Fisher]

Um...

So, this is a video game adaption?



No idea what they could make out of this movie though.

Porn.

 

[ghost_x]

Lets hope they don't talk in that annoying sims dialect throughout the duration

 

[Mr. Credible]

Lets hope they don't talk in that annoying sims dialect throughout the duration

i used to play that stupid game so much i'd dream in that language...

"fershoodo!"

"babbaloo."

 

[ghost_x]

I swear one time, one of them once said 'gof-ckyourself' when I tried to make him do something