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Josey McNamara, Margot Robbie and Tom Ackerley
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The Sims, one of the biggest names in the world of video games, is coming to the big screen.
Kate Herron, best known for directing the first season of the genre-bending Marvel series. Loki, is attached to address an adaptation of the game in a hot package that arrived at studios and streamers this week. Herron will also co-write the script with Briony Redman.
LuckyChap, the production company run by Margot Robbie, Tom Ackerly, Josey McNamara and Sophia Kerr and still basking in the production glow Barbie, will produce the film alongside Vertigo Entertainment’s Roy Lee and Miri Yoon. Electronic Arts, which published the game, will also be involved in a creative and production capacity.
sims is a life simulation computer game in which players play as an avatar who has changing personality traits, abilities, and relationships, and performs mundane tasks of daily living, such as preparing dinner and decorating a house. The game is based on characters who have goals and aspirations. They can also, depending on the game, start their family.
After the release of the first game in 2000, the franchise’s suburban setting was expanded, through sequels and expansion packs, to include a nearly endless variety of settings and tones such as vacations, showbiz, dating, school life. secondary school and even Magic and vampires. The variety of characters is also almost endless, although members of the Goth and Landgraab families are among the most notable.
On some level, Sims share similar traits to Barbie. The game has no real narrative and features characters going about their lives, albeit controlled by the players. BarbieAs a toy, it has no narrative, being a doll with endless races, controlled by the players.
Lee, which will hit theaters this weekend with horror Late night with the devil, has developed IP equally difficult to adapt with the Lego movies. Those animated films inspired spin-offs and grossed hundreds of millions at the box office.
For his part, Herron has shown an affinity for genre-defying material, making Lokiwith its multiple timelines and worlds, in Marvel’s most watched show on Disney+.
Currently, LuckyChap is the most popular production company in Hollywood after the multi-million dollar success of Barbie and the meme-friendly R-rated title Emerald Fennell salty burn. Coming soon, the company has a comedy. my old asswhich sold out the Sundance Film Festival to MGM Amazon.