Mass Effect Movie

**Paragon** · #1 05-24-2010, 11:40 PM

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The producers behind The Dark Knight and Spider-Man are teaming for Mass Effect, a live-action, big screen adaptation of the Electronic Arts-BioWare videogame.

Legendary Pictures' Thomas Tull and Jon Jashni have acquired the film rights to the game and will produce the movie along with former Marvel Studios honcho Avi Arad and his son Ari Arad. BioWare co-founders Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk will serve as executive producers, as will Mass Effect executive producer Casey Hudson. Warner Bros. will distribute the film.

Furthermore, the producers are in negotiations with screenwriter Mark Protosevich (I Am Legend, Thor) about penning the script. The Mass Effect movie is in the nascent stages of development.

"Mass Effect is a tremendous property ripe for translation to the big screen," said Thomas Tull, Chairman and CEO of Legendary Pictures, in a statement. "Mass Effect is a prime example of the kind of source material we at Legendary like to develop; it has depth, compelling characters and an engaging back story. This coupled with Avi and Ari producing and the skills of a great team adapting the screenplay, are the start of turning this smash videogame based property into a successful feature film."

"We are thrilled to be working with Legendary," said producer Avi Arad. "EA and BioWare are terrific partners who have created a brilliant piece of fiction with a universe filled with amazing aliens and technology. More importantly, though, they created a parable whose conflicts mirror the ones we currently face in our own world. This story emphasizes the need for all cultures to learn to work together. All this magic is presented in a fast paced action-adventure that makes for the best kind of movie experience."

"At BioWare, we've always thought of Mass Effect as having the depth, emotion and plot twists perfectly suited for an adaptation to a motion picture," said Casey Hudson. "With Legendary and Avi and Ari Arad attached, we believe that the Mass Effect movie will be an extraordinary entertainment event that realizes our vision for the franchise and thrills fans."

BioWare's epic science fiction series takes place in the year 2183 and follows Commander Shepard of the SS Normandy who leads a team on a mission to defeat an ancient alien race that invades the galaxy every 50,000 years, wiping out all organic life. The most recent game in the series, Mass Effect 2, was released in January of 2010.

source: ign.com

A movie adaptation of Mass Effect only seems natural. I'm putting my faith in Hollywood!

DK · #2 05-25-2010, 04:53 AM

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I have no faith in these adaptations any more.

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"Mass Effect is a prime example of the kind of source material we at Legendary like to develop; it has depth, compelling characters and an engaging back story."

This is because of the level of interaction you can have with the NPCs. It can't translate to the screen since there's no choice in what the main character does, no time to have long drawn out conversations with the character to discover their past etc.

Unless they make an excruciatingly long 10 hour movie where every character get's a sub plot and decent screen time, the "This awesome movie-like game must be easy to make into an awesome movie" theory is bunk.

When something is made to feel like an epic space drama movie, it should be left at that. Games always have the advantage of time, interactivity, depth and audience satisfaction over movies. It's always a downgrade when all the features which make it popular (characters, plot, action) get shaved, peeled, stripped, hacked and shaped into a 2hr long cutscene.

**Elarius** · #3 05-25-2010, 05:09 AM

I'll keep an open mind for this, considering the producers of the Dark Knight being behind it, I am sceptical but the material is there for it to succeed, will see but this and the Warcraft movie might turn out to be good since the companies that make the games are also behind them and both Bioware and Blizzard know how to make good storytelling but how it turns out as a movie is another thing, if on the other hand Hollywood takes too much control of them they are probably bound to fail.

If they follow the games the casting of Miranda will be straighforward, but as for Shepard? maybe Matthew Fox in the role of Jack.... I mean John Shepard(pun intended) will be suitable.

Edit: Oh and Seth Green as Joker please.

~~Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez~~ · #4 05-25-2010, 10:23 AM

It might work if they base it on the first Mass Effect because that had a good story.

Mass Effect 2 had a horrible story however

BlackFAG · #5 05-25-2010, 11:36 AM

They better not fuck this movie up >.>

ismey · #6 05-27-2010, 01:29 PM

if they must make a mass effect movie they have to keep seth green as joker.......

xTHHxAimiForevr · #7 05-27-2010, 06:08 PM

They're really trending on the video game scene now that the whole super hero remake thing is getting old. I want a Shadow of Colossus movie

ShadowAbarai · #8 05-27-2010, 11:16 PM

I'm currently not sure what to say/think about hearing this news. As with other video games that have been turned into movies it can go horribly wrong *cough* Resident Evil *cough* honestly was a huge disappointment especially having played the games. I just don't want to get my hopes up for something that might not turn out to be what I expected.

Of course there's the added difficulty of taking a game and turning it into something that will translate well on screen i.e. movie form. The story is there but as everyone has said the individual choices that everyone made while playing the game are not so it will be very interesting how they take everything all the back story, secondary characters their backstories, etc and write a halfway decent screenplay and then turn it into a movie. Then there's the casting and the only thing I have to say about that is they had damn well better have Seth Green as Joker if they don't *shakes head* honestly it would be a stupid move on their part. They also better have an extremely talented special effects/makeup artist for the alien characters and not just CG them, that would piss me off too lol.

