Fox Making Movie from EA’s Sims Game

by Pixeleen Mistral on 26/05/07 at 12:34 pm

by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk

Peter Gilstrap reports in Variety that 20th Century Fox is planning to make a a live-action movie of The Sims, after purchasing the feature rights from Electronic Arts. The script is still being written, and the talent is presently unnamed, but there are some clues in a quote from Rod Humble, who is managing the creative property for Electronic Arts:

“‘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. Given that that’s an old story, you can imagine how easily that would translate to traditional story telling.”

So is this the story of a game system admin handing out perma-ban to players on a whim? Or a player with an exploit that gives them game god powers? Those stories never have happy endings.

Skeptics will wonder if they really need to go to the theaters to see this sort of thing – isn’t that what we get everyday in SL already? On the other hand, at least movie theaters don’t crash all the time. The Herald is offering Prokofy Neva and Urizenus Sklar to consult on the project – they both have some experience with how EA deals with infinite power in its game.

12 Responses to “Fox Making Movie from EA’s Sims Game”

  1. Kahni Poitier

    May 26th, 2007

    These are probably the same people that thought a Geico caveman commercial was a good basis for a TV series.

    Dee dee dee!

  2. Nacon

    May 26th, 2007

    EA wanted to make a movie because of some idiots wanted to make “Dead or Alive” life-action movie.
    (Wtf, it’s just like old Moral Kombats films.)

    Either ways, it’s gonna be crappy on screens across America, worst if further out.

  3. Lewis Nerd

    May 27th, 2007

    It was mentioned a few days ago over in the Sims Stratics site.

    Sounds like fun to me, to be honest, especially if the dialogue is all in simlish with english subtitles.

    Lewis

  4. Anonymous

    May 27th, 2007

    While I, personally, think that making a movie out of a game is ridiculus(megaman movie, doom movie, etc…); you should visit http://www.patrioticnigras.com!!! This is one of the best, if not, greatest organizations in all of SecondLife! Joining is simple, and any caveman could do it! So, what are you waiting for? GO NAO.

  5. Nacon

    May 27th, 2007

    Megaman? ….since when there was a live-action movie of Megaman? (not recently of course)

    Maybe youre forgetting some? Final Fantasy? Tomb Raider? Moral Kombat? …Super Mario?
    (yes… Mario in live-action film)

    Ahh hell, fuck all that, I want to see Pac-Man movie, saving New York City from ….uh giant ghosts down in the streets.

  6. Frankie Antonioni

    May 27th, 2007

    Ok here is my prosal for a movie about Second Life. Part of the movie takes place in SL, and part of the movie takes place in real life.

    The story involves a man and woman that can’t stand each other in real life but fall in love in SL.

    The woman owns an independent coffee shop, the man’s family owns a coffee shop chain. His family’s coffee shop is expanding into the independent coffee shop owners city.

    Now who should play the main characters?

  7. Tenshi Vielle

    May 27th, 2007

    I’m smelling… Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan? No?

  8. Angel

    May 27th, 2007

    “you should visit http://www.patrioticnigras.com!!!…blah..blah…Joining is simple, and any caveman could do it!”

    Ah, the proof, the PN are cavemen without an IQ. No intelligence and no style needed. A few simple grunts and you are in with the other knuckle draggers.

    :/

  9. Hazim Gazov

    May 28th, 2007

    If we cared what you thought about us, we’d have polls.

  10. Mako Mabellon

    May 28th, 2007

    “you should visit http://www.patrioticnigras.com!!!…blah..blah…Joining is simple, and any caveman could do it!”

    “Ah, the proof, the PN are cavemen without an IQ. No intelligence and no style needed. A few simple grunts and you are in with the other knuckle draggers.”

    YHBT. You can’t join the PN from that site (or even get to the site where you can). Even if you could, you wouldn’t get in.

  11. asdf

    May 29th, 2007

    gb2/hugbox/ angel fluffy

  12. mootykips

    May 29th, 2007

    glad our furfag filtering system (FFS) is working excellently

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