20th Century Fox has acquired feature rights to the life simulation computer game “The SIMS” from Electronic Arts, and has set project up with Fox-based John Davis.

Steve Asbell is overseeing the project for Fox with SIMS Studio head Rod Humble managing the creative property for Electronic Arts. Brian Lynch will script; story is under wraps with talent yet to be named.

“‘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,” said Humble. “Given that that’s an old story, you can imagine how easily that would translate to traditional story telling.”
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Wait… a SIMS movie? About how you deal with infinite power? Huh? But the Sims isn’t about that, it’s about… moving… little… fake people around! Unless they do the movie from the point of view of the player and… oh my lord it’s a God movie.

That’s what they’re gonna have to do isn’t it? Start out with some guy playing the Sims and controlling his universe and how he relates to the little computer people and then he gets transported into their world and has to deal with what he caused and learn the lesson that just because you have ultimate power…. which boils down to a 2 hour ad to NOT PLAY THE GAME.

I can not see this going well.