Mass Effect the movie.

[PriSM]

Originally Posted by RocShemp

I've seen it before and get why fans would want it but, frankly, it's too "convenient".

I get that maybe they'd want to throw a curve at the audience. It really all comes down to personal taste though. For me, I'd prefer for her not to look like a Grey. But I think everyone can agree on what they wound up doing was the worst way to go.

[Snicket]

Originally Posted by csdot

What are you talking about? There are several options for a male protagonist in RE and Underworld was an entirely new property they couldve done whatever they wanted. Furthermore both franchises have had longer legs than most male-led movies of the genre.

Those films were conceived and executed with female characters built into them exclusively. Mass Effect was not. Yet again, those films are exceptions.

[csdot]

Originally Posted by Snicket

Those films were conceived and executed with female characters built into them exclusively. Mass Effect was not. Yet again, those films are exceptions.

how do you know what the plan is for the Mass Effect film? they CHOSE to make those characters female and those movies were successful. they (RE in particular) are absolutely comparable.

[kristoffer]

I hope they get Neill Blomkamp to do it.

[kristoffer]

The "Mass Effect" Film Coming Nov 2016?
http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/321...oming-nov-2016

[Samus Aran]

What if instead of picking male or female Shep, they went with both and had two leads?

Mass Effect, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Maggie Gylenhaal.

[tigertron]

Originally Posted by Samus Aran

What if instead of picking male or female Shep, they went with both and had two leads?

Mass Effect, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Maggie Gylenhaal.

Get out! NOW!

but yeah, femshep would be great. Whoever plays femshep should be dubbed by Jennifer Hale.

[Thomas Guycott]

I already played this movie, but thanks.

[LegacyCosts]

If Seth Green isn't joker, it's a no go. Have John Goodman play wrex? ha.

[tigertron]

Originally Posted by LegacyCosts

If Seth Green isn't joker, it's a no go. Have John Goodman play wrex? ha.

It would be a crime against humanity not to make Seth Green Joker.

[CouncilSpectre]

Thought they'd already confirmed Sheploo for the movie....

This will either be very good, or very bad. Wouldn't like to call it yet.

[iamsometal]

I fear that Mass Effect is just one of those un-adaptable projects. The games themselves were already so cinematic, I'm coming to the realization that I did in fact "play" a 90 hour Mass Effect film over the course of the 3 games. Making a film with the same scope as just Mass Effect 1 would require an insanely high budget.

I doubt it will happen, but IF they successfully adapt this, I pray that they'll not attempt to combine more than one game into one film. ME 1 is easily enough material for 1 or 2 films by itself. I hope that if they do choose to make the films Shepard-centric, they focus on the Shepard vs. Saren story alone for ME 1.

[kristoffer]

I would love Fem Shep, but I just know it will be a male lead.

[Tony208]

Just make it like Guardians except much darker.

[LegacyCosts]

Originally Posted by Tony208

Just make it like Guardians except much darker.

The two aren't overly comparable minus the whole space setting.

Mass Effect's plots are pretty dense but for one film, shep chasing saren across the galaxy isn't too far fetched nor too complex to write a decent screen play out of though. A blade runner synth like score and practical effects/make up for the asari/krogan/turians would make my dreams come true. However I know neither would happen as it'd be a bland orchestral score (mass effect 3) with cgi races.

[Maggot]

I played all 3 games in the series and loved every one of them, but I seriously doubt this can be pulled off. Game franchise movies don't have a good history and a very dialog/story driven game like Mass Effect and it's interaction on so many levels is going to be next to impossible to make work on the screen. For one, you're going from a well regarded, INTERACTIVE experience to a sit back and watch one and given the quality of the games......an absolutely horrendous idea.

[Optimus]

Originally Posted by Maggot

I played all 3 games in the series and loved every one of them, but I seriously doubt this can be pulled off. Game franchise movies don't have a good history and a very dialog/story driven game like Mass Effect and it's interaction on so many levels is going to be next to impossible to make work on the screen. For one, you're going from a well regarded, INTERACTIVE experience to a sit back and watch one and given the quality of the games......an absolutely horrendous idea.

I pretty much agree with you 100%.

[Mandalorian]

Originally Posted by OptimusL

I pretty much agree with you 100%.

I'm not sure I do. Yes, video game movies have a poor track record, but this game series is already very cinematic. Give me a 3-hour Sci-Fi opus, with the focus on recruiting the unique characters that eventually make up Shepard's team, and I'm cloud nining it all the way.

[Maggot]

Here's the biggest issue of them all: Hollywood choosing to create a movie from a video game when they apparently don't have imagination nor writing skill to make something up on their own.

Then you'll have some director and a CGI team throw gobs of special effects at it. Like irresponsible teenage boys with their fathers sports car wrapping themselves around a pole, but we'll get a mess of a movie for their misguided efforts.

[Mandalorian]

Originally Posted by Maggot

Here's the biggest issue of them all: Hollywood choosing to create a movie from a video game when they apparently don't have imagination nor writing skill to make something up on their own.

Then you'll have some director and a CGI team throw gobs of special effects at it. Like irresponsible teenage boys with their fathers sports car wrapping themselves around a pole, but we'll get a mess of a movie for their misguided efforts.

That's a fair assessment given Hollywood's past with the subgenre, but I'm still counting on Duncan Jones' World of Warcraft to be the first truly great video game movie.