Amazon is producing The Sims movie

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

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

EA did not stock immoderate communicative details oregon tease erstwhile the movie mightiness deed theaters, but the information 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 diagnostic LuckyChap is presently producing.