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[masleslie]

I see a lot of negative comments on the forums, especially people saying that the lack of any news for so long probably means the movie won't happen.

At this point I think it might for two unrelated reasons.

Avi Arad & Star Wars.

Although you might never have heard of Avi Arad you will know his films. He was the driving force behind the X-Men movies, Spiderman, Iron Man etc. He had the unenviable task of getting quality, live action movies made of Marvel comics characters at a time when superhero movies were frowned on after Batman & Robin. He was so successful he took Marvel from bankrupcy to being able to finance the first Iron Man movie out of their own pocket in 10 years. Along the way he had to convince investors to pour millions into what was seen as a failing company, and contributed significantly to taking superhero movies from a laughable, minority genre to being the mainstay of our summer action movies. One of the first things he did after leaving Marvel for fresh challenges was to buy the rights to Mass Effect. He then went into partnership with Legendary pictures who have produced the Dark Knight trilogy, the 300 & Watchmen, among others. This seems to be almost a statement of intent to do for video game movies what they have done for superhero movies. At this point i'm not brave enough to count them out.

The announcement that Star Wars had been bought by Disney, and they were going to make more movies was initially greeted with skepticism by fans. Now that JJ Abrams is directing that has changed and there is almost a buzz about the project. Hollywood loves a bandwaggon. How many fantasy themed movies were released after the success of the original Lord of the Rings? If Star Wars VII proves to be a big success in 2015 other studios will be clamouring for Sci-Fi projects they can green light to cash in. The danger with this is that most of them will be poor quality & low budget, rushed through with too much interference from the studios & accountants. However if Legendary & Arad are in a position by then to be ready to go into production with a good script they may be able to get the financial backing to do it right.

The lack of any real news is dissapointing but as the saying goes - 'it ain't over till the fat lady sings'.

I hope fans can continue to be positive about the movie to encourage them to get it made.

Modifié par masleslie, 27 mars 2013 - 11:15 .

[FireFlash44]

If they were to do a Mass Effect film I'd be excited, and after reading this I'm much more optimistic.

But I think if you were to tell the Mass Effect Trilogy in a medium besides games it should be in the form of a TV series like Game of Thrones. There's just so much great stuff to explore, a single film could never do it justice...

[KevinT18]

Agree about the TV series thing, but the budget would be too low and likeliness of cancellation too high.

OP, there is no lack of talk of the movie, Hudson talked about it at PAX

[mcgreggers99]

KevinT18 wrote...

Agree about the TV series thing, but the budget would be too low and likeliness of cancellation too high.

OP, there is no lack of talk of the movie, Hudson talked about it at PAX

Before Casey's update though there hadn't been a peep since October when Morgan Davis Foeh was brought in to re-work the script.

I was really happy that Casey commented on it. Keeping hope alive.

Arad is also attached to the feature adaptions of both Metal Gear and Uncharted. He's betting the farm on videogames being the next big thing like comics were.

[KoorahUK]

KevinT18 wrote...

Agree about the TV series thing, but the budget would be too low and likeliness of cancellation too high.

OP, there is no lack of talk of the movie, Hudson talked about it at PAX

BSG was amazing, as is Game of Thrones. Mass Effect is primarily a story about people, it could be done.

[Addictress]

Like Game of Thrones? Really? They'd contaminate the series with loads of graphic alien sex scenes. I don't need excessive pron in Mass Effect to feel like the fictional universe is mature. I'm sorry.

Modifié par Addictress, 27 mars 2013 - 01:53 .

[KoorahUK]

Addictress wrote...

Like Game of Thrones? Really? They'd contaminate the series with loads of graphic alien sex scenes. I don't need excessive pron in Mass Effect to feel like the fictional universe is mature. I'm sorry.

Forgive me if you were joking, sarcasm doesn't often come across well in text but... erm...what? 

Do you think that I meant they should make a Mass Effect TV series in a psudo fantasy/Medieval setting too? Try not to think so literally please.

I was suggesting that there are high quality TV series with a budget large enough to do Mass Effect proud, like Battlestar Galactica and Game of Thrones.

BTW, the Game of Thrones books are littered with sex, hence their presence in the TV series. There wasn't a profusion of sex in BSG if I recall.

