We’re in a golden age of strange adaptation, y'all. From Barbie to The Super Mario Bros. Movie, there’s been no shortage of great adaptations made off of unexpected properties recently, and we just got our next weird possibility.
You see, this week it was announced that a live-action Sims movie is in the works, with Barbie’s Margot Robbie tapped to produce and Loki’s Kate Herron set to direct. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Kate will also co-write the screenplay with Briony Redman.
MOVIE NEWS: A #TheSims movie is officially in the works, with Margot Robbie's Luckychap attached to produce, and Kate Herron (Loki) set to direct.
— Fandango (@Fandango) March 21, 2024
More ? news: https://t.co/HgIIlq2SRt pic.twitter.com/mrM7xKm088
Yes, The Sims! Rejoice, 2000s babies.
For those, somehow, not in the know, The Sims is a wildly popular computer simulation game launched in 2003 that allows users to create their own characters by choosing different traits and developing their own little lives and worlds. The game remains ridiculously popular to this day, with some of the top YouTube content creators still playing the game and its various extensions regularly to the tune of millions of views.
Margot’s LuckyChap Entertainment—the production company she runs alongside Tom Ackerley, Josey McNamara, and Sophia Kerr—is a perfect choice to produce the film, given their extensive background working on various adaptations. Per People, the film is still in early development, so very little is known about who will be cast or what storylines they’ll seek to explore.
Naturally, given the game’s massive popularity, fans of the game had a lot of very funny thoughts about the announcement. Here are just a few of the best:
I’m sorry, if a SIMS movie doesn’t have someone drowning their spouse by taking away the pool stairs, I don’t want it.
— Maggie Lovitt (@maggieofthetown) March 20, 2024
She has to have a cameo in The Sims movie. pic.twitter.com/zjB6A3Cfav
— crosimmer (@Crosimmer) March 23, 2024
If there is not a scene where the stepladder to the pool is removed....WE WILL RIOT lol
— Matt Jarbo (@mjarbo) March 20, 2024
The auditions for The Sims movie pic.twitter.com/o908EJELYj
— g (@geogre_j) March 23, 2024
we need her on the writing team for the sims movie pic.twitter.com/Rjad1e8SuO
— ryxn (@itzryxxn) March 21, 2024
The movie will be released in an unfinished state, in honor of The Sims 4. pic.twitter.com/uNATQdxeZ5
— ☣Less Than Zero☣ (@_LessThanZer0_) March 20, 2024
i hope this scene makes it in the sims movie pic.twitter.com/uwFLp9oXfa
— madi ? (@intospidervrse) March 21, 2024
if i have it my way the sims movie will be an existential dark comedy about autonomy / free will
— julia (@juliaannecudney) March 21, 2024
sorry guys 'The Sims Movie' was actually a typo on the writer's part ? ... I didn't want to reveal it like this but it's actually 'The Simney Movie' starring JENNIFER BURB and SIMNEY SPEARS???!!! But um yeah ???!!! pic.twitter.com/tyI5no7drK
— Simney (@SimneySpears) March 21, 2024
please cast me in the Sims movie, I have been waiting my whole Sim life for this https://t.co/gx8gtnoPhY
— Dave Jorgenson (@davejorgenson) March 21, 2024
BREAKING: kate middleton to play the missing bella goth in upcoming "the sims" movie https://t.co/IlpT5Bc2dy pic.twitter.com/fjfEZtnieZ
— steph (@steph0sims) March 21, 2024
if they don’t put my girl crumplebottom in the sims movie i don’t want it pic.twitter.com/NN6LGWlsVN
— madison? (@repswizzle) March 21, 2024
i need her in the sims movie pic.twitter.com/03MLi4YhGU
— eyeslayah (@eyeslayah) March 24, 2024
my honest reaction pic.twitter.com/3ZxTYOS7W1
— ່ (@tylerduran21) March 20, 2024
We’ll have to wait for the film to get further into development before we know more about the plot, or cast, or whether of not the film will be entirely in Simlish.
Basically, in short:
you better not be lying to me about this
— Kayla (@lilsimsie) March 21, 2024
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