Again I'm sure there are other video games that have been turned into movie Mario Bros. is one that just popped into my head not to mention I'm sure there's a huge list of others. Kayne & Lynch, Hitman etc. I just honestly don't know how I feel about Mass Effect being made into a movie.

For now I won't get my hopes up but I also won't completely disregard it until more is revealed about it.

*MCAV* · #9 05-28-2010, 12:24 AM

I have no faith in hollywood P, but I'll keep an open mind considering the makers of Dark Knight are behind it.

Vyraeil · #10 05-28-2010, 05:56 PM

Well, to be totally honest, Mass Effect was basically like a movie anyway. The only thing it won't have is our Shepards dicking around trying to level up and get some more Renegade points before the game finishes.
Provided they've got the Bioware guys and the ME producer on board, I can see this happening well. Just because Hollywood fucks up more often than not, doesn't mean it always will.

Now if they could get Joss Whedon to direct... that would be perfect.

#3 05-25-2010, 05:09 AM
Elarius I am the law Elite Quincy Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: UK Age: 28 Posts: 3,024 Gender: Blog Entries: 1	I'll keep an open mind for this, considering the producers of the Dark Knight being behind it, I am sceptical but the material is there for it to succeed, will see but this and the Warcraft movie might turn out to be good since the companies that make the games are also behind them and both Bioware and Blizzard know how to make good storytelling but how it turns out as a movie is another thing, if on the other hand Hollywood takes too much control of them they are probably bound to fail. If they follow the games the casting of Miranda will be straighforward, but as for Shepard? maybe Matthew Fox in the role of Jack.... I mean John Shepard(pun intended) will be suitable. Edit: Oh and Seth Green as Joker please. __________________ Last edited by Elarius; 05-25-2010 at 08:36 AM

#4 05-25-2010, 10:23 AM
~~Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez~~ Banned Special Ops Soldier Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: UK Age: 21 Posts: 1,054 Gender:	It might work if they base it on the first Mass Effect because that had a good story. Mass Effect 2 had a horrible story however

#5 05-25-2010, 11:36 AM
BlackFAG White Knight Gotei 13 Shinigami Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: In the light Age: 23 Posts: 845 Gender:	They better not fuck this movie up >.>

#6 05-27-2010, 01:29 PM
ismey scottish guy Shinigami Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: scotland Age: 24 Posts: 543 Gender:	if they must make a mass effect movie they have to keep seth green as joker....... __________________ "You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else." Einstein

#8 05-27-2010, 11:16 PM
ShadowAbarai See you, sorry. Rukongai Citizen Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Orlando, FL Age: 29 Posts: 159 Gender:	I'm currently not sure what to say/think about hearing this news. As with other video games that have been turned into movies it can go horribly wrong cough Resident Evil cough honestly was a huge disappointment especially having played the games. I just don't want to get my hopes up for something that might not turn out to be what I expected. Of course there's the added difficulty of taking a game and turning it into something that will translate well on screen i.e. movie form. The story is there but as everyone has said the individual choices that everyone made while playing the game are not so it will be very interesting how they take everything all the back story, secondary characters their backstories, etc and write a halfway decent screenplay and then turn it into a movie. Then there's the casting and the only thing I have to say about that is they had damn well better have Seth Green as Joker if they don't shakes head honestly it would be a stupid move on their part. They also better have an extremely talented special effects/makeup artist for the alien characters and not just CG them, that would piss me off too lol. Again I'm sure there are other video games that have been turned into movie Mario Bros. is one that just popped into my head not to mention I'm sure there's a huge list of others. Kayne & Lynch, Hitman etc. I just honestly don't know how I feel about Mass Effect being made into a movie. For now I won't get my hopes up but I also won't completely disregard it until more is revealed about it.

#9 05-28-2010, 12:24 AM
MCAV I'm Dutch, you're irrelevant. Espada Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Vuren Age: 25 Posts: 10,280 Gender: Blog Entries: 4	I have no faith in hollywood P, but I'll keep an open mind considering the makers of Dark Knight are behind it. __________________ Maturity is knowing you were an idiot in the past Wisdom is knowing you'll be an idiot in the future Common sense is knowing you're an idiot now

#10 05-28-2010, 05:56 PM
Vyraeil Mod Soul Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Sunnydale Posts: 397 Gender:	Well, to be totally honest, Mass Effect was basically like a movie anyway. The only thing it won't have is our Shepards dicking around trying to level up and get some more Renegade points before the game finishes. Provided they've got the Bioware guys and the ME producer on board, I can see this happening well. Just because Hollywood fucks up more often than not, doesn't mean it always will. Now if they could get Joss Whedon to direct... that would be perfect.