I'm fine with movies about video games, provided they're done well and correctly, but Mass Effect is not such a game. I hope it dies in development hell where it belongs.
I'd be cool with an Assassin's Creed movie (for which Michael Fassbender is making). Or Halo. Something like that.
I'm fine with movies about video games, provided they're done well and correctly, but Mass Effect is not such a game. I hope it dies in development hell where it belongs.
I'd be cool with an Assassin's Creed movie (for which Michael Fassbender is making). Or Halo. Something like that.
I have to agree. I'd rather see a Remember Me movie than one about Mass Effect.
Mass effect could work as a movie, but only if they go the route of retooling the whole thing into a movie format, basically having free reign to change whatever they need. In which case it'd probably leave a lot of people feeling betrayed.
Not that it'll matter much, since this movie appears dead as dead can be when it comes to the production stage. Even if it does end up finally coming out of this long production cycle, it'll probably end up dying during filming from all the budget costs and time it'd take, which I find doesn't get better as you go on and only gets worse from there.
So either it won't come out, or by the time it does come out, everyone who might have cared enough to see this, even to just see how bad it is, would have lost interest, leaving it to rot into obscurity worse then the total recall remake.
Great. Of course they will choose cannon things like Liara romance. Yuck.
Great. Of course they will choose cannon things like Liara romance. Yuck.
Nothing's gonna get 'canoned' since this movie ain't happening lol. Developement limbo
Again, I think this could be cool IF they do it right. Ultimately, that is the question, can they?
I'm honestly kind of indifferent to this. For me, my "canon" version of Mass Effect is the one I played with my favorite of all my different Shepards. If they make a movie out of it, then that will be somebody else's take on the story and one I'd be interested to see out of curiosity, but I don't think that choices diverging from my canon Shepard's choices, or changes or omissions of characters, is somehow going to "ruin" Mass Effect for me.
There are issues and themes that ME touches upon that are important in my thinking, and my canon Shepard's choices tend to reflect my opinion on those themes, so I imagine I might be disappointed if a movie were to take the opposite position. But that would be true of any movie, regardless of whether I played a video game of it ahead of time.
I'm honestly kind of indifferent to this. For me, my "canon" version of Mass Effect is the one I played with my favorite of all my different Shepards. If they make a movie out of it, then that will be somebody else's take on the story and one I'd be interested to see out of curiosity, but I don't think that choices diverging from my canon Shepard's choices, or changes or omissions of characters, is somehow going to "ruin" Mass Effect for me.
There are issues and themes that ME touches upon that are important in my thinking, and my canon Shepard's choices tend to reflect my opinion on those themes, so I imagine I might be disappointed if a movie were to take the opposite position. But that would be true of any movie, regardless of whether I played a video game of it ahead of time.
Im also indifferent to it, thats the thing with Mass Effect, the lore is big enough to not follow Shepard for a movie, because player canon > movie canon but it seem writers cant be originals these days.
I have relatively low expectations but will go see this when it comes out. What would be amusing is if they did the whole movie in an experimental way, such as in the first person perspective where the viewer is in the perspective of the protagonist. It will be challenging to come up with a plot that moves beyond viewer expectations and it would be laudable if they have a movie with multiple randomised endings.
I don't expect this to be out before 2020, the way they're going.
Let see...
Warcraft movie first sings was in 9 May 2006 and for almost ten years, movie was in produce?
Blizz plz.
Mass Effect movies is coming?
Biower plz...
I don't believe that two movies will be released and honestly... I do not care about it. Same thing was happend to Halo The Movie.
I bet the Mass Effect movie will have the
I know we probably won't see Shepard there & etc.. but would be neat if we could see some past characters or areas from the trilogy. We'd jeez our pants 
It is confirmed that it will be the plot from the first game, and that is a good decision since most videogame adaptations were bad because they were not loyal to their source material.
Shall we even begin to speculate on the cast?
It is confirmed that it will be the plot from the first game, and that is a good decision since most videogame adaptations were bad because they were not loyal to their source material.
Being loyal to the source material is the least of the problems of some adaptations. It not following the lore or the plot or even the characterizations exactly is one thing, but even on their own, most of those movies were terrible.
Following the source material exactly doesn't really determine whether or not a movie is good. As an example (though not a video game), How to Train Your Dragon is a film that takes quite a few liberties from the original children's book, but even its creator approved of the changes made, and it turned out to be a great animated film regardless.
As for Mass Effect, considering some of the rather questionable internal logic of the game, it would actually be a good thing to not follow the source material exactly. If a movie is going to be made, it would probably be for the best if a lot of changes are made to clean up the plot and make it tighter than what we got.
Being loyal to the source material is the least of the problems of some adaptations. It not following the lore or the plot or even the characterizations exactly is one thing, but even on their own, most of those movies were terrible.
Following the source material exactly doesn't really determine whether or not a movie is good. As an example (though not a video game), How to Train Your Dragon is a film that takes quite a few liberties from the original children's book, but even its creator approved of the changes made, and it turned out to be a great animated film regardless.
As for Mass Effect, considering some of the rather questionable internal logic of the game, it would actually be a good thing to not follow the source material exactly. If a movie is going to be made, it would probably be for the best if a lot of changes are made to clean up the plot and make it tighter than what we got.
Agreed, it will be hard to condense the entire plot of the first game into a 2 hour movie and I don't see the movie doing the game any justice.
But dont get your hopes up, most video game movies are bad 
Being loyal to the source material is the least of the problems of some adaptations. It not following the lore or the plot or even the characterizations exactly is one thing, but even on their own, most of those movies were terrible.
Following the source material exactly doesn't really determine whether or not a movie is good.
Most of those movies were made by Uwe Boll, the problem of those movies was not that they were videogame adaptations, the reason they sucked does not apply to the ME-movie.
Ok, in cases like Tomb Raider there was not enough in the games to be a good movie, so adding/altering stuff not in the games is a necessity, but that is not the case with Mass Effect.
Nevertheless you need to include the defining aspects of the game (=be loyal), otherwise you will most likely end up with another Super Mario Bros. Movie.
To put it in a catchphrase: There is no Mass Effect without Shepard, the people around him/her and the Reapers.
The "first contact war" (and other "great" ideas from players on this forum) whould result in 90 minutes of humans and turians trying to kill each other, with other species only present at the end, that is something for expanded universe (like the comics) and fanfiction.
Being loyal to the source does not mean they have to do everything like it is in the game, they could do plenty of stuff that was not even an option in the game without being illoyal.
LIs not available in the games (Femshep+Joker and stuff like that), new ways to solve a problem and of course removing/changing the catalyst (when there ever is a ME3 movie) are possible.
The problem with video game to film adaptations is that they are usually made on the cheap with hack writers, and a director, cast and crew from Hollywood's C and D list. Special effects and action sequences also tend to be shoddy. They are movies that aren't really taken seriously by Hollywood, they are cheap attempts to cash out on a pre-existing fanbase without taking too much risk by investing a large amount of money in the project.
Is there any reason to suspect that Mass Effect wouldn't be more of the same?
And let's face it, even if none of the above were issues, a faithful adaptation of the Shepard trilogy would be completely unwatchable. None of the endings would work in a film and would be panned by critics and audiences a like. Hell, they didn't even work in the game. And the endings wouldn't be the only problem with a film adaptation. Even if the Mass Effect project received a large budget, solid writers, and a quality cast and crew, it would need to go through a significant rewrite and lots of content (and characters) would need to end up on the cutting room floor. A good film would be very different from the game it was based on.
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