Mass Effect movie adaptation detailed
A Legendary Pictures Q&A has spilled a few early details about the upcoming Mass Effect movie.
Mass Effect is getting a film treatment, and a few of the additional details have slipped out. Following Comic-Con, Legendary Pictures held a fan Q&A which has revealed that the movie will, unsurprisingly, feature the male version of Shepard. When asked if the movie will be a trilogy, the production team simply responded: "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."
The Q&A (via Eurogamer) doesn't offer any casting hints, though it did say that Seth Green will not reprise his role as Joker. Legendary is working with BioWare on developing the story, with Dr. Greg Zeschuk and Ray Muzyka are serving as executive producers. According to the Q&A, BioWare will "allow plot / character changes." Maybe Kaidan will actually be interesting this time around?
Legendary has a solid history of co-producing smart sci-fi action films, like the Nolan Batman series, Watchmen, and Inception. It's currently also developing movies adaptations of the Gears of War and Warcraft franchises.
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Only if femshep
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a fan Q&A which has revealed that the movie will, unsurprisingly, feature the male version of Shepard. sorry, bro.
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Uwe Boll is gonna punch you inna head!
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Uwe won't do anything now that German law doesn't bankroll international releases =)
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First Mortal Kombat was okay. It hasn't aged well though.
Just because nobody has done a great one doesn't mean it can't happen. The biggest problem is that most gaming IPs haven't been seriously tackled. Just exploited due to their popularity. Prince of Persia was probably the most honest attempt and they didn't really stick to the lore of the game.
Also, the people involved in these adaptations don't know anything about the IP to begin with. That's a huge problem. At least here Bioware is involved.-
The biggest problem is that most gaming IPs haven't been seriously tackled.
This is it. Videogame movies are still waiting for their X-Men.
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I thought the first and second RE movies were pretty alright.
Someone posted a fan-made movie for Portal a week or so ago that was pretty badass, but I'm not sure how well it would translate if it were fully adapted. Link posted below for those who haven't seen it.
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and MAYBE silent hill. all others were really bad
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Yup, this is true. But it has to happen at some point. Somebody somewhere sometime, even if it's through sheer dumb luck, has to make a good videogame based movie. So why not hope it'll be Mass Effect?
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The Tomb Raider movies were okay. Not great.
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I will lmao if this comes out before WarCraft.
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My Shep: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0257969/
EA's Shep: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0864308/
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Legendary Films keeps my jaded opinion towards Hollywood in check, especially on the sci-fi front. Wish more of the tards in Hollywood would read some decent sci-fi novels before thinking they're qualified to write a script. All in all though, 2012 will have a sweet line-up of scifi films. A lot of adaptations from really nice novels supposed to be coming out. The Forever War being among them.
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Perhaps.. Seth Green?
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I'm surprised this article didn't put in the information that the movie will not be based on the games' stories and will instead be based on a new story.
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Where did you get this idea?
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It would be insane for them to completely rework the plot. WTF would ME be if Shepard wasn't running around trying to stop the Reapers?
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Hollywood doesn't care.
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If I had to guess I'd say something about how Shepard got to be humanity's choice for Spectre, even though that stuff is kind of decided by the player in ME1. Or worse yet they might be aiming to scrap the whole plot of the games and rewrite some alternate story with the same characters, Hollywood seems to like doing that.
On a side note, I still think the Mass Effect universe is really ripe for some movies or series. There's a lot in there that the games haven't explored that would be really cool to see in film/game/tv form. I can't stress enough how awesome it would be to see a movie about the First Contact War between humans and turians.
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If they're not going with a new cast of characters, I hope it'll be mostly characters from the first game. I couldn't stand the ones in 2.
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I'd prefer they keep some of the better ones from ME2 such as Mordin and Legion. Also Miranda seeing as they can just get Yvonne Strahovski and make her wear that tight jumpsuit.
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Yeah, I liked Mordin and Legion. Thane was tolerable. Couldn't stand Jack, Grunt, Samara, and most of all, Zaeed.
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Outside of that one mission with Zaeed I pretty much left his ass in the basement where he belongs. I could see a character like Jack being handled better her back story was interesting at least but I don't see it being easily handled in a movie(TV show maybe).
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She was trying-too-hard-"hardcore-chick" character. Zero subtlety. Annoyed me thoroughly.
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Yeah but I could see the whole being experimented on angle being interesting if they toned her down a bit also she kind of calms down if Shepard heals her with his magic dick
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They should replace her with Michael Fassbender
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His squad disruptor ammo is useful in Geth missions.
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It would be nice if the movie turned out to be awesome and spawned a movie/tv franchise. I like the universe Bioware created it's fairly fleshed out and interesting. I hope they can get a quality director after District 9 I'd be happy with someone like Neill Blomkamp. But considering the track record with movies adapted from games i'm not getting my hopes up.
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Chances are it will be a mediocre director and a mediocre movie. Not Bioware's fault, it's just the way they treat game IP.
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No Seth Green as Joker makes me a sad panda. However, I still think ME is just ripe for movie adaptation. I just hope they don't make Shepard look like the skinhead retard default male Shepard looks like in game.
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Seth Green as Joker was the only casting decision I was concerned with! Fuck!
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i always feel sorry for the screenwriter that has to somehow turn a video game story into a passable movie screenplay
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Come go and see, will not regret it Oh look
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Pretty much how I feel anytime they announce another game-based movie.
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I WANT THE WARCRAFT MOVIE
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I'm not a 40K fan but hey, the more the merrier.
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Stop, you're making me hard.
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They need to do a series for the Horus Heresy. Ultramarines were, and always will be bland, and the movie didn't count.
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Trying to isolate Shepard to one particular actor will pose problems anyway. I just hope whoever plays Wrex imitates the voice and mannerisms to the letter. :)
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Need More Space Hamsters!
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Do they REALLY need to make a movie with real actors? Just use computer animation and voice actors, it's good enough...just look at what they did for Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, etc., and that was years ago. Besides, that way we can have the voice actors from the game come in.
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