Spore: game with no plot to become movie with no plot

Another videogame-based movie is on the way, this time based on Spore, a game famous for angering pirates and entertaining the childish.

Evolution-based videogame Spore from The Sims creator Will Wright has been optioned by Fox and will be turned into an animated CG movie by Chris Wedge, the director of Ice Age.

This is despite the fact that Spore is a user-generated game that sees players create their own lifeform from scratch and evolve it over time. Sure to go down well in the American south, this one.

In fact, Spore is mostly famous for being a game that launched with horrendously unfair DRM, becoming one of the most illegally downloaded games ever in the process. Users that did buy and play it found that the most entertaining thing you could do was fashion hideous penis monsters and post videos of them on YouTube.

It's fair to say that Spore: The Movie probably won't be gracing too many Academy voting forms when it's released in 2011.