Okay, “it’s rubbish” isn’t exactly what John Davis, producer of I, Robot, Alien Vs. Predator, Dr. Dolittle and the upcoming The Sims movie adaption said when talking about his future game-inspired project. As revealed back in July, EA have signed a deal with the United Talent Agency in Hollywood to produce TV and film adaptions of their games, two of which were The Sims and the Wii/DS spinoff MySims (which we, er, also revealed).
Find out what he actually said after the jump. It’s much better than “it’s rubbish”. Well, it’s a little more expansive, anyway.
As revealed earlier this week EA have signed a deal with the United Talent Agency, giving the developer access to Hollywood’s hottest actors, writers, producers and directors. 20th Century Fox has already confirmed it’s working on a big-screen adaption of The Sims and an animated TV spin-off of the Wii and DS counterpart MySims.
Sarcastic Gamer has received the exclusive first draft of ideas for the MySims cartoon, including character designs, locations and scripts. Hit the jump for the lot!
Edge Online (formerly Next Generation) is reporting that Electronic Arts have signed a deal with the United Talent Agency in Hollywood to bring their franchises to the big screen. The deal with the acting and writing agency will allow EA unparalleled access to scriptwriters, actors, producers and directors so their IPs can be converted to a less interactive, more watchable format.
Hit the jump for more on this, and prepare to cower under your seats once you find out what franchise EA has lined up for your nearest cinema first.
Boy, you and I sure have had some great times together. At one point, an entire shelf of my computer desk was dedicated just to hold all of the imaginative and thrilling titles you published or produced. Back then, you probably caused more children to be obese from sedentary lifestyles, than lawsuits from overworked employees. But alas, times do change.
Our love/hate relationship has evolved into a just plain ‘hate’ relationship. I don’t think I can continue living in this abusive tango. Remember that time you slapped me, EA? JUST REPEATEDLY SLAPPED ME ACROSS THE FACE with not ONE, not TWO, but THIRTY-FREAKIN-FIVE different The Sims titles, expansion packs, stuff packs, compilation packs, fanny packs, and Pakistanis for my PC? I’m sick of spending my nights crying alone, in the dark, wondering just whatever happened to SimAnt 2. You dissolve your best developers, forget to beta test the Battlefield series, and crank out steaming piles of crap fit only to be played by the blind community (or maybe for just people without senses at all).
It’s over. We’re through.Until you, you know, build up media hype for your next game and I get suckered into buying it.
Yours truly,
A Consumer
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Source: Kotaku EA Sports, EA Games, EA Casual Entertainment and The Sims. Those are the four new sections of Electronic Arts. Each independent of the other, I guess with the exception of the huge monetary tributes they’ll have to pay to the motherland.
The first three categories make sense to me, but it seems a real gamble to create a whole division of your company based on one title. Granted, its a wildly successful title.
Maybe EA will expand to include another division in the near future. The “Buy up every license possible so no one can compete with us division” kinda has a nice sound to it. Don’t you agree?
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