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We've Heard A SIMS Movie Adaptation Is Being Mulled...Here's How They Wanna Do It!!
Merrick here...
Collider rountabled with producer John Davis, who offered some insight into forthcoming projects (all of which have previously been mentioned on AICN in some way).
He had this to say about a big screen exploitation of THE SIMS - perhaps the most bewildering project on his slate:
John Davis: And Tom Rothman, the Chairman of Fox said to me, “How are you going to take this incredible piece of IP and make it into a movie?” Right? Because most games aren’t movies, so this is the way I did it: The Sims, as you know, you can control your imaginary world, right? And our movie, a young man, a 16 year old kid of a 14 year old kid and his friend get their hands on this thing called the Sims Infinity Pack, right, which kind of this very strange video game store which was there just for that moment, and seemingly wasn’t all that. But what they realize is that they can scan their world in, because this is the most life like, real Sims game ever. And as they are playing this they are all of a sudden realizing is what they are playing on the game is having an effect on the real world. So in effect, through the game, they are able to control their world. It’s wish fulfillment, and obviously it turns against them.
So this is a little bit of a cousin of “Weird Science” here.
John Davis: Exactly. Exactly! And definitely there will be somebody coming out of the game into the real world, like “Weird Science” did.
More details, including updates re: finding a director horny for JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS and the status of the AVP franchise, can be found...
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So this is a little bit of a cousin of “Weird Science” here.
John Davis: Exactly. Exactly! And definitely there will be somebody coming out of the game into the real world, like “Weird Science” did.
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is retarded
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this is like a radio play of a van gogh
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him or RidleY Scott
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EPIC FAIL LOL
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Because the idea of The Sims Movie makes my head hurt. Ri-god-damn-diculous.
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This was the shittiest 'game' ever made. The funny thing is that they seem to be aiming it at teen boys with the main characters, as if teen boys could give a flying fuck about the Sims.
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and that was oscar GOLD right?
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I have a cameo.
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Is english this guy's second language? Most of that made no fucking sense what so ever. But that is in keeping with wanting to do a Sims movie, I suppose.
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If you HAVE to do a Sims movie, you might as well shoot the damn thing in-game. It'll still suck, but at least it'll be different.
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He's got video game to motion picture adaptation experience. It's not a big genre, but he'll help keep it that way.
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Get Uwe Boll on it immediately.
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Who can play the little square?
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He's already a little square.
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Think about it. There's Free Cell, Spider and Klondike just for starters. Get Johnny Depp to play the 6 of clubs, PSH to play the jack of diamonds and Cher to play the queen of hearts. And make it reaaaaally dark. Get to the real gritty essence of solitaire...you know "the shit."
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fucking days away from a second great depression and motherfuckers are trying to figure this shit out with great enthusaism.
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Sep 22, 2008 12:28:22 AM CDT
I wish they'd lay off with these signs of the apocalypse
by harry weinstein
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so this could a green light, but TinTin w/ spielberg and Jackson is on hold? and studio wonder why they lose money..churn out crap for the short term profit. Try making stuff people will want to see, rather than race to the bottom
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That plot description hurts my head. "which kind of this very strange video game store which was there just for that moment, and seemingly wasn’t all that."
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Damn, how much this sounds like Twillight Zone.
Well, but at least, that's something, that's most probably the least interesting Game-Adaption.
Damn, can't these Hollywood-Idiots choose a much better Game?
Examples: Metroid(Remember the Leve-Action-Ad), Zelda(i think most have seen the IGN's Aprils-Fool-Trailer), Mechwarrior/Mechassault(Damn, the PC-Games had lots Movie-ish Videos). -
I was actually thinking "this could work in a sort of groundhog's day sort of way" up until I read "and obviously it turns against them." Then for some reason, all I could think of was Super Mario Bros. (crash and burn attempt at a video game adaptation)
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16 year old kid of a 14 year old kid?
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Has no one else noticed that all these damn SIM things are Wil Wright's critique of the PC gamer culture? People who would rather sit in a chair staring at a computer screen for hours straight, telling their little creature to go relieve himself, eat, sleep, fall in love, take a shower, etc etc...INSTEAD OF GETTING OFF THEIR BUTTS AND ACTUALLY LIVING A LIFE OF THEIR OWN! I know, friends, oh yes I do--because I bought the very first Sims game, and was seduced by the houses and furniture and wallpaper patterns and that old-time music that sounds a lot like what they use as a theme for It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia...plus the fact that when any of my little people talked they sounded a lot like the adults in "Peanuts" TV specials...it was all very clever and non-violent, nothing blew up, nobody got shot (though you could indeed kill your Sim by building a brick wall around him and letting him starve)...and after about three or four hours, I finally realized not only that nothing, really, had been accomplished in the game, but I hadn't had anything to drink or eat, I hadn't talked to anyone, I hadn't (ironically enough) used my OWN damn bathroom! Get thee behind me, Sims!...And then they came out with another one, and another, and pets, and jobs, and dates, and vacations, and...what exactly do the morons who continue to PLAY these things LOOK like? My guess is: a lot like that first murder victim in SE7EN who overdid it on the spaghetti sauce. Yeah, yeah, I know; if you don't like it, don't play it, don't buy it, I GET that! But, really: who ARE these people who respond to this stuff? And would even THEY be stupid enough to go see a MOVIE about it?
