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[Massadonious1]

I've always been in the minority in this one, but I've always thought this could work, and with Shepard's story, no less.



I know people are ultimately worried about whoever they get not being "their" Shep for whatever reason, but as long as the writing, directing, and acting is solid, then why not? It's one thing if they portray a character as something they're not, but as long as they depict him (or her) within the confines of how they can be portrayed within the universe, then that's fine by me.



I just don't see it working out any other way. To make it appeal to the moviegoing public, it has to be relevant and relatable. Shepard's story is what most casual Mass Effect fans know, and what can be easily translated to everyone else. They can do stories like Revelations and the First Contact War once they establish the universe. Make people care and want to know more about Anderson and how the Humans "met" the Turians. Regardless of what you think of the X-Men movie franchise, this approach worked out quite well for them.

[JackShepard]

FIRST. CONTACT. WAR.



It's the perfect venue to introduce the finer points of the ME universe. Why? Humanity is at a point where it's still learning about the universe they're in. Element Zero is relatively new. Mass relays are new. Protheans are kinda new. This way the audience gets to learn about the ME universe at the same time as the characters onscreen do. Contrast this setting to Shepard's time, when everything about how the universe works will have to be explained to the audience.



And it will avoid situations like this:

"Really Shepard? You don't know how biotics work? Aren't you a biotic? Don't you work with biotics all the goddamn time? Still no clue? Okay. Let me explain it to you very carefully..."



Personally, I've always wanted to learn more about the first contact war. I want to see humans kicking alien ass (even if i like turians). It pleases everybody. The audience gets introduced to this awesome franchise while us long time fans get to learn about another era of the universe we know and love. And if we happen to come across David Anderson, well then that's just a bonus.

[Darth Drago]

Onyx Jaguar wrote...

I hope it has very little to do with the plot and characters of the games.

-Agreed. Just like how the first Resident Evil film had nothing to do with the games either and it worked just fine. The sequels however are another issue.

I’m not holding my breath on or if this film will be any good until I actually hear a lot more about it like about the cast and story.

If it does follows the first game the they had better get the actors who were in that game to reprise their voice rolls at the least. Why waste such good talent that already know the character they play? I really hope they don’t go al out on getting big named actors to play the main rolls either.

-Admiral Hackett: Lance Hendriksen
-Captain Anderson: David Keith (a no brainer you would think)
-Joker: Seth Green
-Garrus: Brandon Keener (why not use him?)
-Kaiden Alenko: Raphael Sbarge looks good in his voice roll.
-Lira: Jillian Murphy (she was used to model her I understand)
-Matriarch Benezia: Marina Sirtis
-Doctor Chakwas: Carolyn Seymour
-Ambassador Udina: Bill Ratner
-Navigator/XO Pressley: Dwight Shultz
-Tali: Liz Stroka (voice)
-Wrex: Steven Barr (voice)
-Salarian Councilor: Armin Shimerman (voice)
-Asari Councilor: Jan Alexandra Smith (voice)
-Turian Councilor: Alastair Duncan (voice)

On another note….
I wonder if they make a Mass Effect 2 movie if they will have Shepard running around picking up ammo during/after a battle…

[Axeface]

JackShepard wrote...
And if we happen to come across David Anderson, well then that's just a bonus.

I think thats a great Idea, however I think that it being set just AFTER the first contact war could be much better. Meeting the races and trying to integrate after a devestating war.
Plenty of scope for flashbacks to a hard time.

And as for Anderson... Shameless plug but I think this guy would really work in ME ;p

[Mev186]

A Mass Effect Movie, great! It'll join the ranks of other great video game movies such as Super Mario Brothers! Mortal Kombat! Mortal Kombat: Annihilation! Tomb Raider! Street Fighter! Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li! Hitman! and Doom..



...



This is going to suck isn't it ?

[JJ Long]

First Contact War movie please

[Xeranx]

xxsmigglywiggleroomyouospreyxx wrote...

Collider wrote...

I HATE the idea of a Mass Effect movie. If they have to do it, either



a) Make it not about Shepard. I wouldn't mind seeing Anderson's and Saren's story.

Make Shepard not have a romance. Not only because people are going to get annoyed that Ashley, Lirara, Miranda, Tali, or Jack are not Shepard's romance interest, but because I dislike needless romances in Hollywood movies in general. Can't we have an action hero without a romance interest?

Why do you hate the idea of a Mass Effect movie? Having a movie only validates video games as a serious credible art form. Video games are evolving and becoming the premiere source of electronic entertainment, so it's inevitable that other art forms are going to want to borrow the success. Besides, a movie will probably generate millions of dollars for Bioware, and they should be rewarded for the hard work they put in Mass Effect. 

That's like having a woman adopt the mannerisms of a man to validate her as a woman in my opinion.  More often than not (mostly often) she comes off like a female dog (think the "B"-word is censored).

