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[ExoGeniVI]

We haven't heard anything in almost two years, has it been scrapped?

This is why we need the Off-Lobby topic back.

[Lord Gunsmith 90]

I don't think it's been scrapped, but it's not coming any time soon.

[Vertrix]

not before 2020, i fear......i think i did read somewhere that they would have started working on it in 2016-2017

[SojournerN7]

I'm not sure what to think. On one hand, a Mass Effect movie would be a nice to have in my collection if it turned out to be a roaring success. On the other, video game IPs don't really make the conversion very well.

 

Example: I bought Paragon Lost, but was disappointed in some if the aspects of the produced material mostly lore, and some minor gripes I have with anime in general.

 

The Wiki lists a 2018/2019 debut, but that feels like speculation to me.

[BatarianBob]

If it was going to happen, it would have been back in early 2012 to coincide with ME3. That's when hype would have been at its highest. The series' popularity could only go down from there, even if not for the PR nightmare.

[KaiserShep]

I suspect it's going to stay in development hell. Where it belongs. 

[ExoGeniVI]

I suspect it's going to stay in development hell. Where it belongs. 

Totally agree with you Kaiser, I don't want it to release as a F rated movie and ruin the franchise.

[Remix-General Aetius]

as much as I hate to say this, I don't believe it should ever be made. they will ruin it with abysmal writing and even more abysmal casting. they do the same thing with books. Eragon the movie was pure crap. then I read the book and I was shocked at how much I enjoyed it.

 

HOWEVER...........books/games turned into SERIES, now that's something with potential. series provide more time to focus on details that would be left out in films. like Guillermo Del Toro's "Strain" trilogy. I started reading it a month ago by accident, and then I heard it had already been turned into a series. I watched the pilot and was pleasantly surprised.

 

fresh faces are key here. actors without much exposure. but you just know in the ME movie they'll start casting crap like Tom Cruise or Bradley Cooper or Christian Bale or that douche Chris Pratt or something............they will totally ruin it. as if we're not sick to death of them already with their faces plastered on every film that comes out.

[KaiserShep]

I'd just rather never see a rehash of the Shepard story, though it would have to be rewritten so drastically that it would be nigh unrecognizable in the end. 

 

I like how in a group with Tom Cruise and Christian Bale, Chris Pratt is the douche.

[Remix-General Aetius]

he's always been a douche.

[KaiserShep]

Sokath, his eyes uncovered.

[Killdren88]

When it comes to things like ME or DA....I will only accept animated features. Like make a deal with Netflix or something and focus on some adventurers messing around in Thedas or the Galaxy.

[dgcatanisiri]

As long as they're intending to make it a retelling of Shepard's story, it can stay in development hell for all I care. I am not here for seeing Shepard on the big screen, since Shepard is so many different things to people - a man, a woman, a person of color, gay, straight, bi... And as long as they're only in the games, no one can claim any is any more or less 'the real Shepard' than any other. But give a public face beyond the default, put an actor in the role, give them an 'official' romance, there's going to be claims that THIS is who Shepard is supposed to be, and you know, I really don't have it in me to have to defend how I play to people trying to tell me I'm 'doing it WRONG.'

 

But if they'd give up the idea of a Shepard-focus, if they told a story set in this universe but having NOTHING to do with Shepard, I'd be on board.

[Broganisity]

When movies like Wolfcop are better than movies based on games, you know the world is a strange a beautiful place.

[Oldren Shepard]

Look at this...for the moment

[Drone223]

It's stuck in development hell and its safe to say its going to stay not to mention products released after spending too much time in DH generally tend to be very bad.

[Vertrix]

Well, i remember them saying it would have been faithful to the game.....So yeah, i don't think it would be bad...
Regarding the game based movies....well, i think it largely depends on the game if the movie will be nice or not....some games are quite easy to be made movies, others are not....And i think mass effect is one of the easy ones

[KaiserShep]

I'd say that a movie being "faithful" to the games would be horrendous. The main plot of the Mass Effect games just wouldn't hold up well if given more focus. The games compensate for their narrative deficiencies with lots of interesting characters, subplots, gameplay and its interactive media value, something that would be diminished or lacking entirely in a film. Then there's the notorious ending. There's no way to depict that ridiculous Catalyst scene and not be a train wreck. 

[countofhell]

We haven't heard anything in almost two years, has it been scrapped?

This is why we need the Off-Lobby topic back.

Making movie from ME1 would be fantastic. Good line-up among villains, Saren and Benezia.

[FKA_Servo]

No news is good news (in that hopefully, they wouldn't move forward with it, because it will never not be an awful idea).

[Zazzerka]

What's with all the aversion to the idea? I'm quite happy for a film company to blow half a billion dollars so I can laugh for an afternoon.

[Vertrix]

I'd say that a movie being "faithful" to the games would be horrendous. The main plot of the Mass Effect games just wouldn't hold up well if given more focus. The games compensate for their narrative deficiencies with lots of interesting characters, subplots, gameplay and its interactive media value, something that would be diminished or lacking entirely in a film. Then there's the notorious ending. There's no way to depict that ridiculous Catalyst scene and not be a train wreck. 

 

I disagree with that. I always thought that a good start in making a mass effect 1 movie would have been metling all cutscenes together, and then adding what is needed to fill the gaps.

[LinksOcarina]

I disagree with that. I always thought that a good start in making a mass effect 1 movie would have been metling all cutscenes together, and then adding what is needed to fill the gaps.

 

Someone sort of did that on Youtube already...

 

Honestly, I think the movie can work, it really depends on which direction they go with it.

 

So if it's based on the first game, it would probably start the same way, right after Eden Prime, then the induction halfway through. After that, there is time for maybe one planet before Virmire? A 2 and a half hour movie is difficult to pin down like this without getting real clever...

[FKA_Servo]

I disagree with that. I always thought that a good start in making a mass effect 1 movie would have been metling all cutscenes together, and then adding what is needed to fill the gaps.

 

Ok, but then who is Shepard, and what does s/he do? Ignoring the fact that it's a custom protagonist story, there's enough divergence there that setting a "canon" of sorts would irritate a huge number of the people who'd actually want to see this.

 

Plus, a Mass Effect film starring John Shepard, renegade douchebag, sounds about as appealing as Dawn of the Seeker ended up being.

[Alfonsedode]

just need a very good writer and money