Here’s another head scratcher of a movie coming down the production pipeline over at 20th Century Fox. According to Variety, Fox is teaming up with EA to bring Will Wright’s evolutionary sim game Spore to the big screen as a CG-animated film. The game allows you invent a creature that can be guided over time from single-celled organism through to complex, intelligent species to an advanced civilization capable of intergalactic travel. Chris Wedge (Ice Age, Robots) will direct from a script that is being written by Greg Erb and Jason Oremland (The Princess and the Frog).

As crazy as this sounds, it still makes a little more sense than The Sims movie which is apparently in development. At least with this I can see it being similar to Pokemon or the animated adaptation of the Ricky Gervais book Flanimals, although the screenwriters will have a lot more room to create their own characters and storyline. Either way, this movie may still be a ways off, since Wedge is also attached to direct Leaf Men for Fox and the live action flick The Invention of Hugo Cabret for Warner Brothers. What do you think? Stupid idea or really stupid idea? What will be the next non-plot-driven game to hit the big screen?