Why does a video game need a movie to validate it as an art form?  Why can't it stand on its own and show why it is an artform worthy of being included in the ranks of movies, books, and drawings/paintings?  People who choose to invalidate videogames as an artform have tremendous bias towards it.  It's this thinking that forced ME2 to not be as progressive as ME.  It's this thinking that had the creators make the sequal to ME more PG-13 than the soft M as it was first introduced.

[Vicious]

[AilCross1912]

I personally would like them to make a movie version of Revelation, Ascension, and Retribution besides making one about the first game but regardless I'm estatic!!

[JackShepard]

Axeface wrote...

JackShepard wrote...
And if we happen to come across David Anderson, well then that's just a bonus.

I think thats a great Idea, however I think that it being set just AFTER the first contact war could be much better. Meeting the races and trying to integrate after a devestating war.
Plenty of scope for flashbacks to a hard time.

And as for Anderson... Shameless plug but I think this guy would really work in ME ;p

How 'bout we compromise? Trilogy, anyone?

1st Film: First Contact War. Turians are bad guys, Anderson kicks ass, movie ends with the Council putting an end to the war. Humans are like "Holy sh*t, there's an entire galactic community out there!

2nd Film: Humans integrate into galactic community. We learn about the Citadel, set up an embassy. Anderson is sent to kick ass of some anti-human terrorist aliens. We see Saren skulking around, being all anti-human (maybe even aiding the anti-human plot?)

3rd Film: *ding ding ding* Anderson vs. Saren. Or Anderson vs. a whole bunch of other Spectres. Either a straight adaptation of ME: Revelations or a modified version. It ends with Hackett paying Anderson a visit:

Hackett: I hear you've been getting yourself into all sorts of trouble again, Anderson.
Anderson: No more than usual, sir. To what do I owe the pleasure, sir?
Hackett: I've got an N7 here that could help you out the next time you get yourself into trouble. Reminds me of you in the old days.
Anderson: I'm not that old, but I'll take all the help I can get, sir.
Hackett: I thought so. Anderson, this is Shepard...
(turns to door)
----- CUT TO BLACK - CREDITS -----

How is this not awesome? 

[MarshalMeLee]

I hope it will not be bad. I really, really, really, hope it will not be bad. All I can really say.

If it's good, then I will be happy to see ME get the recognition it deserves rather than the considerably overhyped Halo. If it's bad, I'm going to punch small animals. Yes, I'm kidding. Sort of.

I'm not surprised though. Look at the movies of late...rehashing old tired ideas with sequels. A favourably reviewed video game storyline would give them a fanbase to draw upon as potential viewers and get some new ideas out there.

Problems in translation between video game and movie will crop up though. Giving such a deep universe its due, as well as the various player-controlled decisions of the video game (as obvious as male vs. female Shepard for starters) will be difficult.

Meh. Something new to pay attention to I guess, be it fair or foul.

[JJ Long]

When adapting a video game to a a movie, the most important part is the story and how it plays out within the movie.



You have to have the right feel of the story in the movie in order to create the same feeling that the game creates and made it so successful.



I think the First Contact War period is perfect, people aren't just thrown into the Mass Effect universe like the video game. In a video game you have multiple sources of information like the codex to give you a backstory, in a movie that can be portrayed but it might appear long winded.



The First Contact War and integration of Humans into the galactic community is a perfect starting point.



From there you can move forward with possible sequels, maybe getting into Shepard's story.



This is of course with the idea that there will be future movies, you can jump right into Shepard's story and do a direct adaptation of the first Mass Effect game, but it will needs some slight exposition to bring people up to date. But the again, we've been constantly thrusted into new film worlds throughout the years without any major exposition. Just look at the original Star Wars.



I'm very interested in seeing where they take this.

[Xeranx]

JackShepard wrote...

Axeface wrote...

JackShepard wrote...
And if we happen to come across David Anderson, well then that's just a bonus.

I think thats a great Idea, however I think that it being set just AFTER the first contact war could be much better. Meeting the races and trying to integrate after a devestating war.
Plenty of scope for flashbacks to a hard time.

And as for Anderson... Shameless plug but I think this guy would really work in ME ;p

How 'bout we compromise? Trilogy, anyone?

1st Film: First Contact War. Turians are bad guys, Anderson kicks ass, movie ends with the Council putting an end to the war. Humans are like "Holy sh*t, there's an entire galactic community out there!

2nd Film: Humans integrate into galactic community. We learn about the Citadel, set up an embassy. Anderson is sent to kick ass of some anti-human terrorist aliens. We see Saren skulking around, being all anti-human (maybe even aiding the anti-human plot?)

