John Davis talks THE SIMS, JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS, ALIEN VS. PREDATOR 3

John Davis, the producer behind several interesting upcoming projects, spoke to Collider at a Roundtable Interview this week giving us updates on THE SIMS, JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS remake and ALIEN VS. PREDATOR 3.

THE SIMS

The Sims, as you know, you can control your imaginary world, right? And our movie, a young man, a 16 year old kid of a 14 year old kid and his friend get their hands on this thing called the Sims Infinity Pack, right, which kind of this very strange video game store which was there just for that moment, and seemingly wasn€™t all that. But what they realize is that they can scan their world in, because this is the most life like, real Sims game ever. And as they are playing this they are all of a sudden realizing is what they are playing on the game is having an effect on the real world. So in effect, through the game, they are able to control their world. It€™s wish fulfillment, and obviously it turns against them.

Davis says you wouldn't be wrong to compare the movie to WEIRD SCIENCE and that the third act where a big nemesis attempts to get his hands on the game is incredible.

JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS

Zack Penn€™s writing it. A lot of huge directors have been knocking at our door, including one of the biggest ever. The one of the biggest ever is really interested in the idea of all that stuff, and I think that a realistic version of Jason, where you basically deal with a guy who€™s a doubter in a world were everybody believes, still, in the gods and the gods influencing our world, and starts to become a believer, but very slowly because he can€™t explain all this stuff. And it€™s at the time were we were going from the idea of many gods to one, so there€™s a lot of historical cool things there. You know, Jason was based on a great Greek myth, right, but it€™s that great story of . . . You know, all those Greek tragedies have the greatest of human foibles, the greatest of human downfalls embodied in them, and I think this has that. And so it€™s a more realistic version of all that.

He also confirms there will be swords and skeletons, confirming that their new version will include a new take on the most famous imagery from the great 60's original film.

ALIEN VS. PREDATOR 3

Davis confirms that despite making money, ALIEN VS. PREDATOR: REQUIEM has killed that franchise and it's unlikely there will be a third battle. Interestingly, he claims when Arnold Schwarznegger leaves office he thinks he could be convinced to return for a PREDATOR reboot if they came up with a good angle on it. YOU CAN LISTEN TO THE WHOLE UN-EDITED COLLIDER INTERVIEW HERE!