Will there be a film of The Sims?

The Sims and SimCity are weighty benchmarks in the electronic games industry. The two creations by Will Wright are products that maintain a large number of followers over time and introduced a whole new category to the industry through their simulation systems. The first version of SimCity is from 1989 and that of The Sims is from 2000.
It would be very difficult to develop in a few words the importance of cinema in the lives of people and the audiovisual industry. But we can argue that it is an art of more than a hundred years old, that its birth and main function is entertainment and that, throughout history, it has been nourished by different sources to tell stories. That is, the films have been made from popular stories, adaptation of novels, short stories, comics, real events, creations of writers or video game stories.
The latest news about The Sims and rumors about a film adaptation of their world and their characters allows us to think about the link between these two powerful fields of entertainment.

The possible arrival on the big screen

The GWW (The Geeks WorldWide) is a very popular site about current affairs from the cinema, technology and comics. In April 2020, they released important news from The Sims and SimCity. The titles distributed by Electronic Arts would be in the process of filming movies set in their worlds at the Legendary Entertainment studios.
According to the informative portal, both The Sims and SimCity would have their adaptation to the cinema. The information was provided by someone linked to the projects and the company behind the novelty would be Legendary. The audiovisual company already made the creation of a film based on a video game with Warcraft in 2016.

A catastrophe and a romantic comedy

On the SimCity-based feature film, the data available is that it would be a natural disaster or catastrophe story, but in a comedy tone. It would be a parody inspired by the style of the German director Roland Emmerich (Midway, 2012, Tomorrow). The production would include John Silk (Terminator: Salvation, It) and another executive who has already been part of a film and videogame job as Ali Mendes (Pokemon: Detective Pikachu, Godzilla: King of the Monsters).
Around the Sims movie, The GWW source revealed that the characters' actions would take place on the one hand in the real world and on the other within the environment of the popular EA game.
The description of the characters that circulated talks about a female protagonist named Katie, who has a nerdy friend named Cliff. In turn, what seems to be the leading couple, has around them a cast of secondary characters. One would be a musician named Rick, Katie would have an assistant by the name of Cora, there would also be Dennis who would fill the role of an office mate, Jared a womanizing friend and Amanda who would be a pretty and skinny woman who dated Cliff. In turn, in the film would be Pam as the mother of Katie and Bill, a boy who lives in the tree house at the back of the house of the main female protagonist and helps her by giving her advice.

Film and video games, teamwork

The possibility of The Sims and SimCity becoming Legendary Entertainment films allows us to review some aspects of the history of the joint work of these two branches of audiovisual entertainment.
On the one hand, you can think about how video games adopted the way of narrating cinema. This is translated with the appearance of stories with scripts and characters developed in electronic games, which are presented with film techniques such as the use of different planes, special effects or dialogues between protagonists. For example, the historical Resident Evil and its history of the zombie apocalypse in the city Raccoon can be mentioned.
On the other hand, and in view of the great growth of fans and followers of different franchises, the film industry released titles from games such as Super Mario, Mortal Kombat, Warcraft or the recent feature film based on Sonic. The interesting thing about this behavior is that the results in terms of collection and criticism from the public were varied, which means that the world of movies continues without having a strategy that is the "winner" to achieve success.

The latest news about The Sims and its possible adaptation to the cinema together with SimCity allow us to think about the intense relationship that the film environment has had for years with video games and vice versa. The possibility that viewers and players from different consoles are given to get involved in fictional worlds and stories is undoubtedly an attraction that goes beyond where it is done. It can be on a console, on a home PC, or in a movie theater on a giant screen.