Amazon is producing The Sims movie

Reports astir a movie based connected The Sims have been circulating for a while now, but Electronic Arts has conscionable officially announced that a big-screen adjustment of the deed crippled bid is successful the works.

In a lengthy blog station detailing immoderate of its upcoming projects, EA announced coming that Amazon MGM Studios will beryllium the workplace down a movie based connected The Sims cowritten by Briony Redman and Kate Herron, who will besides direct. Previously, the duo wrote together for the caller Doctor Who series, and Herron directed the entirety of Loki’s first play for Disney Plus.

EA did not stock immoderate communicative specifications aliases tease erstwhile the movie mightiness deed theaters, but the truth that the task is being coproduced by Margot Robbie’s LuckyChap suggests that it mightiness person a definite Barbie quality to it erstwhile it yet releases. It’s easier to ideate The Sims lending itself to a compelling movie than, say, Monopoly — different game-inspired characteristic LuckyChap is presently producing.