Mass Effect Movie

[Krakalakachkn]

Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures have scored feature film rights to BioWare’s hit video game franchise "Mass Effect" according to a press release from Electronic Arts Inc.

 

The 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 second game in a planned trilogy hit this past January and scored rave reviews all over the world. Mark Protosevich (I Am Legend, Thor) is in discussions to draft a screenplay.

 

Thomas Tull, Jon Jashni, Avi and Ari Arad will produce.

[WWWwombat]

Awesome.  Too bad canonShep is kinda lame.

[alannalynn]

Too bad Shepard is gonna be a dude. lol. I played through as girl Shepard, as did my stepdad (though he had other intentions...), and it'll be weird, but.... yeah, I dunno. I'm still against any game being turned into a movie.

[Krakalakachkn]

Back in July Legendary Pictures held their first San Diego Comic Con panel with one of the big projects discussed being a film adaptation of the hit video game series "Mass Effect".

 

Legendary asked fans to tweet questions to the panelists but with time constraints, many questions went unanswered. Now, Gamefront has discovered an article containing several questions and corresponding answers from the company about the project.

 

Amongst the new information gathered is that the film will be a completely new story, not tied to the previous two games or the upcoming third one. Asked if the film is the first in a possible trilogy, the response was "We are really focused on making this a great movie, so we'll see where it takes us. We have to get the first one right to know whether there will be more."

 

Legendary is working closely with BioWare on the development of this project and they can't give any hints about the casting other than confirming that actor Seth Green will not be playing Joker, the pilot character he voices in the game. They also say the movie is focused on the Commander Shepard character (the male version).