The Sims Movie gets the cold shoulder from mourning fans
A movie based on The Sims is coming, but by the looks of it, you'd rather EA focuses on its games.
18th Sep 2024 13:18
Images via Warner Bros. | Maxis
The Sims Movie gets the cold shoulder from mourning fans
A movie based on The Sims is coming, but by the looks of it, you'd rather EA focuses on its games.
18th Sep 2024 13:18
Images via Warner Bros. | Maxis
Electronic Arts is on the assault right now, with long-awaited updates on what's going on with legacy IPS like Battlefield and The Sims. After EA confirmed its wartime shooter is getting ready to come back in a big way, the wacky world of The Sims is also set to expand - just maybe not in the way you'd hope.
These days, it seems video games can't escape the lure of the silver screen, with everything from BioShock to Gears of War, Death Stranding to Ghost of Tsushima tipped to hit the box office. There were already whispers that The Sims would be getting the movie treatment, and now, it's confirmed as gospel.
The Sims fans not sure about a live-action movie
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Speaking to Variety, EA's Vice President and General Manager of The Sims Kate Gorman confirmed a movie adaptation is officially in the works. Expanding on whether she sees it going, Gorman suggested there will be plenty of Sims lore and fan-favourite Easter eggs like Freezer Bunnies and pool ladders.
Amazon MGM Studios is releasing The Sims Movie, which will be produced by Margot Robbie's LuckyChap, directed by Loki's Kate Herron, and co-written by Herron and Doctor Who's Briony Redman. Given Robbie's success with the Barbie movie, optimists hope The Sims will be similar. Unfortunately, not everyone is sold on the idea.
One Sims fanatic shared a thread on Reddit 'mourning' the death of the franchise. This comes after EA announced that The Sims 5 isn't in the works, and instead, the publisher will continue to support The Sims 4 alongside the multiplayer Project Rene. Throwing a movie into the mix instead of taking the games forward is proving divisive.
Responding to the news, one disgruntled gamer wrote, "There's no way this movie is going to get past a 5/10," while another added, "Movie? I can practically hear Jack Black saying, 'Sul sul'." A third chimed in, "Knowing Hollywood, we’re just getting a movie full of celebrities playing as themselves in a setting where they one by one succumb to mysterious deaths until the MC finds out it was all a simulation."
Someone else summed up, "WTF plot can you make for a movie about a game that simulates real life? is it just going to be actors with CGI plumbobs over their heads starting fires while cooking? an actor who walks upstairs and then remembers something and then walks back down the stairs? ffs."
It's not hard to see why gamers would be sceptical, and although some think the video game adaptation curse has been trounced, there's plenty of proof that it hasn't. Sonic the Hedgehog and Detective Pikachu showed us the genre had hope, while recent TV series, including Fallout and The Last of Us, have been record-breaking successes.
Sadly, although The Super Mario Bros. Movie became the first video game movie to make over $1 billion at the box office, Eli Roth's Borderlands is destined to be one of the biggest box office flops of all time. Considering the backlash the live-action Minecraft movie is facing after its first trailer, it could go either way with The Sims.
Some have accused EA of releasing the movie news to distract us from The Sims 5, and even though we're intrigued to see whether The Sims will be the next Barbie or just another Borderlands, execs NEED to keep Jack Black and Chris Pratt away from this one!
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