[ev76]

This gives me hope! I think a mass effect movie if treated correctly would be a great movie.

[KevinT18]

KoorahUK wrote...

Addictress wrote...

Like Game of Thrones? Really? They'd contaminate the series with loads of graphic alien sex scenes. I don't need excessive pron in Mass Effect to feel like the fictional universe is mature. I'm sorry.

Forgive me if you were joking, sarcasm doesn't often come across well in text but... erm...what? 

Do you think that I meant they should make a Mass Effect TV series in a psudo fantasy/Medieval setting too? Try not to think so literally please.

I was suggesting that there are high quality TV series with a budget large enough to do Mass Effect proud, like Battlestar Galactica and Game of Thrones.

BTW, the Game of Thrones books are littered with sex, hence their presence in the TV series. There wasn't a profusion of sex in BSG if I recall.

yeah Koorah I think you're a bit off the mark. Addictress obviously doesnt mean ME: GOT edition. It would just be on television. And yes GOT - the books - have tons of blood, lust, and secks.

Again ME fits much better as a TV series, but it would likely diverge a lot eventually from the ME trilogy, as there's no way Watamaniuk, Hudson, Walters, and Hudson would be able to be exec producing/showrunning as well as making games. Which at least one of would need to stay on to keep creative vision intact.

So for various reasons a film and TV series each have pros and cons

[Wolfva2]

Addictress wrote...

Like Game of Thrones? Really? They'd contaminate the series with loads of graphic alien sex scenes. I don't need excessive pron in Mass Effect to feel like the fictional universe is mature. I'm sorry.

Heh...if they did a GoT formula for the ME movie...well, it'd have BroShep and Femshep both in it as siblings.  AND love interest.  

[Bendigoe]

As long as the movie doesn't have any influence on how future Instalments are presented then I've got no gripe with It.
I don't have to see It.

[Chris Priestly]

Just pointing out that during the Mass Effect A Retrospective panel at PAX East last weekend, Casey confirmed the movie IS still being made. Just in case people missed that.

[Shepard_Commander11]

Like it has been stated, a Mass Effect TV series would be ideal, but low chance that it could function with a low budget.

[shepskisaac]

Chris Priestly wrote...

Just pointing out that during the Mass Effect A Retrospective panel at PAX East last weekend, Casey confirmed the movie IS still being made. Just in case people missed that.

Well technically the Uncharted, Halo, Gears of War, World of Warcraft, Deus Ex, Asassin's Creed movies are also still technically being made, but that doesn't mean much 

[Wiggly]

Chris Priestly wrote...

Just pointing out that during the Mass Effect A Retrospective panel at PAX East last weekend, Casey confirmed the movie IS still being made. Just in case people missed that.

YES!

I NEED the Mass Effect Movie, I'll literally die without it 

[AlexMBrennan]

Well technically the Uncharted, Halo, Gears of War, World of Warcraft, Deus Ex, Asassin's Creed movies are also still technically being made, but that doesn't mean much

last weekend, Casey confirmed the movie IS still being made

I'll literally die without it

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Modifié par AlexMBrennan, 28 mars 2013 - 09:19 .

[Addictress]

Like IsaacShep said, lots of videogame movies are rumored to be in the works, but how do we make sure this one really takes off within the span of my youth?

I mean really Bioware, what do you need I will do anything in my power to assist. ANYTHING.

[JMTolan]

The movie isn't being made, at this point, it's being planned. Making a movie takes, if you know what you're doing and being reasonable, 3-5 years, with a more or less steady stream of news after the first year or two. Planning a movie takes as long as it very well pleases, and has a great deal more influence on what the movie winds up being.

Planning a movie involves commissioning, re-commissioning, re-writing, revising, and re-revising a script that the executives are happy with. It involves finding a director who shares at least some kernel of the vision you have for the movie and won't run wild with the script ignoring half of it. Before all of that it involves major decisions about size, scope, characters, length, special effects, budget, genre, live-action versus mo-cap versus pure CGI, and any of a number of other decisions.

All of those decisions take, if you're making them smartly, a long time, behind closed doors, without much to tell the public because the actual film--what the consumer will, by the end of it all, watch--is still so much in a flux of gray that making any kind of promise beyond "Mass Effect movie" is likely change before you actually get to making the movie.

