Did someone say Sims movie?!
Did someone say Sims movie?!
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What’s that? The sound of the Sims talking. According to recent reports from outlets like the Hollywood Reporter and Screenrant, a Sims movie *may* be in the works. Even better, Margot Robbie is to set to produce with Loki’s Katie Herron directing.
Lilsimsie, a prominent Sims YouTuber whose real name is Kayla Sims, shared her thoughts on the adaptation in a recent video. She said she thinks it’s a “great idea” for both the Sims community and society at large.
“Number one, it’s just so fun, so I’d like people to have the chance to the remember that. I think it would be cool for them to revisit that childhood nostalgia,” Kayla Sims said in the YouTube video. “But number two, maybe people would take us more seriously because the gaming community as a whole does not like The Sims, they think it’s like ‘cringe’ and a ‘girl game.’”
Recent video game adaptations include the Five Nights at Freddy’s movie (my review here) and The Last of Us TV series. I really enjoyed both of these in their own ways. The FNAF1 movie was a fun play on the original source material, great as entertainment for a younger target audience not pressed on the lore2. The Last of Us adaptation, while I haven’t played the game, had great character arcs and did a fantastic job with costuming and set.
Kayla Sims also made a good point about Margot Robbie’s involvement in the movie, saying that Sims and Barbie are comparable franchises – they’re both “basically dolls,” they target similar audiences like “the girlies,” and they have no real narrative due to open play, leaving potential for original story plot.
The internet complains a lot about Hollywood not having “new,” ideas, hence having to resort to books, comics, and video games for inspiration. I don’t think this is necessarily a bad thing, since it brings more attention to artists’ work and lets well-developed ideas get a chance. Dragging the franchises on after they’ve peaked (cough, Marvel) is what gets annoying.
The FNAF movie will be a good test of this, as the ending was left open for a sequel, and the video games themselves contain a ridiculous amount of material to work with. “After the video game adaptation's impressive box office gross, we wouldn't be surprised if a sequel announcement is just around the corner,” an NBC article poses.
Aside from what happens with that, a Sims movie has a whole lot of potential, especially with an A-List star like Margot Robbie backing it.
Kayla Sims expressed interest in the film having Sims Easter eggs, but said it was probably unlikely characters like Bella Goth, well-known to the Sims community, would be the focus of the movie, since the film would want to appeal to a larger audience. She also said EA, the Sims’ parent company, could bring outfits or locations from the movie into the game itself.
Kayla Sims worries the adaptation could be “cringe” and has “some deep fears about this being a disaster,” but is overall excited.
“I just really love the Sims and this is such a cool chance for us to get a really weird, niche movie out of it, but there’s been talk about a Sims movie forever so I don’t know if it’s actually going to end up happening,” she said.
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