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'The SIMS' headed to bigscreen!

Friday, 25 May 2007

Variety.com is reporting that 20th Century Fox may be bringing the beloved video game, "The Sims" to the silver screen.

The article goes on to say that it will be a live action film (interesting) and that they've already begun to assemble the creative team.

But the real question on everyone's mind: Will there be a nude patch?

From Variety.com:

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 .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.

I'm interested in seeing how they do this one. They could either go the cerebral route and make it about how people are being controlled by a greater force, or the campy route where a group of people do ridiculous things at the whim of a computer geek. I'm a little bothered that they got the "Norbit" and "Eragon" guy to head up the project, so I'm sure that it's going to be pure "popcorn entertainment".

Either way, as long as they show one of the characters killing himself in an extremely odd and complicated way , I'll be happy.

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