This is, for those curious, why many movies aren't even announced until after or (relatively) shortly before casting/shooting happens. Until you get all of those decisions made, you don't really know anything near the ballpark of what you're going to have at the end of the day--or indeed, if it will get made at all. The ME movie was announced, by all indications, around the time Bioware and Legendary Pictures both agreed it was thing they wanted to do together, before any major decisions about it had been considered, let alone made.

So no, the ME movie isn't still being made, it never started being made. It is, by all indications we have (Of which I will be the first to admit there are a very scant few), still being planned, though, and I am rather content to let them take as long as they need to, because a bad decision now could lead to spectacular failure much more readily than a bad decision halfway through shooting.

Yes, we aren't hearing much, but that's the nature of the beast. At this point there just isn't anything solid enough to talk about that they wouldn't risk having to take back later--they've already switched script writers, if I recall correctly.

-Tolan

[KenLyns]

^+1 For a ME movie to do it justice, it will need a budget in excess of $150 million, a lot more than it takes to make the game, and a lot to lose if it doesn't do well at the box office.

[nopantsisabela]

Is the movie going to be about Shepard + crew? Because as much as I love ME, I would absolutely not see it if it was. Besides the fact that I played as a female Shepard, there's also the issue of the voices. In my opinion, the voice acting MADE the characters. I don't think I could handle a movie without Seth Green as Joker, Brandon Keener voicing Garrus, Tricia Hefler as EDI, etc. It would just be so jarring.

[JMTolan]

Word on the grape vine back in the day was that it was going to be based on ME1, but given how long it's been--and, as I said before, that they've changed scriptwriters--I think it's safe to say that that's one of several possibilities. Voice casting is probably a major concern with that idea, aside from them having to convince themselves canonizing a path for a movie is okay, though given how many of the VAs seemed to love doing the work, it might be possible--but again, that's a maybe, and there are still plenty of other obstacles to that.

I'd bet on a new story--or at least a concurrent one--for the movie, honestly mostly because it's an easier proposition. No-to-few restrictions for cast, and lots of wiggle-room in the story.

My bets, in order (You might notice that many of these settings also work for new games):

First Contact War
ME3-timeline, set following a footsoldier in the resistance on Earth.
New story, set in the 2 years between ME1 and 2.

-Tolan

[Gulaman]

I prefer a TV series. GoT is a good example because it's well written, well acted and big budget. And a ME TV series will need a decent budget to do it justice. A movie will suck, just as ALL movies based on video games have done.

[kobayashi-maru]

As I said on similar thread it's nearing the crunch time on whether it will be made. Firstly if they are serious they need to introduce new protagonist and scale everything back. Less Star trek and more like what Dredd 3D did, a smaller story, lower budget introduction to the Universe. It allows better chance to make a profit and get future movies made with higher aspirations.

But main reason its crunch time is that I suspect the success or failure of other new Riddick movie will influence whether it is made.

Modifié par kobayashi-maru, 29 mars 2013 - 12:28 .

[Wolfva2]

Wiggly wrote...

Chris Priestly wrote...

Just pointing out that during the Mass Effect A Retrospective panel at PAX East last weekend, Casey confirmed the movie IS still being made. Just in case people missed that.

YES!

I NEED the Mass Effect Movie, I'll literally die without it 

Well, to be honest you'll literally die with it as well.  I mean, no offense but you're not exactly getting any younger ya know....

[AVPen]

IsaacShep wrote...

Chris Priestly wrote...

Just pointing out that during the Mass Effect A Retrospective panel at PAX East last weekend, Casey confirmed the movie IS still being made. Just in case people missed that.

Well technically the Uncharted, Halo, Gears of War, World of Warcraft, Deus Ex, Asassin's Creed movies are also still technically being made, but that doesn't mean much 

If you wanna get even more technical, then there is technically already a movie based off  Halo ("Halo: Forward Unto Dawn").

EDIT: Apparently "Assassin's Creed: Lineage" is more of a short film then an actual movie like "Halo: Foward Unto Dawn" is. (and yes, I also realized that H:FUD was originally web episodes as well, am referring to the final film version that's now released on DVD/Blu-ray)

Modifié par AVPen, 29 mars 2013 - 03:19 .