The Sims movie set with Barbie producer Margot Robbie and Loki director

Josie McNamara, Margot Robbie and Tom Ackerley

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The Sims, one of the biggest names in computer gaming, is heading to the big screen.

Kate Heron, best known for directing the first season of the various Marvel series Loki, a facility for processing game modifications in a hot package that arrived at studios and streamers this week. Heron will also co-write the script with Bryony Redman.

LuckyChap, the production company run by Margot Robbie, Tom Ackerley, Josie McNamara and Sophia Kerr, is still basking in the production glow BarbieThe feature will be produced in collaboration with Roy Lee and Miri Yoon of Vertigo Entertainment. Electronic Arts, which published the game, will also participate in the creative and production capacity.

Sims It is a life simulation computer game in which players play as an avatar with changeable personality traits, skills, and relationships, performing the mundane tasks of daily life such as preparing dinner and decorating the house. The game is based on characters with goals and aspirations. They can also, depending on the game, build a family.

After the release of the first game in 2000, the franchise’s suburban setting has been expanded, through sequel and expansion packs, to include an almost endless array of settings and tones such as vacations, show business, dating, high school life, and even magic and vampires. The cast of characters is also endless, although members of the Goth and Landgraab families are among the most popular.

On some level, Sims share similar traits Barbie. The game has no real story and features characters whose lives revolve around them, although players control them. BarbieAs a game, it has no story, it is a puppet with an endless array of careers, which the players control.

Lee, which hits theaters this weekend with Terror Late night with the devilA similar difficulty has developed in adapting an IP to the Lego Movies. These animated features have inspired spin-offs and have drawn hundreds of millions at the box office.

For her part, Heron has shown an affinity for genre-defying material and filmmaking Lokiwith its multiple timelines and universes, in the most-watched Marvel show on Disney+.

Currently, LuckyChap is the most famous production company in Hollywood after its multi-billion dollar success Barbie And the R-rated title Emerald Fennell Saltburn. Next up, the company has a comedy My old asswhich sold out the Sundance Film Festival to MGM Amazon.