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[heretica]

MotoSkunkX wrote...

AwesomeName wrote...

That's a default. There is no canon Shepard, or at least there's no canon Shepard that's more "correct" than anyone else's i.e. your Shepard is only canon for you... but that's it. Hence it's an RPG! You can't have a canon Shepard given the fact that ME is a game where you're forced to make choices.  That's why they never mention Shepard's first name, gender, or background in any of the supplementary material (e.g. books, comics, etc.)

His name is John, and he is buckets of win.  That's like saying Dragon Age doesn't have a canon character when anyone with half a brain can tell you that it would be a male Cousland that bangs Claudia Black on the side.

Also please don't mention the books ever again.  I like to pretend that they don't exist.  The author should be executed not only for his poor writing, but at his pathetic attempts at inserting his personal views on politics into them as well.  

Catt128 wrote...
Least you could do is pick up someone who
knows what he is doing and knows Mass Effect universe. Why didn't you
pick Drew or any of the writers for ME2 ?

Are you serious?  The books were TERRIBLE.  I'd almost rather have Uwe Boll make the Mass Effect movie.

Well I understand that you dislike the books, it's a personal preference. My point is that a script should be written by someone who knows about Mass Effect. I doubt this guy is going to play ME1 & 2, Read the books and comics etc. The script is a very important part of the movie, not only the flashy lights and special effects count.

[nikki191]

it might of made an interesting and compelling tv series but as a movie i see at best a half assed job and at worst an "inspired by" movie like wing commander

[mattmacdougall1]

I'd like to see Joe Flanigan in it. His portrayal of Sheppard in Stargate was nothing short of epic.:happy:

[Schanez]

A post to BioWare.

You have decided to make a movie based on ME story. So I will describe it with ME language. You have started a suicide mission. You can all die but your objective is to keep evrybody alive. You can ruin yourself by adding Shepard to the movie or stick with another hero. The second idea will help you survive. If you decide to make a Shepard-movie even if it will rock all the Soldiers, Vanguards, Adepts, Engineers, Sentinels and Infiltrators will rush on you shooting evrything they have. Because you will ruin theirs' story. You will destroy the best part of the game trying to make a movie. There is no best actor for a Shepard role. Evrybody has his.her's own Shep.
My advise is such, if you want to be loved by players don't decide to add Shepard to your movie. Make a film about First Contact War or about some other story. The galaxy is full of them just waiting to be uncoverd. Don't even mention the Shepard's name in the movie.
If you'll stick to this you will end the mission with the whole crew alive (and gain respect and honour).

[Lotion Soronarr]

Kudos to Bioware for deciding to make a movie.

Double kudos for selling rights to ME1 specificly, thus meaning there WILL be a Sheppard.



Ignoring the self-absorbed whiners is the smartest move ever made.

[Jollyroger]

I look at it like this.. If it's bad. I'll go watch it.. say it sucked.. go home.. play mass effect.

If it's good.. I'll go watch it... say it was good.. go home.. play mass effect.. buy the movie when it comes out.

[Zurcior]

Jollyroger wrote...

I look at it like this.. If it's bad. I'll go watch it.. say it sucked.. go home.. play mass effect.
If it's good.. I'll go watch it... say it was good.. go home.. play mass effect.. buy the movie when it comes out.

^This.

[Chromie]

Zurcior wrote...

Jollyroger wrote...

I look at it like this.. If it's bad. I'll go watch it.. say it sucked.. go home.. play mass effect.
If it's good.. I'll go watch it... say it was good.. go home.. play mass effect.. buy the movie when it comes out.

^This.

Exactly...I mean come on everyone saw Avatar and wont shutup about it even though it sucked...

I do wish it would be made in CGI though unless if there is no Shepard in the move. It would be great if the movie just took place in the Mass Effect Universe just not be connected to the game or atleast not directly connected to Shepard.

Like they could start by showing Humans discovering the Prothean Cache on Mars and then discovering FTL travel and the main battle could be about the First Contact War.

[ATynam]

Well I can't say i'm surprised at a movie being considered, afterall the qualities of the game itself lift it to a cinematic level. Mostly due to the quality of the writing and interaction between characters.

Don't think i'd like to see Shepard in the game but rather see some other behind the scenes action from supporting characters.

The only way a movie will work though is to involve the writers of the game at a fundamental level. I've seen too many examples of gaming properties ruined by outsiders that just don't get what it's about. I still shudder at what happened to "Doom"

I'd also keep my fingers crossed that the live action is minimal can't imagine them getting the races of Mass Effect portrayed in any other way than CGI. Considering the quality of the cutscenes within the game it surprises me that the whole enterprise couldn't be done in-house.

[Lui77]

i love my shepard, but if i have to sit through 2-3 hours of a different shepard, in a mass effect film done right, then i say good luck bioware please do this universe the justice it richly deserves

[Commander Steve]

why is everybody so sure it gonna be an adaption of the first game? no mass effect media outside of the games has had shepard in it. the first book did not even have the WORD shepard in it.

