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[Display Name Owner]

I don't think it would ruin the series for me if it was based on a canonised Shepard, but I'd certainly prefer just about anything else.

Really I'd rather they just stayed away from Shep in general. In fact if you ask me an animated movie would be better than a live action blockbuster type thing. Not an anime either, by the way, but a 2D animated movie based on, say C-Sec or something that goes down on Omega. Just something on the general goings on of the MEverse. With a non-human protagonist.

 

Eh. I'm not too bothered at this point. If the movie's rubbish there are always the games.

[Arcian]

What's wrong with the platypus?

Have you SEEN the platypus?

[Winterking]

I don't want a Mass Effect movie based on the Shepard trilogy because I don't think Hollywood could do it justice and to be honest I find that adapting each game to a movie would be a nightmare. 

 

The plot of Mass Effect 2 would be terrible as movie.

 

However I wouldn't mind a tv show based on the Shepard trilogy. That could work and they could even make the story better by filling out some plot holes from the gaming trilogy. 

 

 

[Daemul]

It should be a Game of Thrones like TV show, not a movie, unless each movie was atleast 2.5 hrs long to allow for proper development.

[Kantr]

It should be a Game of Thrones like TV show, not a movie, unless each movie was atleast 2.5 hrs long to allow for proper development.

Considering the track record of sci-fi shows. I predict if it even gets made after the pilot they'll kill it after one season

[CrutchCricket]

We all know what'll happen: They'll make two really good movies, then the third one will let us all down and make us wish we never started watching them in the first place.

 

...and? You have played the third game, have you not?

 

That's actually my response to most of the "it'll suck" crowd. I'm no fan of Hollywood's shenanigans either and video game movies do have a proven history of being total ****. But in this case what more can they do? We've lived through "art", we can live through anything.

 

Though for the record, if you flashback to 2012, while Bioware was giving us "art", Hollywood gave us the Avengers. Sure it wasn't Citizen Kane, or the Godfather. But I know which one I'd go with (or to, as it were).

[SNascimento]

It should be loosely based on the games. Keep the major things and the overall main story, but the rest can all be changed to fit a film. 

And the most obvious off all things in human history of course: cast Emily Blunt as Commander Shepard. 

[JoeTheQuarian]

It should be loosely based on the games. Keep the major things and the overall main story, but the rest can all be changed to fit a film. 

And the most obvious off all things in human history of course: cast Emily Blunt as Commander Shepard. 

If a movie happens I don't want an alternate ME universe for the films. I want something in the same universe that could maybe even connect with the games. I just don't want any new interpretations of already great games.

[KaiserShep]

The only story that could work would be something entirely outside of the reaper plot, because the reaper plot itself would make a terrible movie. It would have to be torn down and restructured entirely to work, because as it is, it's an illogical mess. Of course, there's also no way to really capture any of the characters in detail as we know them now, because there's just not enough time within the scope of a motion picture to do so, as opposed to a serial format.

[RatThing]

I just can't imagine a Mass Effect movie would be good. Which movie based on a video game was good so far? But they can go ahead and do it, it won't destroy anything for me.

 

edit: If there will be a big expensive hollywood movie, I'm damn sure it will be about Shepard and the Reapers. The producers will go for a minimum risk strategy and give people something familiar.

[WizzyWarlock]

Which movie based on a video game was good so far? 

I actually quite liked Alone in the Dark. Doom was fun too, and Silent Hill was actually pretty good. The Tomb Raider movie wasn't too bad along with some of the Resident Evil movies. Really liked Hitman. Max Payne was weird, but enjoyable. Bad movies based on video games? Well, look no further than House of the Dead. Worst. Movie. Ever!

[fhs33721]

We all know what'll happen: They'll make two really good movies, then the third one will let us all down and make us wish we never started watching them in the first place.

No, you are doing it wrong. They'll make two  good movies, one medicore one and then "Mass effect 3: Part 2" will make you wish you never started watching in the first place. If you want to complain you might as well complain about the movie industry as well for a 2x combo.

[dgcatanisiri]

There's just no way to do justice to the Mass Effect trilogy in a film treatment. Part of the point of it being a video game is the variation and choice (regardless of how well that's implemented in game). The fun is in crafting a character. A movie can only offer one story, rather than be retold in different ways several times over. Too much would have to be changed or cut for time.

 

I'm not against a Mass Effect movie, provided it has NOTHING to do with Commander Shepard. There are plenty of tales to be told in the Mass Effect universe. But Shepard's story is best told within the context of video games, not a movie.

[Jaron Oberyn]

 

Probably not.

 

There hasn't been any news in a long time, so it is most likely stuck in in development hell. I think this was the last definite news about the project:

 

Original ‘Mass Effect’ Movie Writer Says Game Was Too Difficult to Adapt

Interesting. Can't say I really care either way though. Would be cool to see, but on the other hand it really isn't necessary especially if it's just the shepard trilogy all over again.

