Today in "embarrasingly bad idea for a movie" news
Variety reports that Fox has optioned the rights to a movie based on...
(wait for it...)
THE SIMS
No, really. Someone thinks that this will make a good movie.
To top things off, the project's producer's previous projects include Garfield 2, Norbit, and Fat Albert, and the writer was one of the roughly 58 people who worked on the Scary Movie 3 script.