EA’s long-running life simulation sequence The Sims is being tailored right into a film, in response to The Hollywood Reporter.The mission will likely be directed by Kate Herron, who beforehand directed season considered one of Loki for Disney+ and 4 episodes of Intercourse Eduction season one for Netflix. Herron will reportedly additionally co-write the screenplay.Margot Robbie’s manufacturing firm LuckyChap (which Robbie runs alongside Tom Ackerly, Josey McNamara, and Sophia Kerr) is on deck to provide, along side Roy Lee and Miri Yoon of Vertigo Leisure, in addition to Digital Arts itself. No different particulars on the upcoming movie can be found at this stage, so it’s unknown what number of Sims will drown following the elimination of the ladder after they leap within the pool.Created by iconic recreation designer Will Wright (the creator of 1989’s pioneering SimCity), The Sims was first launched in early 2000. With over 20 years of sequels and expansions below its belt (and greater than 200 million copies offered) The Sims is among the best-selling online game sequence off all time.This isn’t the primary time a film primarily based on The Sims has been within the works; again in 2007 Fox was gearing up for its personal live-action adaptation of the sequence, but it surely floundered in improvement limbo for over a decade earlier than being formally cancelled in 2019 within the wake of the Disney-Fox merger.Luke is a Senior Editor on the IGN evaluations staff. You’ll be able to chat to him on Twitter @MrLukeReilly.