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...to not see this movie. This shit is inexcusably stupid, Tom Rothman must be stopped.
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Give that guy a raise.
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cause "simish" is a bitch to learn.
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All the great original material that could be made into a film and this shit gets a green light. May they suffer the next Speed Racer with this shit.
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…to make this flaming piece of dog shit; which it will undoubtedly be. Wasting millions of dollars on crap no one wants to see much less will pay to go see. Give the money to charity, to medical research, to anything that will make Bono shut up. Please, why waste it?
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F the Sims and F the Sims movie. It's shit like the Sims that makes people socially challenged.
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which was a gawdawful movie in Simish for an hour and a half... waitaminute, that actually sounds bizarely cool. This sounds kind of product-placement-y, but it seems better.
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JESUS CHRIST GET THE KINDERGARDENERS CONDOMS NOW!!!THEY'RE BREEDING BACK THROUGH TIME!!
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I think if you put the two AVP movies back to back, which have thier moments, there's a single great movie in there somewhere. I thought the second one with the fights was cool, but the human stuff was jaw-dropingly awful. Aliens vs. Predator. In space. Make the humans almost minimalist fodder and we've got ourselves a movie.
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A dumb joke that probably only our allies across the pond will get.
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THEN you have a movie. Or howabout an AVP movie with no humans whatsofuckingever?? Oh right Sims...........Howabout an AVP movie where Batman gets involved...oh wait...I saw that somewhere....
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as big brother.
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I thought the nines was based on the sims. Surely they had to pay some sort of royalty to use the spinning green thing over peoples heads?
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Sep 22, 2008 3:06:22 AM CDT
How come no ones made a movie mocking Harry Knowles yet?
by orionsangels
Not exactly based on Harry, but the story of 5 nerds who start up a nerd website and how they begin to effect Hollywood. The leader can be really fat, no offensive big H, but you know, the movie would be mocking AICN.
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... the idea, as metaphore, is really good - if not that original. I say give the idea to Charlie Kauffman to develop it as screenplay or David Webb Peoples (Blade Runner) or David Koepp or even Andrew Kevin Walker... these guys could actually construct a great movie out of it. On the other hand, I second a diptic "Manic Miner/Jet Set Willy" adaptation!
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"So this is a little bit of a cousin of “Weird Science” here. John Davis: Exactly. Exactly!" My God in heaven! Lay of the speed and acid man! Clear your head for once. Nobody wants to see SHIT like this. You know what...i don't even know what to say about this SIMS movie and i'm not even going to try. I am seriously at a loss of words of the current state of movies. Let the Apocalypse commence!
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Nines?
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Maybe in 10 years we'll get a franchise reboot that involves someone who can actually fucking write a script that doesn't suck ass and a director with some proven talent. Until then, any AVP movie is guaranteed to suck as hard as a goddamn SIMS movie. Hollywood truly makes me sad. On the plus side, reading is sure to become popular again.
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A boy finds PONG: THE INFINITE TABLE TENNIS ON YOUR TV program and plugs it into his tv box. Suddenly he realizes that he really is hitting a giant square across a vast empty field in space. Later on a monkey shows up and so goes a 30 year old woman playing a 15 year old girl. Also: a sassy black woman and a gay fashion designer stereotype. Together they blah blah blah blah blah et al...
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People actually liked these piles of shit? HOW?
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and I'm glad that that festering pile of shite is over with. Now, have someone with half a brain write Alien 5, hire Neil Marshall to direct it and now we're talking. BTW- this Sims shit is the worst idea, ever. And if Zeke is correct "fans" will never get off their fat arses to go and see it.
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you have to sit through both AvP movies back to back and then note the "good bits". Kind of like sifting through a gargantuan pile of cow shit to find a few nuggets of dog shit. After 3 days of that you'd tell your interrogator if you wear women's underwear.
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Give it time. It's coming.
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ooooook, sounds like a kid flick from the 90's
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...the game into the real world..." then I'm not interested.
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What does that mean Mr. Rothman? Intellectual property? So Tom Rothman thinks the Sims is an incredible piece of intellectual property? Gosh, he must REALLY have liked X-Men then. Unless he was being more sarcastic than I am. The Sims lost me when it tried to force me to get a job. As if that wasn't tedious in real life. Also isn't the plotline he mentions similar to the new film "Game" starring Gerard Butler?
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Fuck me. Die hollywood. Now. Yeah, real original and groundbreak take on the material there. Magic store handing out magic video game. That took you all of negative five minutes to creat right?
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Myst:The Movie. In the right hands it could kick ass.
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there have been PLENTY of Harry mockings already. He's been on the Simpsons, and at least 3 movies have taken goofball shots at him.
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Woo-hoo!
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and the idea for this sims movie sounds fucking stupid. Why the hell do we need a movie based on the sims anyway?
