Okay first I just have to say this: “What the…?” Right. Now that I’ve gotten that out of my system.

I was just checking today’s news to see what’s gotten everybody up in arms today and my jaw dropped when I saw a tiny article in the entertainment section that claims that The Sims is going to be made into a full-length movie. No, not another machinima fan creation; a real movie with people, not sims. Just to be sure I wasn’t going completely mad I hunted around for some links and found what appears to be the source of the story: an article at Variety.

Reprinted here for the lazy ;)

Fox brings ‘SIMS’ to bigscreen
Film will be a live-action version
By PETER GILSTRAP

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 $1.6 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 not sure if this is good news or bad news or simply just plain weird. From what I’ve heard “Ergaon” was actually pretty bad, although I have to admit that there probably wasn’t a great deal you can do with a story that is essentially a bunch of cliches and more resembles crossover fan fiction.

I’ll be keeping an eye on this though, that’s for sure. It’ll be interesting to see what they come up with and if they’re restricted to just the Sims 1 or will Sims 2 storylines be able to be used. Will the true story of Bella Goth’s abduction and mysterious appearance in Strangetown finally be revealed? Will our fragile little minds crack as it is revealed just how Nervous Subject was conceived? Gah… actually, I think they’d better stick to Sims 1!!

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