Street walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} tritium) wrote,@ 2008-03-06 11:41:00 |
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No one will be seated during the breathtaking "watching TV" sequence
The most mindblowing article I've read this week (yes, moreso than SRFI 71) is an article in Variety. It's about a movie in early development, which means it's likely never to happen, but still. Apparently, Fox Studios has acquired the rights to and is planning to make a movie based on...
...The Sims. The video game. Yes, THAT video game. And why not? There are so many reasons it'll make a great film!
* Compelling characters: the down-to-earth charm of Bob Newbie, the mystery of the Goth family, the... actually, there are no other pre-made characters, all the rest are created, described and developed by the player.
* Gripping plot: Who could forget that moment in the game when August McDoodlesmacker took ninety minutes to get from the living room to the kitchen and then passed out from exhaustion? Or when Gertie Underblupperson spent three hundred simoleons on an objet d'art only to discover that it was hideously ugly?
* Dramatic conflict: Gunther McDoodlesmacker wants to use the toilet, but can't because of the presence of August, who is inexplicably holding a conversation with Cynthia Glamrockstar in the bathroom. Will August and Cynthia take their discussion of the weather, skiing and banking elsewhere? Will Gunther wind up pissing himself?
So, yeah, I'm totally looking forward to it, especially since the script will be written by the guy who wrote "Scary Movie 3."
The most mindblowing article I've read this week (yes, moreso than SRFI 71) is an article in Variety. It's about a movie in early development, which means it's likely never to happen, but still. Apparently, Fox Studios has acquired the rights to and is planning to make a movie based on...
...The Sims. The video game. Yes, THAT video game. And why not? There are so many reasons it'll make a great film!
* Compelling characters: the down-to-earth charm of Bob Newbie, the mystery of the Goth family, the... actually, there are no other pre-made characters, all the rest are created, described and developed by the player.
* Gripping plot: Who could forget that moment in the game when August McDoodlesmacker took ninety minutes to get from the living room to the kitchen and then passed out from exhaustion? Or when Gertie Underblupperson spent three hundred simoleons on an objet d'art only to discover that it was hideously ugly?
* Dramatic conflict: Gunther McDoodlesmacker wants to use the toilet, but can't because of the presence of August, who is inexplicably holding a conversation with Cynthia Glamrockstar in the bathroom. Will August and Cynthia take their discussion of the weather, skiing and banking elsewhere? Will Gunther wind up pissing himself?
So, yeah, I'm totally looking forward to it, especially since the script will be written by the guy who wrote "Scary Movie 3."
