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[Aedan_Cousland]

PS: I think Sheploo looks pretty old for a 29 years old guy! I hope I won't look as old as Shepard does when I hit 29, lol!

Shepard definitely looks to be in his mid thirities. I'd guess that originally the character was supposed to be middle-aged, but then someone dropped the ball on the official timeline, thus making him younger than he looks.

[charliekrad]

i think the movie has to have lots of easter eggs and references like any cool game, also they need to make the film for the gamers first and film viewers second

[TheCrakFox]

PWENER wrote...

TheCrakFox wrote...

It should be based on humanitys first steps onto the galactic stage, with Grissom as the protagonist.

A film starting with the discovery of prothean ruins on mars (showing the religious, political, and public reaction to the discovery) and culminating in the first contact war would be the perfect way to introduce newcomers to the franchise IMO.

The way I see it, a film like this could take Mass Effect as a franchise to the next level. Wheras a quick cash in based on the story of the games would quickly be forgotten.

This is exactly what it should be of. Not about some canon Shepard and Saren 'n' stuff. It would totally kill the mood, story and fan love.

BW should know better.

It also avoids the issue of having too many unknown alien species involved, confusing the ME newbies. (Something George Lucas doesn't seem to grasp).

[PWENER]

I agree. The fans have been with them sinc the beginning. Thinking of people who don't even know the name Mass Effect is weak.

[Omega-202]

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kylecouch wrote...

Shepard is age 30 during ME2...28 in ME1 and yes he is a Lt Commander...just lettin you know lol.

Correction, Shepard is 29 years old in ME1 and therefor 31 years old in ME2 (but physicially and mentally he's actually still 29 or 30 years old because he obviously didn't grow those 2 years he was being rebuild).

Actually not completely true.  

Shepard was born on April 11, 2154.  The beginning of ME 1 taking place early in the year 2183 with there still being plenty of time later in that year for the conclusion of that story, the events of ME: Incursion, the months long clean up war with the Geth, the opening of ME 2 (Shepard's "death"), the entirety of the events of ME: Redemption (Liara's story), the entirety of the ME: Ascension novel and all of the ME: Galaxy game.  

To make all of that jive together, I think that it was declared that the events of ME1 started in first couple of months of 2183 making Shepard only 28 at the start of the game with his birthday likely falling sometime before his "death".  Shepard was probably lucky enough to spend his birthday hunting Geth remnants.  

2183 was a VERY busy year.  

I don't know about your calculator, but mine says: 2183 - 2154 = 29.

Even if ME1 started early in 2183 and took place over a timespan of 1 year or so, Shepard still becomes 29 during that time (since April is the 4th month of the year and I don't think the entire think between the beginning of ME1 and the beginning of ME2 took place in merely 4 months).

PS: I think Sheploo looks pretty old for a 29 years old guy! I hope I won't look as old as Shepard does when I hit 29, lol!

You obviously didn't understand what I'd wrote.  

He was most likely 28 at the start of ME 1 and 29 by the start of ME2.  

Please read before you start to insult someone who corrects you.  

[PWENER]

Check Shepard's birthday. You could be wrong because you do not know at what time (month) ME1 starts and ends.

[Omega-202]

PWENER wrote...

Check Shepard's birthday. You could be wrong because you do not know at what time (month) ME1 starts and ends.

April 11th.  

There is a clean up war, 2 novels, 2 comic books and a spin off game that all occurs after ME 1 and within the same year.  
By that logic, we can assume that ME1 probably started before April.  

To say that all of those events occur in one year and start AFTER April of that year seems unlikely.

[PWENER]

Omega-202 wrote...

PWENER wrote...

Check Shepard's birthday. You could be wrong because you do not know at what time (month) ME1 starts and ends.

April 11th.  

There is a clean up war, 2 novels, 2 comic books and a spin off game that all occurs after ME 1 and within the same year.  
By that logic, we can assume that ME1 probably started before April.  

To say that all of those events occur in one year and start AFTER April of that year seems unlikely.

ASSUMING doesn't cut it. It will remain as a mistery.

