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[Vertrix]

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.

 

I think they already declared that the character of the movie will be a male shepard, and that the plot would be the one of the first game. And since the ''canon'' shepard appears to be ''earthborne, sole survivor'', well, i think that's what we should expect.
They did the same in SWTOR setting a canon for revan (male) and the exile (female)....

[N7Jamaican]

They would probably have the movie set in Andromeda.  Makes sense.  Like a prequel to the ME:A (how we got there)

[Jeremiah12LGeek]

If this was ever a serious idea, that's surprising.

 

It's hard to imagine myself watching something like that. I suppose it could happen, but most likely I would ignore the movie's existence entirely.

[FKA_Servo]

I think they already declared that the character of the movie will be a male shepard, and that the plot would be the one of the first game. And since the ''canon'' shepard appears to be ''earthborne, sole survivor'', well, i think that's what we should expect.
They did the same in SWTOR setting a canon for revan (male) and the exile (female)....

 

I'm not surprised, but it would be stupid. There's nothing distinctive enough about Mass Effect that would differentiate it from a thousand other throwaway popcorn disasters. What makes it special is the fact that it's a game where you can, to some extent, direct the narrative. Doing it straight with some hackneyed bald space marine dude would guarantee its irrelevance.

 

It was stupid in TOR, too. Revan as canonized by Drew Karpyshyn is a trite, boring clown, and his depiction in SWTOR was character destroying. They need to steer clear of this stuff. There's no reason why they ever need to establish a canon for any of the characters we've played. And if they can't make a compelling Mass Effect film without tearing it from the game, I don't think they should make one at all.

[N7Jamaican]

As long as it's not directed by M. Night Shamalyan or whatever his name is.

[KaiserShep]

I think they already declared that the character of the movie will be a male shepard, and that the plot would be the one of the first game. And since the ''canon'' shepard appears to be ''earthborne, sole survivor'', well, i think that's what we should expect.
They did the same in SWTOR setting a canon for revan (male) and the exile (female)....

Wasn't the whole Revan thing on account of him being part of an IP BioWare did not directly control?

I'd be curious as to which joker they'd cast as Shepard. They should make him canonically hook up with Kaidan.

[timebean]

Remember the Matrix trilogy, and that little series of cartoons that came between the 2nd and 3rd (I think)? That was pretty cool and a great way to show what happened in the interval between movies.  I would love to see a set of cartoons, each done by a different artists, that have little snippets of post-ME3 stories...something to help get us to Andromeda.  Something that doesn't destroy everyone's personal canons. I think something like that would be wicked!  And not the giant fart that a blockbuster movie would be...

[Jaquio]

The movie would be uncanny for too many people.

 

I have a good friend, and she played as a renegade femshep.  I, on the other hand, played as a paragon mshep.  Our experiences with the main character and the very basics of establishing the story are vastly different.  A movie couldn't reconcile that.  No matter how faithfully they produce the movie, one of the two of us is going to leave feeling that the movie wasn't our Mass Effect.

[Gago]

I would totally watch movie about Garrus and Co sweeping Omega or Rachni Wars or Wrex vs Aria Aleena or Aderson viewpoint during the First Contact War... The list goes on and on which isn't the case for Shep's story because it is extremely difficult to make the right one; whatever LI, choice, response or ending is chosen for the movie there will be a lot of fans which will be disappointed.

[Vertrix]

I'm not surprised, but it would be stupid. There's nothing distinctive enough about Mass Effect that would differentiate it from a thousand other throwaway popcorn disasters. What makes it special is the fact that it's a game where you can, to some extent, direct the narrative. Doing it straight with some hackneyed bald space marine dude would guarantee its irrelevance.

 

It was stupid in TOR, too. Revan as canonized by Drew Karpyshyn is a trite, boring clown, and his depiction in SWTOR was character destroying. They need to steer clear of this stuff. There's no reason why they ever need to establish a canon for any of the characters we've played. And if they can't make a compelling Mass Effect film without tearing it from the game, I don't think they should make one at all.

 

I actually tend to agree with everything you said, except for the fact that mass effect has a fresh new sci-fi setting and lore and, if correctly depicted, i think it could become the new star wars....And also, well, i might be the only one in this, but the plot of mass effect 1 is one of my favouritess in the rpg, and i think it is more than adequate for a film

[Vertrix]

Wasn't the whole Revan thing on account of him being part of an IP BioWare did not directly control?
 

Knowing EA, you are probably very right in this, but i actually never went to look for informations about this

[Vertrix]

The movie would be uncanny for too many people.

 

I have a good friend, and she played as a renegade femshep.  I, on the other hand, played as a paragon mshep.  Our experiences with the main character and the very basics of establishing the story are vastly different.  A movie couldn't reconcile that.  No matter how faithfully they produce the movie, one of the two of us is going to leave feeling that the movie wasn't our Mass Effect.

