Margot Robbie to produce new The Sims movie based on the computer game following success of Barbie

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Margot Robbie is ready to produce The Sims, a movie based on the iconic computer game.

Following the success of Barbie, her production firm LuckyChap will work on the function together with Roy Lee and Miri Yoon of Vertigo Entertainment.

Electronic Arts, which revealed the game, can even be concerned in a artistic and producing capability, in accordance to Variety.

The Sims is one of the best-selling reside simulation video video games of all time, after practically 200 million copies have been bought worldwide.

Fans have insisted that the movie needs to be in “only simlish, no subtitles” referring to the gibberish language spoken by characters, or there will probably be “no point”.

Others have been overjoyed at Robbie’s involvement in the manufacturing after the record-breaking field workplace success of Barbie.

“Margot I will support you no matter what. I hope this will be strange and weird and beautiful,” wrote one consumer on X/Twitter.

Others stated their love for Barbie means they are going to be watching the movie regardless. “They made Barbie work really well. I’m interested to see how this turns out,” wrote one fan.

Some movie followers hoped for an additional epic clashing of blockbusters – like when Barbie and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer was launched on the similar day – saying: “We need a political war movie to release at the same time so that we can come up with more ‘Barbenheimer’ style names”.

LuckyChap Entertainment, which has produced the likes of Barbie, Saltburn and Dreamland, is run by Robbie, her husband Tom Ackerley, Josey McNamara and Sophia Kerr.

Kate Herron, who’s best-known for steering season one of the genre-bending Marvel collection Loki, is anticipated to write The Sims alongside Briony Redman. The pair have beforehand labored collectively on writing for BBC’s Doctor Who.

A solid for the movie has not but been introduced and a manufacturing studio is but to be confirmed.

In 2007, movie rights to The Sims had been bought by twentieth Century Fox, with the live-action drama movie to be written by Brian Lynch and produced by John Davis.

In 2019, the movie’s improvement was cancelled following the acquisition of twentieth Century Fox by Disney.