Fun fact: I was born on april 14. 3 days earlier and I'd be the luckiest guy ever. Dammit, why couldn't my mother given birth to me sooner!?.

[MassEffect762]

I want the movie to be canned and all the funds to go into ME3.

[Omega-202]

MassEffect762 wrote...

I want the movie to be canned and all the funds to go into ME3.

Legendary Pictures is not going to fund a video game.  That's where the lion's share of the money would come from for the film, not from EA/BioWare.  

The two projects are unrelated, financially.  

[MassEffect762]

Omega-202 wrote...

MassEffect762 wrote...

I want the movie to be canned and all the funds to go into ME3.

Legendary Pictures is not going to fund a video game.  That's where the lion's share of the money would come from for the film, not from EA/BioWare.  

The two projects are unrelated, financially.  

:pinched:FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

Then all the extra profit (couldn't help myself) goes into making another ME game.

Modifié par MassEffect762, 28 septembre 2010 - 12:11 .

[prizm123]

i watched this new TV show the other night called Chase, and this woman could be a dead ringer for a femshep, i like her even though i had never heard of her before
www.imdb.com/name/nm1534207/

Modifié par prizm123, 28 septembre 2010 - 12:32 .

[PWENER]

prizm123 wrote...

i watched this new TV show the other night called Chase, and this woman could be a dead ringer for a femshep, i like her even though i had never heard of her before
www.imdb.com/name/nm1534207/

She's ugly.

Nuff said.

[Mariah5]

http://www.cracked.c...-scott-pilgrim/



If you replace Scott Pilgrim with Mass Effect, this explains why they will do the movie however they want. Our demands, which are mostly good ideas, will probably be ignored.

[jimmyjoefro]

I wouldn't mind if they made it like the theatrical trailer for ME2. So many cool aliens, so much CGI potential.

[Kristofer1]

granted it was a book but eragon was a great book, and a terrible movie, they tried fitting the book into the movie and left out everything good and the movie flopped. this will happen with a Mass Effect movie centered around commander shepard. For them to do this right, game 1, needs two maybe three parts at three hours a piece. this game could be more epic than star wars if they make the movies correctly. which I doubt will happen. I love star wars and would be surprised if they out did star wars.
granted george lucas cant direct, so the new movies need not apply to this logic.
I'm interested in the fact they are making a movie, I always thought it was forum speculation, I have no seen anything about it online, nor have I searched. I'm not worried about the choices should they follow commander shepard. it would only reveal what bioware wanted our choices to be, but they still gave us our choices in our games. the movie is for the masses but lets hope they dont forget about the people who bought the game.



EDIT: Maybe HBO should make it. they make great miniseries, but then again supposedly they are turning the massive novels by george rr martin into a miniseries so they wont have time. to bad.

Modifié par Kristofer1, 28 septembre 2010 - 01:28 .

[jimmyjoefro]

As for Shepard's real age and his perceived age, chalk it up to war related stress causing him to look older and leave it at that.

[PWENER]

jimmyjoefro wrote...

As for Shepard's real age and his perceived age, chalk it up to war related stress causing him to look older and leave it at that.

Mine looks like his still in his early 20s. Yet looks more badass then Sheploo when mad. IRONY....

Modifié par PWENER, 28 septembre 2010 - 01:38 .

[primero holodon]

That they creat a compleatly new original story that has no relation to shepard or his mission and teammembers. the mass effect universe is way to rich and developed to simply make a movie that follows the game.

[PWENER]

BINGO

[Omega-202]

primero holodon wrote...

That they creat a compleatly new original story that has no relation to shepard or his mission and teammembers. the mass effect universe is way to rich and developed to simply make a movie that follows the game.

If that was their goal, why would Legendary Pictures and Avi Arad bother paying the MILLIONS of dollars they did in order to purchase the rights to use the Mass Effect brand?

If they weren't going to use the content from the games, and were instead going to make a movie about the fighting off of an alien invasion from a human colony (First Contact War) or the adventures of a special agent/space marine (Anderson's stories), they could do that AND save money by not setting it in the ME universe.

