Mass Effect movie in the pipeline
 

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EA sells rights to Mass Effect film | bit-tech

;) Well, I figured if we're never gonna get a Gabriel Knight movie, this one looks to be an even sweeter deal.

I'm just relieved that Uwe "I-make-lousy-ass-movies-with-taxpayer-money" Boll didn't get his fugly hands on this baby. Whew! Let's hope it doesn't tank like all the other game-to-movie disasters (though I still have yet to see Prince of Persia).

I'll let my hopes fly only when I'll see the names of the director and the writer. But it could be great. Oh yes, it could be awesome, if they don't try to mimick the games and simply delve farther into the setting: there are a lot of interesting ideas in ME's codex (both the first and the second one) and it's only a matter of staying faithful to the material.

Could it turn out to be a 'straight to video' affair? Maybe even an animation straight to video affair (like the Dead Space movie).

If it does wind up as live action, I wonder how it'll effect 'canon-shep' who uses a male model's face. I'm not expecting big things, Mass Effect's appeal (imo) is that it lets you fan edit a rather generic sci-fi plot. A movie just takes away that fun interaction, leaving a generic sci fi story that isn't 'yours'.

I'm with mr. Crunchy on this one.

somehow I doubt the movie will be about Shepard, there's no way to make it consistent with the games and the game trilogy is not yet complete so it's too early to try to retcon a 'cannon' Shepard into existence
more likely it'll focus on a parallel storyline like the books do, or be a prequel focussing on the First Contact War

This I could see. Mashing the timeline up a little so it becomes 2001 a space odyssey (find the prothean becon on mars), meets Starship Troopers (Shanxi, 314 incident). Make sure one of the characters is exposed to element zero and has a biotic bootcamp montage sequence, throw in a Firefly influenced independent cargo vessel captain and the movie's half written its self.

Still, not too great expectations. It's just another sci-fi war movie. The universe is just too... "usual" for anything else if one is concentrating on these major events.

In my opinion the only way that the movie could actually be interesting is that it wouldn't focus on the major incidents (mainly wars) but have a very independent, smaller-scale storyline not trying so hard to have as many references to the games as possible. Because that would allow for something original and actually interesting instead of just the usual fight - love - big fight thing these things have.

And you know the characters are just going to be machos. Especially if there's the "biotic bootcamp" stuff that you mentioned :P