[Pasquale1234]

How about a side story?

 

The Quarian's creation of the geth, their rise to self-awareness, war with their creators, ending with the restoration of peace on Rannoch could make a decent plot.

 

The whole organics versus synthetics thing is also a central theme in ME, and could provide a lot of food for thought for an audience unfamiliar with ME.

[sH0tgUn jUliA]

Mass Effect reimagined 2016. Just rewrite everything and loosely base it on the series. And make it a TV series. Give it a good ending.

[JoeTheQuarian]

There's just no way to do justice to the Mass Effect trilogy in a film treatment. Part of the point of it being a video game is the variation and choice (regardless of how well that's implemented in game). The fun is in crafting a character. A movie can only offer one story, rather than be retold in different ways several times over. Too much would have to be changed or cut for time.

 

I'm not against a Mass Effect movie, provided it has NOTHING to do with Commander Shepard. There are plenty of tales to be told in the Mass Effect universe. But Shepard's story is best told within the context of video games, not a movie.

I have to agree with you there. Thats why I think something based on the books or comics would be good for a movie because the games are already so good that there is no way they could do it justice in a 2 hour movie.

[RanetheViking]

Have you SEEN the platypus?

Yeah I have. 

[dorktainian]

mass effect the movie should have mass effect 1's storyline, and shoehorn mass effect 2 and 3 into the time he's stuck in the rubble of the citadel/sovereign.  Make it all weird and stuff like the end of 2001, but actually have shep emerging from the rubble at the end.

 

reaper threat over...... next

[KaiserShep]

How about a side story?

 

The Quarian's creation of the geth, their rise to self-awareness, war with their creators, ending with the restoration of peace on Rannoch could make a decent plot.

 

The whole organics versus synthetics thing is also a central theme in ME, and could provide a lot of food for thought for an audience unfamiliar with ME.

 

The problem with side stories is that they don't have the mass appeal that the main story does. People who are more familiar with the IP might be more interested, but Shepard is pretty much the center of the Mass Effect franchise, at least for now. You just know that the people most concerned with this picture making money would want to sell the most recognizable elements of the story, being Shepard and the motherloving reapers.

[Fixers0]

I doubt a mainstream audiance would even recogonize Mass Effect, It was quite big in the months leading up to ME3 and the ending backlash certainly gained addition attention as well, but now that has all but faded away.

 

It's been almost three years since the release of Mass Effect 2 and the end Shepard trilogy, the last news we got dated from the film dated from mid-late 2013. We haven't heard anything about the project in more than a year. Face it; If the film is not dead thant it is somewhere very deep in development hell. 

[katamuro]

I think if they condense the first game, even with a canonised shepard it should be ok. The story missions in ME1 make up around 7 hours anyway so condensing that into a 2 hour movie shouldn't be too bad. I just hope they choose the actors wisely and do a paragade shepard. 

[Valmar]

Getting them to make a completely unique story within the ME universe is asking for too much, imo. I'd prefer it but the likely hood of it happening is practically non-existent. It would follow the general story of the first game and be mostly romance, drama and action. Liara and Ashley might have a fight over who gets to be with Shepard. Most of the alien squad will get very small roles and those who aren't fans of the series already likely won't learn much about them as they'll be glossed over. They'll get a lot of the parts of the lore/story disgustingly wrong and fans will be foaming from the mouths. Some characters will be charged rather drastically but will get mixed results from fans because some might enjoy the changes if they didn't like the original character in the first place - it'll be a matter of debate on the forums for sometime.

 

In the end it will be a pretty decent movie on its own but as a Mass Effect movie specifically it will be disappointing and fans of the series will not be happy. Fortunately for Hollywood their target audience isn't really the fans but the general public and thats why it'd do okay. Will it be as bad to its subject lore as Avatar the Last Airbender? Probably not, but it'll still be bad. You'll probably question if the writer/director/actors/anyone involved in it had any knowledge of the actual game at all or even bothered to watch it on youtube. Or, at best, you'll feel that there was only one guy there that actually tried to keep things within lore but ultimately didn't get his way often enough. It'll feel like a cash-in to fans but like I said overall as a just a movie it'll be pretty good.

 

Personally I wish the movie would focus on the First Contact war. There's a lot more leeway there and less chance for them to mess up. Especially if the only other race humanity sees for the majority of the film is the turians. Until the end when peace comes and the story ends with us learning about the citadel and council races. That will be the cliffhanger that has people excited to see the next movie. Which will have all the problems mentioned previously. I believe that if they made one set in the time of the First Contact War then us fans could at least get one decent movie out of hollywood before they ruin it.

[Killdren88]

Movies like these won't work. Because most likely people expect to see their play through. They will get pissed if they don't choose their LI the moral choices and Etc.

[Larry-3]

The 840 year old virgin. A movie about an impossibly nerdy asari.

 

What? I pay attention to the news... sometimes.

 

I picture an asari stumbling over her words attempting to talk to a human.