Someone earlier said that its not the IP that carries a videogame movie, its the quality.  If that's the case, and the IP is irrelevant to the success of the film, WHY THE HELL would they bother taking on 3 more executive producers and paying another media company for the rights to the IP?

They could just as easily make their own universe and tell the exact same story and make just as much money.  

If they paid for Mass Effect, then they'd be absolute morons not to use the content of the games themselves.  

[jimmyjoefro]

They buy the Mass Effect name, which has notoriety amongst gamers and an established fan base. They also bought the ability to use anything associated with Mass Effect; aliens, organization e.g. Cerberus, names, dates, places, etc.. If don't don't buy the rights, they can't say something like "Saren the turian traitor" in their movie or else they get sued.

[Omega-202]

jimmyjoefro wrote...

They buy the Mass Effect name, which has notoriety amongst gamers and an established fan base. They also bought the ability to use anything associated with Mass Effect; aliens, organization e.g. Cerberus, names, dates, places, etc.. If don't don't buy the rights, they can't say something like "Saren the turian traitor" in their movie or else they get sued.

But my point is that if they're not going to be using Shepard's story as so many here seem to want, they could simply rename and slightly change all of the aliens and not have to worry about paying or a lawsuit.

Do you know how niche the gamer culture fanbase is when it comes to "geek" movies?  Our incessant fervor NEVER equates to box office sales.  

Let me refer you to the box office gross for Scott Pilgrim versus the World.  The gamer/geek community was all over the movie before it released.  They had a riot at their panel at ComicCon.  Their producers thought the movie was going the be HUGE.  It wasn't.  It was a great movie, but the gamer culture is more likely to have people stay home and download the movie than actually pay to see it in theaters.

So if they're buying the name, simply to try and draw out the gamers, it was money completely wasted.  

If they bought the name and IP in order to play on the general audience's social awareness of the franchise, most likely through the furor it caused on the news 2 years ago (ooo, digital sex is bad....) then it was a good move.  

Nothing in the Mass Effect universe is unique.  Nothing in Sci-Fi is anymore.  Its all derivative.  Someone could go out and remake Mass Effect into the prequel concept that everyone's pitching, including all of the characters and factions with different names and looks and NOBODY would bat an eye.  

And sadly, if Legendary Pics went ahead and did that (rename and re-skin a First Contact War movie) , EA/BioWare would not be winning the legal battle against them.  There's no way they could afford to compete and it would be thrown out of court because none of the concepts are unique to begin with.  


EDIT:  Just noticed someone linked the Cracked article about SP vs tW above.  Its the perfect example of why the producers of the ME movie should ignore any feedback about how "this movie will ruin my version of Shepard" or "they should do a niche prequel".  They need to take the story, translate it into a good movie and ignore the gamer input.  Pretend they're making a space version of James Bond with the games holding the same relevance as Ian Flemming's novels.  Make it for the general audience first and foremost.  

Modifié par Omega-202, 28 septembre 2010 - 05:20 .

[xxMr Anarchyxx]

It should be based on the First Contact War, also one thing i'd definetilly like to see is Asari strippers so who's with me?

[HazelrahFiver]

A movie containing the basic storyline from Mass Effect has already been made, it's called Fifth Element. >< I'm joking, but only slightly. If that isn't where the general idea for the Reaper storyline came from... well, I wouldn't believe it if I heard otherwise.



That aside, I don't see why a Mass Effect television series couldn't work. The problem would be that when it came time for the show to end, if it were popular, the studio would not let it drop. Almost nothing works if they try and continue it forever, and I would want a solid, well thought out ending (like we are going to get in the game, I presume.)



A movie... would be tough. I disagree with many that it couldn't have Shepard. Try as we might to ignore it... there is a definitive male Shepard that is on the box art for the games. I understand the art doesn't depict his choices however. It would probably work best as a trilogy, but I suppose that would be coming full circle into the fact that there are three games.



All I know is that I think Matthew Fox would make a fantastic Shepard, and therefore I want the movie to happen.