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Two more videogame franchises are set to get the big screen treatment following the acquisition of the movie rights to The Sims and King of Fighters, GamesIndustry.biz reports.
According to Variety, the Sims rights have been secured by 20th Century Fox. A live action film is planned, and the project will be overseen by Sims studio boss Rod Humble.
"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," he commented.
"Given that that's an old story, you can imagine how easily that would translate to traditional storytelling."
The Sims movie will be written by Brian Lynch, who penned Scary Movie 3 and Helium Dog. Also attached to the project is John Davis, producer of Norbit and Eragon.
Meanwhile, Variety Asia is reporting that Double Edge Entertainment is producing a film based on hit beat-'em-up series King of Fighters.
Hong Kong action movie specialist Gordon Chan (Fist of Legend, Beast Cops) will direct, and Chris Chow - who wrote Jet Li film Fearless - will author the script.
The film will be produced by Axis Entertainment's Joseph Chou, Tim Kwok of Convergence Entertainment, Japanese company Micott & Basara and Arclight/Easternlight.
Also working on the project will be animation and special effects firm CGCG, who worked on the Donkey Kong and Bionical cartoon series.
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The Sims movie?
WTF? A movie about having to tell people to 1) Get Up 2) Take a piss and have a shower 3) Make a "quick" breakfast 4) Go to work 5) Make a quick dinner 6) Try and make friends with the neigbours before.. 7) Falling asleep and pissing self on the carpet in the corridor 8) Repeat steps 1-7 ad nauseum. Hmm, think I may pass on that one. |
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the sims was done as recently as last year, as stranger than fiction
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Britesparc
29/05/07 @ 09:01
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"The Sims movie will be written by Brian Lynch, who penned Scary Movie 3 and Helium Dog. Also attached to the project is John Davis, producer of Norbit and Eragon."
Fucking hell. Oscars 2009 beckons. |
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crazyhorse174
29/05/07 @ 10:13
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How the hell can you make a Sims movie? Its not like there is a storyline to the game.
Incidentally, and I know this is off topic, but I bloody well hate the Sims and could never see the point of it. |
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Britesparc
29/05/07 @ 11:13
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"Bah, read that as "The Sims movie will be written by David Lynch".
Now that would be some film." What a fantastic idea - it could be a sequel to Blue Velvet. |
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Fitzmogwai
29/05/07 @ 11:22
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Damn it! The one games movie that would benefit from Uwe Boll directing, and he's not attached!
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YourMessageHere
29/05/07 @ 15:29
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Wow, it's April the first pt.II! Right? Right!?!? Plix.
This is where YOUR money goes when you pay to watch crap - who cares if piracy funds organised crime and/or terrorism (I LOL'd) when legitimate filmgoing funds THIS. |
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Pac-man ate my wife
29/05/07 @ 16:14
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As Space Ace pointed out, there's is actually potential in this idea, probably much more so than most Game to Movie adaptations. Think about it. You don't a plot or a backstory to try and shoe-horn in. You don't have to have a film that's soaked in blood and an excuse for gratuitiuos violence.
Given the right treatment it could be a genius. Think Being John Malkovich or the aforementioned Stranger Than Fiction, rather than Resident Evil or Mario Bros. |
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I understand the logic behind this announcement completely. The reason The Sims sold so well is because of how enthralling it is to watch someone else play.
Anyway, so long as the fully customisable characters make it to the big screen and they retain some of the dark wit from the game (who can forget "Dis grawl esss finenanay!" ) I'm sure it'll be a mammoth success.
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3william56
30/05/07 @ 05:18
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@PacManAMW.
"Could be" is a hell of a long way from "will" in the merry world of computer game movies, dude. Alone in the Dark *could* have been a top film, if, er, it wasn't a complete festering bag of sh*t. |
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