3rd Film: *ding ding ding* Anderson vs. Saren. Or Anderson vs. a whole bunch of other Spectres. Either a straight adaptation of ME: Revelations or a modified version. It ends with Hackett paying Anderson a visit:

Hackett: I hear you've been getting yourself into all sorts of trouble again, Anderson.
Anderson: No more than usual, sir. To what do I owe the pleasure, sir?
Hackett: I've got an N7 here that could help you out the next time you get yourself into trouble. Reminds me of you in the old days.
Anderson: I'm not that old, but I'll take all the help I can get, sir.
Hackett: I thought so. Anderson, this is Shepard...
(turns to door)
----- CUT TO BLACK - CREDITS -----

How is this not awesome? 

Love it. 

[AntiChri5]

I made a poll about this:

http://social.biowar...996/polls/6070/

Modifié par AntiChri5, 25 mai 2010 - 05:42 .

[Axeface]

JackShepard wrote...

Axeface wrote...

JackShepard wrote...
And if we happen to come across David Anderson, well then that's just a bonus.

I think thats a great Idea, however I think that it being set just AFTER the first contact war could be much better. Meeting the races and trying to integrate after a devestating war.
Plenty of scope for flashbacks to a hard time.

And as for Anderson... Shameless plug but I think this guy would really work in ME ;p

*Imagesnipped

How 'bout we compromise? Trilogy, anyone?

1st Film: First Contact War. Turians are bad guys, Anderson kicks ass, movie ends with the Council putting an end to the war. Humans are like "Holy sh*t, there's an entire galactic community out there!

2nd Film: Humans integrate into galactic community. We learn about the Citadel, set up an embassy. Anderson is sent to kick ass of some anti-human terrorist aliens. We see Saren skulking around, being all anti-human (maybe even aiding the anti-human plot?)

3rd Film: *ding ding ding* Anderson vs. Saren. Or Anderson vs. a whole bunch of other Spectres. Either a straight adaptation of ME: Revelations or a modified version. It ends with Hackett paying Anderson a visit:

Hackett: I hear you've been getting yourself into all sorts of trouble again, Anderson.
Anderson: No more than usual, sir. To what do I owe the pleasure, sir?
Hackett: I've got an N7 here that could help you out the next time you get yourself into trouble. Reminds me of you in the old days.
Anderson: I'm not that old, but I'll take all the help I can get, sir.
Hackett: I thought so. Anderson, this is Shepard...
(turns to door)
----- CUT TO BLACK - CREDITS -----

How is this not awesome? 

Great stuff but my only worry is that the whole 'first contact war' thing is so overused. Lets take Serenity for example, at the start you see a short rundown of a devestating war between the alliance and the independence. Works great for setting a plot, and you dont need a whole film to show a war.
So I agree with you, but perhaps move your 2nd suggestion to number 1, and have the third film following Shepard? Change of main character hasnt been done much and could work really well., and you could also run with anderson getting on, losing his military weight and being pushed to one side...

a sad and touching story if done properly....

Your final line did make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up, thats would be EPIC, even more so if he was just sillouetted in the doorway and you dont see him........................ It would cement Shepard as a human faceless ICON, Rawr.

Thinking about it, that would be such a powerful ending for the fans. But my worries about the first contact war as the firtst film still bother me.

EDIT: As Hackett drops the name Shepard, the 'Spectre induction music' needs to play.

Modifié par Axeface, 25 mai 2010 - 05:58 .

[yuncas]

Xeranx wrote...

xxsmigglywiggleroomyouospreyxx wrote...

Collider wrote...

I HATE the idea of a Mass Effect movie. If they have to do it, either



a) Make it not about Shepard. I wouldn't mind seeing Anderson's and Saren's story.

Make Shepard not have a romance. Not only because people are going to get annoyed that Ashley, Lirara, Miranda, Tali, or Jack are not Shepard's romance interest, but because I dislike needless romances in Hollywood movies in general. Can't we have an action hero without a romance interest?

Why do you hate the idea of a Mass Effect movie? Having a movie only validates video games as a serious credible art form. Video games are evolving and becoming the premiere source of electronic entertainment, so it's inevitable that other art forms are going to want to borrow the success. Besides, a movie will probably generate millions of dollars for Bioware, and they should be rewarded for the hard work they put in Mass Effect. 

That's like having a woman adopt the mannerisms of a man to validate her as a woman in my opinion.  More often than not (mostly often) she comes off like a female dog (think the "B"-word is censored).

Why does a video game need a movie to validate it as an art form?  Why can't it stand on its own and show why it is an artform worthy of being included in the ranks of movies, books, and drawings/paintings?  People who choose to invalidate videogames as an artform have tremendous bias towards it.  It's this thinking that forced ME2 to not be as progressive as ME.  It's this thinking that had the creators make the sequal to ME more PG-13 than the soft M as it was first introduced.

