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[M74]

Mass Effect The Movie as fan creation - or is it?
 
 
I don’t know how serious the film makers are, but they need to consider this:
How many hours of dialogue alone in Mass Effect 1, 2, 3, is proof that a movie would exceed the film strip of Lord Of The Rings by approximately 5 times or more. That is, for those of us who have played the trilogy know how many hours Mass Effect 1 has had. Mass Effect 3 can be put into 45 minutes by excluding the withheld From Ashes DLC on game release which would amount to 45 minutes (Leviathan DLC would make easy 60 minutes). Mass Effect 2 is at least a 5 hour flick (with LOTSB, Project Overlord and Arrival DLC).
 
To be fair, right off the bat, I don’t see Mass Effect the movie to be a blockbuster when it hits the silver screens. On the flipside, those who haven’t played the trilogy, it will be good advertising to give it a shot, buying the games. Mass Effect is far too complex to say: “hell yeah, let’s make a movie, folks”. It’s not gonna work that way, “trust me”.
 
To wrap this up, my prognosis is, storytelling games will at some point, eventually, overtake the film industry as graphics and hardware gets better. Actors in the near future will be hired for mocaps and voice-overs as Mass Effect demonstrated, initially, this concept can and does work (not speaking of the backend EA itself – that’s another long story (sigh)).

[MrStoob]

For many of the fans, it simply would not work. I have no desire to watch BroShep bagging off with Ashley (almost guaranteed to keep the regular movie goers happy) when my Shep is female and romanced Liara. All those decisions would be watered down and no way would they include that much of the original dialogue. We as gamers spent hours with the characters and getting to know them, which could not be done in a movie. Game to movie conversions are without exception, utter pants.

[M74]

Exactly. Also, how will it work filming Virmire?
The last time I have seen Ashley, was on Virmire. She’s dead in my Mass Effect universe (I guess I get some hate-mail later on). Though I’m playing a male Shepard, I don’t date Kaidan in Mass Effect 3 and no heart-touching moments on Horizon (for heterosexuals or opposing same-sex players, be careful, it can happen without knowing the storyline and your romance with Liara or Tali (not recommended – the dextro-amino thing, you know) is dashed).

Film-makers, you see where this thing is going, right?
Decisions, decisions… and just too many characters to fall in love with.
Anyway, don’t get a headache writing the script (112 pages at max for a spec - if I recall Hollywood standards).

[Abraham_uk]

What if the film isn't based on the games?

What if it told it's own separate story with different characters, whilst staying true to the universe and the lore?

[MrStoob]

Mebbe.

[M74]

Abraham_uk wrote...

What if the film isn't based on the games?

What if it told it's own separate story with different characters, whilst staying true to the universe and the lore?

Maybe you are right, if so, we probably would expect a cleanup to see what happened after reapers are destroyed back on Earth. Just my guessing. Just how will others see it, as such, if they don't know Mass Effect?

[draconian139]

If I was making a Mass Effect movie I'd set it in the First Contact War. It would be one way to introduce the universe to movie goers. The climax would be the liberation of Shanxi followed by humanity being exposed to the galactic community as a whole.

Edit:The information available to us suggests that it will be based off the events of the first game though.

Modifié par draconian139, 15 janvier 2013 - 01:17 .