[GothamLord]

Commander Steve wrote...

why is everybody so sure it gonna be an adaption of the first game? no mass effect media outside of the games has had shepard in it. the first book did not even have the WORD shepard in it.

Because its stated in the original press release that the movie rights were sold as an adaption of the original Mass Effect game not the rights to craft a new story using the existing Mass Effect universe as a backdrop. 

Modifié par GothamLord, 17 juin 2010 - 03:26 .

[Bomb In My Pants]

mattmacdougall1 wrote...

I'd like to see Joe Flanigan in it. His portrayal of Sheppard in Stargate was nothing short of epic.:happy:

YES! Thank you, finally someone mentioned Joe Flanigan. mattmacdougal1, you are my hero!

Anyway, yes that would be AWESOME, especially if he played Shepard again. But either way, in my experience, Hollywood has always ruined games, and books when they made them into movies. Just look at Halo. I don't know if they're going to make a serious movie about that or not, but some idiot made some f***** up cartoon pokeymon style about it. (I HATE pokeymon)

Also look at The Hunt for Red October. The book was great, but so much content was left out, that it was like the equivalent of reducing the entire United States to the size of Hawaii! 

And they did the same thing with Percy Jackson and the Olympians!. Not only di they leave out stuff, but they added some of they're own. Worse yet, everything that was from the book, they got wrong!

I'd love to just yell P*** OFF in to the faces of the directors, and producers of those movies.

Alright, calming down. On a more releveant note, does anyone have any idea when it will be finished?

Modifié par Bomb In My Pants, 17 juin 2010 - 04:12 .

[Gs09GTR]

Jollyroger wrote...

I look at it like this.. If it's bad. I'll go watch it.. say it sucked.. go home.. play mass effect.
If it's good.. I'll go watch it... say it was good.. go home.. play mass effect.. buy the movie when it comes out.

wow a person being realistic, not going into every little detail about somthing they have no clue about yet.
 i second this lol

[Lotion Soronarr]

Bomb In My Pants wrote...

Anyway, yes that would be AWESOME, especially if he played Shepard again. But either way, in my experience, Hollywood has always ruined games, and books when they made them into movies. Just look at Halo. I don't know if they're going to make a serious movie about that or not, but some idiot made some f***** up cartoon pokeymon style about it. (I HATE pokeymon)

You're reffering to Halo: Legends?
Not a Halo fan, but seen it a few days ago. It's a collection of several short stories made by differetn studios. So each story had a different visual stlye and feel. I think I nkow which one you refer to. Didn't liek that one either. Still, all in all, Halo: Legends wasn't bad. It was more of an experiment really and lacked focus.

[MotoSkunkX]

Ringo12 wrote...
Exactly...I mean come on everyone saw Avatar and wont shutup about it even though it sucked...

I do wish it would be made in CGI though unless if there is no Shepard in the move. It would be great if the movie just took place in the Mass Effect Universe just not be connected to the game or atleast not directly connected to Shepard.

Like they could start by showing Humans discovering the Prothean Cache on Mars and then discovering FTL travel and the main battle could be about the First Contact War.

Everyone I know that has seen Avatar is of the same opinion.  "Yes the story is god awful and terrible but that's not why I went to see it.  HELL YEAS AWESOME CGI!"

[Alex_SM]

Bomb In My Pants wrote...


Anyway, yes that would be AWESOME, especially if he played Shepard again. But either way, in my experience, Hollywood has always ruined games, and books when they made them into movies. Just look at Halo. I don't know if they're going to make a serious movie about that or not, but some idiot made some f***** up cartoon pokeymon style about it. (I HATE pokeymon)

Also look at The Hunt for Red October. The book was great, but so much content was left out, that it was like the equivalent of reducing the entire United States to the size of Hawaii! 

Two things:

-Hunt for Red October is one of the best movies of the 90'!!!

-Mostly eveything Hollywood has made since it exists are adaptations. 

You know: Die Hard, Rambo, The Godfather, The Princess Bride, Casino, Blade Runner, Scarface, Minority Report, The Shawshank Redemption, The Fight Club, Lord of the Rings, Jaws, Silence of the Lambs, Jurassic Park,  Gone with the Wind, Giant, To Kill A Mockingbird, Bambi, 12 Angry Men, Rosemary's Baby, 2001, Casino Royale, Under Siege, A Christmas Carol, Les Miserables, Lord of the Flies, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, Everything you always wanted to know about sex but were afraid to ask , Chocolat,  Atonement, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Requiem for a Dream, Trainspotting, The Piano, Jumanji, The Jungle Book, The Wizard of oz...

And much more. Somewhere (don't remember) I read that more or less 85% of all worldwide cinema productions since Louis Lumiere) are adaptations. 

[Alex_SM]

The only way a movie will work though is to involve the writers of the game at a fundamental level. I've seen too many examples of gaming properties ruined by outsiders that just don't get what it's about. I still shudder at what happened to "Doom"

I don't think the "Doom" thing was about writters who doesn't know the game. 

It was about making a cheap movie with a cheap director and cheap writters who probably didn't have much more than some days to write the whole draft.

