The Sims Movie in the Pipe From Loki Director, Margot Robbie’s Company to Produce

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The Sims Movie in the Pipe From Loki Director, Margot Robbie’s Company to Produce - IGN

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EA’s long-running life simulation series The Sims is being adapted into a movie, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The project will be directed by Kate Herron, who previously directed season one of Loki for Disney+ and four episodes of Sex Eduction season one for Netflix. Herron will reportedly also co-write the screenplay.

Margot Robbie’s production company LuckyChap (which Robbie runs alongside Tom Ackerly, Josey McNamara, and Sophia Kerr) is on deck to produce, in conjunction with Roy Lee and Miri Yoon of Vertigo Entertainment, as well as Electronic Arts itself.

No other details on the upcoming film are available at this stage, so it’s unknown how many Sims will drown following the removal of the ladder after they jump in the pool.

Created by iconic game designer Will Wright (the creator of 1989’s pioneering SimCity), The Sims was first released in early 2000. With over two decades of sequels and expansions under its belt (and more than 200 million copies sold) The Sims is one of the best-selling video game series off all time.

This isn’t the first time a movie based on The Sims has been in the works; back in 2007 Fox was gearing up for its own live-action adaptation of the series, but it floundered in development limbo for over a decade before being officially cancelled in 2019 in the wake of the Disney-Fox merger.

 

[Battlelyon]

Either it will be great or just terrible. No in-between.

 

[calsnowskier]

Either it will be great or just terrible. No in-between.

It will be a Barbie/Free Guy/Wreck It Ralph type of story.

One of the sims gains sentience and has to come to terms with the fact he is just a character in a game. There will be some quest he has to accomplish that might require him to enter the “real world”.

 

[Battlelyon]

It will be a Barbie/Free Guy/Wreck It Ralph type of story.

One of the sims gains sentience and has to come to terms with the fact he is just a character in a game. There will be some quest he has to accomplish that might require him to enter the “real world”.

Sounds like a good premise

 

[calsnowskier]

Sounds like a good premise

I think it is a “fresh enough” theme that it can withstand another movie or two, but if this IS the story, than it is beginning to get a bit stale (Free Guy, Barbie, Wreck it Ralph I and II, Tron I and II, Matrix series, etc)

 

[MilkSpiller22]

It will be a Barbie/Free Guy/Wreck It Ralph type of story.

One of the sims gains sentience and has to come to terms with the fact he is just a character in a game. There will be some quest he has to accomplish that might require him to enter the “real world”.

here is the thing... you can group most movies with a very vague similarity...

I don't think the three movies you mentioned were very similar other than the fact they were fictional characters that found out there was a larger world than their own...

but sure, Sims kind of has to be that way, as the game doesn't have an actual storyline... the question is not about what the story is about, it is what is going to be the moral of the story

 

[foster4prez]

It will be a Barbie/Free Guy/Wreck It Ralph type of story.

One of the sims gains sentience and has to come to terms with the fact he is just a character in a game. There will be some quest he has to accomplish that might require him to enter the “real world”.

I'm down.