Snap Werd  oh s.hit and Booyah made into a word of one syllable (if that's possible) is what i would use to describe the above.

[Ricinator]

PLEASE DONT SCREW IT UP BIOWARE!!!

[JackShepard]

Axeface wrote...

Great stuff but my only worry is that the whole 'first contact war' thing is so overused. Lets take Serenity for example, at the start you see a short rundown of a devestating war between the alliance and the independence. Works great for setting a plot, and you dont need a whole film to show a war.
So I agree with you, but perhaps move your 2nd suggestion to number 1, and have the third film following Shepard? Change of main character hasnt been done much and could work really well., and you could also run with anderson getting on, losing his military weight and being pushed to one side...

a sad and touching story if done properly....

Granted, an entire film about the First Contact War would be a bit tiresome. I'd like the first film to touch on the human discoveries on Mars, our discovery of the Charon relay, and then maybe the last third of the film could be about the war. For one thing, it would give them an excuse to explain what "element zero" is all about, along with all sorts of technologies that we picked up from the protheans. (Mass accelerators, medi-gel) Having to explain all this when humans are already on the Citadel would be pretty tedious, and might end up detracting from the story. 

I wouldn't want to see Sheps in the film because there's so many ways to play him/her that it would ****** off a lot of ME players. As much as I'd love to see an Anderson/Sheps mission, I think that should be done in the games (a DLC?), where OUR Shepards can kick ass alongside him. That would also ramp up the emotional impact of Anderson passing the torch to our Sheps. Wouldn't you want to be able to control how Sheps would respond for that scenario? (Paragon: "I'm honored, sir". Renegade: "Suck it up, old man! Told ya I was better!") Besides, knowing Hollywood, a Sheps-Anderson teamup will be treated like Lethal Weapon in Space

LETHAL WEAPON! 

IN SPACE!

SOMEBODY PHOTOSHOP THAT ALREADY!

Anderson: I'm getting too old for this sh*t

[cachx]

There used to be a great videogame saga set in space that got a movie adaptation

[Axeface]

JackShepard wrote...

Axeface wrote...

Great stuff but my only worry is that the whole 'first contact war' thing is so overused. Lets take Serenity for example, at the start you see a short rundown of a devestating war between the alliance and the independence. Works great for setting a plot, and you dont need a whole film to show a war.
So I agree with you, but perhaps move your 2nd suggestion to number 1, and have the third film following Shepard? Change of main character hasnt been done much and could work really well., and you could also run with anderson getting on, losing his military weight and being pushed to one side...

a sad and touching story if done properly....

Granted, an entire film about the First Contact War would be a bit tiresome. I'd like the first film to touch on the human discoveries on Mars, our discovery of the Charon relay, and then maybe the last third of the film could be about the war. For one thing, it would give them an excuse to explain what "element zero" is all about, along with all sorts of technologies that we picked up from the protheans. (Mass accelerators, medi-gel) Having to explain all this when humans are already on the Citadel would be pretty tedious, and might end up detracting from the story. 

I wouldn't want to see Sheps in the film because there's so many ways to play him/her that it would ****** off a lot of ME players. As much as I'd love to see an Anderson/Sheps mission, I think that should be done in the games (a DLC?), where OUR Shepards can kick ass alongside him. That would also ramp up the emotional impact of Anderson passing the torch to our Sheps. Wouldn't you want to be able to control how Sheps would respond for that scenario? (Paragon: "I'm honored, sir". Renegade: "Suck it up, old man! Told ya I was better!") Besides, knowing Hollywood, a Sheps-Anderson teamup will be treated like Lethal Weapon in Space

LETHAL WEAPON! 

IN SPACE!

SOMEBODY PHOTOSHOP THAT ALREADY!

Anderson: I'm getting too old for this sh*t

We are in agreement. Love the suggestions.

And, Wing Commander is indeed an awesome film! Exception to the rule.

[Massadonious1]

Matthew Lillard and Freddie Prinze Jr. aren't exactly bankable stars anymore, so we don't have to worry about casting them.

[Fiery Phoenix]

I was never happy about the idea of a ME movie. As it's been, at least make it like the novels, not involving Shepard in any way. Otherwise it'll ruin a lot for us. Also remember, movies based on games (and vice versa) tend to suck, no matter what.



In any case, I just hope it doesn't involve Shepard.I will gladly buy and watch it as long as it's in the same realm as the books.

[Nuclear]

Oh god no. NO. This will not turn out good.

[Nayt Navare]

Personally, I'm fine with a ME movie. I personally hope for Ashely to be romantic interest in 1, dies on virmire, then Miranda (played by Yvonne Strahovsky) is LI in ME2.



But that's just me

[Fiery Phoenix]

-ßeta- wrote...

Oh god no. NO. This will not turn out good.

I feel you. But it's fine as long as they stay the hell away from Shepard and his/her story.