And they really knew what it was about; Doom 3 is well recognized in the movie. That wasn't what I wanted (I'm still into Doom and Doom 2) and it wasn't a good movie, but I don't think the problems where about having "outsiders".

[FataliTensei]

A mass-effect movie? No thanks >_<

[Spornicus]

Name three movies based on videogames that were good. And realize that most, if not all, videogame-based movies don't have the customization of Mass Effect, where you can be a male, female, be born in three different places, have three different past events, multiple romances, and tons of choices. I don't know how this movie can work, hopefully it gets scrapped in place of an original idea, like how the Halo movie got scrapped and Peter Jackson moved instead to District 9.

[Bomb In My Pants]

Alex_SM wrote...

Bomb In My Pants wrote...


Anyway, yes that would be AWESOME, especially if he played Shepard again. But either way, in my experience, Hollywood has always ruined games, and books when they made them into movies. Just look at Halo. I don't know if they're going to make a serious movie about that or not, but some idiot made some f***** up cartoon pokeymon style about it. (I HATE pokeymon)

Also look at The Hunt for Red October. The book was great, but so much content was left out, that it was like the equivalent of reducing the entire United States to the size of Hawaii! 

Two things:

-Hunt for Red October is one of the best movies of the 90'!!!

-Mostly eveything Hollywood has made since it exists are adaptations. 

You know: Die Hard, Rambo, The Godfather, The Princess Bride, Casino, Blade Runner, Scarface, Minority Report, The Shawshank Redemption, The Fight Club, Lord of the Rings, Jaws, Silence of the Lambs, Jurassic Park,  Gone with the Wind, Giant, To Kill A Mockingbird, Bambi, 12 Angry Men, Rosemary's Baby, 2001, Casino Royale, Under Siege, A Christmas Carol, Les Miserables, Lord of the Flies, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, Everything you always wanted to know about sex but were afraid to ask , Chocolat,  Atonement, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Requiem for a Dream, Trainspotting, The Piano, Jumanji, The Jungle Book, The Wizard of oz...

And much more. Somewhere (don't remember) I read that more or less 85% of all worldwide cinema productions since Louis Lumiere) are adaptations. 

Okay, have you even READ The Hunt for Red October? If not, then you need to. Otherwise, go give yourself a concussion for writing about something which you have no idea about.

Also, all the movies you listed, other than being a complete waste of time, meant nothing!  I'm not complaining about the amount of movies that are based off of books, I'm complaining about them doing it badly. Besides, a lot of movies based off of books are really, really, good! And the Hunt for Red October (movie) was good too, but not so much if you've read the book. Believe me, I saw the movie plenty of times before I read the book, but even when I hadn't read the book, I felt like something was missing. It was as if 3 quarters of the puzzle had fallen off the table!

Modifié par Bomb In My Pants, 18 juin 2010 - 07:33 .

[Alex_SM]

Bomb In My Pants wrote...


O
kay, have you even READ The Hunt for Red October? If not, then you need to. Otherwise, go give yourself a concussion for writing about something which you have no idea about.

Also, all the movies you listed, other than being a complete waste of time, meant nothing!  I'm not complaining about the amount of movies that are based off of books, I'm complaining about them doing it badly. Besides, a lot of movies based off of books are really, really, good! And the Hunt for Red October (movie) was good too, but not so much if you've read the book. Believe me, I saw the movie plenty of times before I read the book, but even when I hadn't read the book, I felt like something was missing. It was as if 3 quarters of the puzzle had fallen off the table!

I've read the book, and really didn't enjoyed very much. But I really don't enjoy Tom Clancy's books very much. 

In the other hand I found the movie to be one of the best of all the 90's.


And about the list; you said: "But either way, in my experience, Hollywood has always ruined games, and books when they made them into movies." 

And it's not true, Hollywod not always ruins books when they mede them into movies. Most good movies in Hollywood have been book adaptations. 

Modifié par Alex_SM, 18 juin 2010 - 03:29 .

[Marah_Fayne]

To all those who say that making a movie will ruin the game because it won't be "my Shepard" - I offer this:



Marah Shepard, female, Earth-born, became a war hero during the Skylian Blitz. Loved Liara. Even though it got to the point that she hung up on them just for fun, when the time came, she decided to save the council at any cost. Almost always took Garrus and Liara on missions. Left Ash to die on Virmire because she was a xeno-phobic pain in the butt...and put a bullet in Wrex's face when he made it clear that he would not follow orders. After her death, flirted with Garrus, but backed off at the last minute because she still loved Liara. Hates Cerberus, but flirts with Kelly. Got drunk with Chakwas, played poker with the engine room crew (and cheated). Prefers all black armour, but will wear blood red when the mood hits her. Earned the loyalty of her crew (Zaheed by threatening to put a bullet in his head), and everyone survived the mission where all were expected to die. In the end she destroyed the Collector ship, and told the Illusive Man that he was to start following her orders form now on - or get out of the way.





There - totally ruined the game for you, right? Of course not. There are thousands upon thousands of players worldwide who brought to life a character comepletely different than yours, and they had no impact on your game. Neither will the movie.