TV & Movies
Margot Robbie To Produce The Sims Movie Based On The Video Game
Is Simlish headed to the big screen?
After the billion-dollar success of Barbie, Margot Robbie is moving on to her next project: The Sims movie, based on the iconic video game.
Per The Hollywood Reporter, the actor’s production company, Lucky Chap, which she runs with Tom Ackerley, Josey McNamara, and Sophia Kerr, is set to adapt The Sims for the big screen with Vertigo Entertainment and Electronic Arts, who published the original game.
Director Kate Herron (Loki Season 1) is on board to helm the film and co-write its screenplay with Briony Redman, a frequent collaborator of hers.
Released in 2000, The Sims is one of the bestselling live simulation video games in history, with almost 200 million copies sold globally.
In case you missed out on the hype: The game, which Sims designer Will Wright once described as a “virtual doll house,” allows players to live virtually through avatars who have personality traits, develop relationships, and experience milestones such as starting a family, getting a job, and having sex.
As Entertainment Tonight reports, development on a live-action Sims movie first got underway in 2007 but failed to materialize. In 2019, plans for the adaptation were scrapped by Disney when the company acquired 21st Century Fox.
Sims Diehards React To The News
While details about the film, like a cast or release date, remain unannounced, fans of the video game were quick to share their excitement.
“A The Sims movie and Margot Robbie? We are being fed,” one user wrote on X (formerly Twitter). “We are seated,” another commented. Some joked that there’d be “no point” in a Sims movie unless the characters speak in the “Simlish” language featured in the game.
“They need to speak only Simlish with no subtitles, only vibes,” one user commented, while another added, “This has to either dig deep into the lore of The Sims, or be spoken completely in Simlish the entire time with horrible outfits, badly designed houses, tons of fires, and disappearing pool ladders... or all of the above.”
