20th Century Fox has acquired the feature rights to Electronic Arts “The SIMS” life-simulation computer game. “The SIMS” movie will be a live-action feature based off of the game, which I’m not quite sure how they’re going to pull that off. However, considering that The SIMS is the world’s best-selling PC game with more than $1.6 billion in sales, it’s a logical next step for further marketing and money-making opportunities. Brian Lynch (Scary Movie 3) will script the film, but little else is known about it so far. The story is being kept under wraps, and there’s been no information given about the cast.

All in all, this whole project sounds pretty lame. I just can’t see how this will work, especially for a feature film. I can’t help but think that they’re only trying to capitalize even further off SIMS game addicts who they assume will be a built-in fanbase for the movie.

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