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'Spore' Movie Helmed By 'Ice Age' Director

by Leila Brillson on October 4, 2009 at 07:35 AM


Thanks to video games, franchises, reboots, and TV shows, Hollywood executives never need to have an original idea again. So take an extremely original idea from the creator of 'Sims' and turn it into a movie with cute, super star-voiced characters and attach a big director and, bam, easy Hollywood bucks. Will Wrights' 'Spore', an evolution, RPG-type game where decisions made as an amoeba affect gameplay down the road during your creature's space age, is about as unique as it gets, and despite its heaping dose of anti-Intelligent Design bias, it has been optioned to go big screen.

Apparently, signed-on director Chris Wedge has some experience dealing with evolution stories. He kicked off the delightful 'Ice Age' original (Thankfully not the sequels. For the sequels, well... see the first sentence.) and works on those adorable Scrat flicks about the downtrodden squirrel, so maybe he'll add quirk and heart to a 'Spore' movie. And hopefully some John Leguizamo, as well. [From: Fidgit]

Tags: movies, sims, spore, top, video games, VideoGames

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