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“Garfield” producer bringing PC game to cinemas
“Garfield” producer John Davis is set to bring computer game “The SIMS” to the big screen.
The five-year-old franchise is the best selling PC game in history, with worldwide sales topping 85 million, bringing in over $1.6 billion. Pic will be a live-action version.
According to Variety, Steve Asbell is overseeing the project for Fox with SIMS Studio head Rod Humble managing the creative property for Electronic Arts. Brian Lynch (“Scary Movie 3”) 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.”