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But I just met her! bwahahahaha (sorry Futurama infection) But seriously folks, a SIMS movie? REALLY? By that description, it would suck immensely, also the Sims are like 10 years past being popular. Come on there are better ideas that can be greenlit than this.
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Or BRUCE ALMIGHTY, or any of a dozen other "everyman gets to play god" movies.
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Just can't wait to see the "I gotta take a leak" bubble over someone's head.
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THAT would get asses in the theater seats.
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...for the tits.
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Wouldn't that be tragically hip?
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which was not good . . . I mean God . . . no, actually the movie was not good, but it was about playing God, only not good.
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Palin for V.P.! What a fucking retarded idea...!
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Ok Edsel...write that one up! No cheating with FPS cam or using a super hottie like Mila Jovovich.
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...you know it's coming right? Right after Johnny Depp as Captain Crunch right? Nah, to obvious. Robin Williams then? Abe Vigoda?
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A movie, a young man, a 14 year-old parent, and his/her 16 year-old son/daughter purchase/steal something called the Sims Infinity Pack, which allows them to "scan in" their entire mind-bendingly fucked world. Merrick, please tell me you only posted this for us to laugh at.
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Put Brian Blessed in as Commander Borf and you've got box office gold!!
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Wasn't this really the concept behind The Truman Show? Control a man, by controlling his environment and everyone he comes in contact with...
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I always knew this was going to be a hard franchise to make a movie of. If this is the official plan, it sounds horrible.
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"Hey, Joe! Guess what, I saw this ad today, it had a girl and a bottle! And 5 people told me today they liked it! They remember the ad! Let's turn it into a movie!"
"Holy shit, Bob, that's a great idea! You know, I've seen a website today, it had a million hits a day! Recognition, man! You think we could turn the website into a movie trilogy?"
"That's a great idea! Say, what do you think of SUN: THE MOVIE? Everyone knows the sun and everyone likes it, right?"
"That's gold! Huh, huh, Beavis!"
Filthy scum. And filthier scum that makes it possible for that scum to do this. -
About a movie called "Movie", and in it someone could rent the movie they're in. Except that wouldn't work, because they've already done that gag in "Spaceballs." Okay. Wait. They do a movie called "Noun", and it a guy is playing Madlibs...
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Can anyone here imagine a scenario more pathetic than watching a movie about somebody ELSE's second life? Well you know what they say, "Second life sucks and then you die."
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Isn't this the type of script Script Girl usually talks about?
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Shit, the name alone would be a draw. And think of all the psuedo-intellectuals talking about how they can "see" the movie in the raining code. It could be a Mallrats magic-sign thing....
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Starring a used tube of toothpaste and a stale pretzel.
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Here's my vote - Hardware Wars: Episode Juan.
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My vote: Carmageddon. Of course, Death Race sorta stole that thunder, but a real Carmageddon movie could, in theory, kick ass, IF it was NC-17.
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you stupid fucking suits!!!!!! Quit wasting money on this horse shit and make something someone would give a shit about! Fox sucks ASS!!!
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it kinda was... http://www.tv.com/the-twilight-zone-2002/upgrade/episode/202120/summary.html?tag=ep_list;title;12
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So do the real people some how trapped in the game watch the Sims people? Watch them, go to work, clean, study, buy stuff, etc.
While the 'real people' struggle to escape the game the Sims people clean up after their pets, take the garbage out, cook, etc.
This sounds like such a shithead idea. If this is real this has to be a PURE PROMOTION 'high concept'. -
Where properties go to die.
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I only hope they don't speak that Simese language and have to subtitle it.
Oh just think of the sequels!! "Sims: Pets!" and "Sims: Dating!" -
Is that they waste money optioning video games, novels, theme-park rides and then try to churn out something completely different and retarded from the original property. They should just come up with an original idea and not just try to fit an idea around something impossible to adapt. Do they really think this thing is gonna sell cos it has the 'Sims' name on it?
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and will be greenlit by paramount: Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, starring Paul Walker, Bruce Willis, and Keanu Reeves!!! It's fast and Furious meets.... uhmmmmm "the office"???? It's supposed to be dark and gritty like Dark Knight.
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Lame.
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Death is gonna end up in the real world. You know this to be true.
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... but your Mavis Beacon joke made me do it. My co-workers are now looking at me strangely, and I bet I'm no longer on the short list for that big promotion. Damn you!
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This could be the next big blockbuster - A movie based on a video game that only exists in one episode of The Simpsons. The sequel could be Lee Trevino's Putting Challenge.
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Seriously, snort more blow. This idea is just incredible, but you know that an ever more mind-blowing "piece of IP" is just one more toot around the corner, or two... or three... as many as takes, right? As many as it takes!! ASMANYASITTAKES!!! HEY! Why are you going to the bathroom?! HEY!? Can I come? Hey?!! Whatchyagot?! whatchygot!? HEY!! OPEN THE DOOR, MAN! I wanna tell you about my idea for a NEW MOVIE!! It's really great! (etc...)
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Next, they should have a "the Sims" ride where everyone is thrown to the floor and teabagged repeatedly! And then they steal $10 out of your wallet and tell you to go fuck yourself, and to remember to buy their merchandise. I guarantee it'll be just like the movie!
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