Larger Than Life
Originally published at Lost Without You. Please leave any comments there.
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“Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.” - Bertrand Russell
In the recent trend of turning games into movies, The Sims is now going to be made into a movie, according to Variety. The screenplay will be written by Brian Lynch and produced by John Davis, who is famous for movies such as Norbit, When A Stranger Calls, and Eragon. It’s going to be a ‘live-action version’, probably with actors and actresses as opposed to animations. From the Variety site:
20th Century Fox has acquired feature rights to the life simulation computer game “The SIMS” from Electronic Arts, and has set project up with Fox-based John Davis.
Steve Asbell is overseeing the project for Fox with SIMS Studio head Rod Humble managing the creative property for Electronic Arts. Brian Lynch will script; story is under wraps with talent yet to be named.
“‘The SIMS has done an interactive version of an old story, which is what it’s like to have infinite power and how do you deal with it,” said Humble. “Given that that’s an old story, you can imagine how easily that would translate to traditional story telling.”
Lynch scripted and helmed upcoming “Big Helium Dog,” and penned “Scary Movie 3,” and is managed by Benderspink.
I’m a huge fan of The Sims games, but this is one of the silliest ideas I’ve ever heard! It sounds like it’s doomed to fail right from the start. I guess it does depend on the way they go about it though. It might be one of those films with a bizarre idea that works, but I just don’t see what they could possibly do with the idea. It might just be another movie with a famous title attached to it and nothing more. I think Fargo said it best in his blog when he joked about the movie being a satire on our Ikea lifestyles: “I can’t wait for the scene where Mortimer Goth, played by Antonio Banderas, buys a couch. There won’t be a dry eye in the house.”
In other news, my mum and I went to the annual Food Festival in our suburb last weekend. It’s a festival where different cultures set up stalls to sell food renown in their culture. It’s mostly Asian stalls because of the abundance of Asians in our suburb, but there were a few other stalls too. We bought a few dishes from different stalls. It was great! I’ve always enjoyed trying out food from different cultures.
I’ve managed to catch another cold. I think this is my second one this year. I really don’t look after myself very well. I wish I could blame the change of seasons, but it’s really my fault for not taking better care of my health.
