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The Sims Movie in the Works with Margot Robbie Producing and Kate Herron Directing
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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/the-sims-movie-margot-robbie-luckychap-1235856997/
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.
Sims is a life simulation computer game where players play as an avatar that has changeable personality traits, skills, and relationships, and goes through the mundane tasks of daily life like making dinner and decorating a home. The game is built on characters having goals and aspirations. They may also, depending on the game, build out oneโs family.
After the first game was released in 2000, the suburban setting of the franchise was expanded, via sequel and expansion packs, to include an almost never-ending array of settings and tones such as vacations, show business, dating, high school life, even magic and vampires. The array of characters is also in near-endless supply, though members of the Goth and Landgraab families are among the more prominent.
On some level, Sims shares similar traits as Barbie. The game has no real narrative and features characters going about their lives, albeit controlled by gameplayers. Barbie, as a toy, has no narrative, being a doll with an endless array of careers, controlled by players.
Lee, who will be in theaters this weekend with horror Late Night with the Devil, has developed similarly difficult to adapt IP with the Lego movies. Those animated features has inspired spin-offs and pulled in hundreds of millions at the box office.
For her part, Herron has shown an affinity for genre defiant material, making Loki, with its multiple timelines and worlds, into Marvelโs most watched show on Disney+.
At the moment, LuckyChap is the hottest production company in Hollywood after the billion dollar success of Barbie and the meme-able R-rated Emerald Fennell title Saltburn. Coming up, the company has comedy My Old ๐ธ๐ธ๐ธ๐ธ, which sold out of the Sundance Film Festival to MGM Amazon.
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<<Following the blockbuster success of Barbie, Margot Robbie is tackling another famous IP. As first reported by Jeff Sneider and confirmed by The Hollywood Reporter, a movie based on the popular video game franchise The Sims is currently being shopped to Hollywood studios by Robbie and her LuckyChap production company.
Kate Herrnon, who helmed the first season of Loki on Disney+, is on board to direct the film, and is also co-writing the screenplay with Briony Redman.
Similar to Barbie, The Sims has no real narrative or plot to go off of. Even so, studios no doubt have faith in Robbie, who, along with director/writer Greta Gerwig, turned Barbie into a billion dollar film franchise. A bidding war between studios and streams is unfolding as we speak.
As an added bonus, plenty of musicians are noted fans of The Sims, including Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker, Japanese Breakfast, and Snail Mail, so we could also get a pretty stellar soundtrack out of this.
It remains to be seen whether Robbie herself plans to appear in the film. She has a pretty busy schedule lined up, including a starring role opposite Ryan Gosling in an Oceanโs Eleven prequel and the inevitable Barbie sequel.>>
But I'm not so sure about making a movie about the sims, Hollywood have become a bit infamous lately for making movies that don't follow the source material.
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I remember about them making The Sims Movie during The Sims 3 era, but that has gone quiet.
Yes, I remember it correctly. Here's an article on it on The Sims Wiki!
I'll bring out the plot of that cancelled movie from there:
We'll see how that will go. Will it be another cancelled project or will we see it in cinemas? Only time will tell.
I also hope they realize this fandom is ancient ๐ต and don't make it too modern teenish
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Amen to that.
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Why haven't they mentioned anything about it?
EA is mentioned as being involved in at least one of the articles I've read on it. But as the film is still in Pre-Prodcution, they probably aren't ready to do any promotions on it yet. We might get some early promotional shots once they're starting filming, but that probably won't be for a few months yet.
Edit - it may be even longer. I just took a look at the Barbie Wikipedia page, and from the time Margot Robbie got involved to filming was three years. Granted, those years covered most of the pandemic, but I don't blame EA for not rushing to promote something we may not be seeing for a while.
Iโd pay real simoleons to see that movie!
More than likely it will have to do with something relating more directly to the concept of the Sims game itself: mind control, simulation theory, sandbox creativity.
It would be nice to have something like an action, adventure, comedy movie where all the well known characters, with their specific lore and powers, come together for the story. They could add in a 100 baby challenge or a berry legacy household for the fun of it.
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@Simmingal That might be true for the franchise as a whole, but Sims 4 players are mostly young adults.
-Yes, person I barely know, you have my blessing to hang out with Johnny Zest.
-No person with the mean, hot-headed and self-absorbed traits, I don't think you should get married.
(and that theres no cringe tropes about kids and their computers)
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I think Jenna Ortega is the only option for Cassadra Goth
It's like comparing Mass Effect or Halo to Star Wars.
I think League of Legend, Minecraft and Fortnite aren't even at the same popularity level as Barbie, G.I. Joe, Transformers and Lego.
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