Here’s everything we know about the movie inspired by The Sims
The Sims is a series of social simulation games, designed by Will Wright and initially developed by Maxis. Today, it belongs to Electronic Arts (EA) and has sold more than 200 million copies worldwide. In addition, it is the best-selling PC video game franchise in history.
The Sims 4, the most recent title, is the most commercialized in the series, with approximately 40 million copies shipped. However, it was the previous installments, The Sims, The Sims 2, and The Sims 3, that popularized it as the most successful simulation game of the last 25 years.
Although the base content is free, the expansions, which contain the activities that players do the most, are paid, as are some cosmetic elements for the avatars. These characters – called “Sims” – interact with each other both in homes, public places, and specific activities.
As has been happening since the resounding success of “Super Mario Bros: The Movie”, The Sims joins the trend of adapting Gaming titles for the cinema. However, far from what fans expect, it seems that this new feature film will have many differences in its delivery and its different themes.
What will The Sims movie be like?
LuckyChap, Margot Robbie’s production company, and Amazon MGM Studios will be responsible for this new film. These two companies also worked on the Barbie and Minecraft films, so fans can get an idea of how this project will be carried out.
“It’s one of those things that I can’t talk about much, because it’s going to be unique. And it’s like people wondered, ‘How could a ‘LEGO movie’ be?’ until they saw it,” Roy Lee, a film producer, said in an interview with TheDirect.
According to information from EA, Amazon, MGM Studios, and LuckyChap have been working on this idea since September 2024. And it is expected that it can be ready to be screened in cinemas in 2026. A year already full of important films such as “Toy Story 5”, “Super Mario Galaxy”, and “The Avengers”.
What will The Sims movie resemble?
“I’m working with Margot Robbie. And audiences were probably wondering, “What could a ‘Barbie’ movie be?” At an intermediate point between ‘The Lego Movie’ and ‘Barbie’, there will be The Sims movie,” Roy Lee concluded.
The Sims video game franchise has been around since 2000, but it wasn’t until seven years later that its developers began to seriously consider the possibility of a movie based on the game. A genre that was not very relevant to cinema until a little more than five years ago.
In conclusion, we will have to wait and see what progress this film brings with it and how it stands out against other proposals, both for the big screen and for television. It seems that Gaming is increasingly coming out of consoles and consolidating itself as a lifestyle.