 

Well, this is the problem with every rpg....If you want to make a movie, or even a sequel, out of it, you need to force some choices into players/viewers.....cannot be avoided

[Winterking]

If the idea is to tell Shepard's story they might aswell scrap the film already. The trilogy could work as tv show but as a film it would be terrible. 

[WildOrchid]

Keep this movie far away from us.

[Vertrix]

If the idea is to tell Shepard's story they might aswell scrap the film already. The trilogy could work as tv show but as a film it would be terrible. 

 

No at single film....making it 3 movies would be fine, imho

[FKA_Servo]

Well, this is the problem with every rpg....If you want to make a movie, or even a sequel, out of it, you need to force some choices into players/viewers.....cannot be avoided

 

Emphatically disagree. Some choices =/= the identity and actions of the central character of the story. Minimal retcons, like what Bioware has controversially run with, are one thing, the protagonist is another entirely. I think what Bioware did with Revan was completely unecessary.

 

I also think a movie that poorly rehashes a game is redundant from the word go. A new story, with new characters? Could be cool.

[ArabianIGoggles]

If they do ever make it, at least we know the main character will look like Shepard.

 

[Winterking]

No at single film....making it 3 movies would be fine, imho

Adapting the second game as film would be a nightmare. As tv show however, it can work pretty well. Even the first game would work better as tv show because filler episodes could be used to introduce Cerberus, Bring Down the Sky etc...

 

How could you fit Eden Prime, the Citadel, Feros, Therum, Noveria, Virmire and Ilos in a three hour movie (that's being generous)? The story would have to be gutted in order to make a film about the first game IMO.

[KaiserShep]

The film should have the Thorian pumping out fully armored and armed asari clones. It's sure to thrill those in the audience who have no idea about Mass Effect.

[FKA_Servo]

I actually tend to agree with everything you said, except for the fact that mass effect has a fresh new sci-fi setting and lore and, if correctly depicted, i think it could become the new star wars....And also, well, i might be the only one in this, but the plot of mass effect 1 is one of my favouritess in the rpg, and i think it is more than adequate for a film

 

I think there's zero chance for anything other than Star Wars to be Star Wars for the foreseeable future, least of all Mass Effect. Something of Star Wars' magnitude is something that can probably happen only once a century or so.

 

Mass Effect 1 is my favorite Bioware game (can't overstate that), but the setting and the story are as derivative as as all get out (derivative of Star Wars, too). It's all expertly put together, and it's beautifully designed, but it's nothing new, for sure. And frankly, at this point, story telling in games is necessarily viewed according to a different standard than other mediums. What makes ME special is the depth of the setting, the ramifications of different outcomes, the ability to go through the story at a certain pace, explore, and direct the events, and the ability to get to know a neat cast of characters. I don't think you can just make a film of it and expect to capture any of that goodness, as Winterking also observes, because it just wouldn't work.

 

Don't have anything nice to say about any potential ME2 film, so I'll end it there.

[Jaquio]

Ultimately, why is this something we need or want?

 

Movies cost a lot of money to produce, and I'd rather those resources go into making the ME:A stellar, or, more realistically, another ME game.

 

There's something odd about the "turn video games into movies" movement which seems to imply that being turned into a movie is some sort of graduation, a rite of passage that turns a game into something "better."  It's as though games aren't as legitimate or as valid of a medium for storytelling.

 

Why would I want to enjoy Mass Effect passively when I can enjoy Mass Effect actively?

[Fixers0]

I can see a Mass Effect film being done that is extremely losely based on the events of the game and with that I mean that there will only superficial similarities, If any. Shepard will feature, probably though he will be nothing like in the games. He will be  in the military but that's were the comparision ends. Most alien races are present though severly redesigned. The squad composition is going to be entirely different, too; It will be 6-7 Alliance Marines (of which about half will be killed) with one maybe two alien advisors attached. Furthermore the plot will only have the vaguest connection with the actual story of Mass Effect. It might very well open with the attack on eden prime but the context will be completely different, Spectre status and interstellar politics will be a lot less prominent and Noveria, Therum, Virmire and Feros, will be mashed together into a single planet on which most on the middle portion takes place. Ilos and the conduit will be severly reworked and the finale might not even take place on the Citadel. Aesthetically speaking, it will probably be very much contemporary inspirated with an aim to create an overall gritty visual style.

[WildOrchid]

Games that have gender/romance/class choices shouldn't be made into movies. It ruins the fans immersions on what is canon and what not. Plus you would have a lot of those annoying people saying the movie is canon because ME team approved it and all.

 

If they have to do a ME movie, it should be focused on other things and not on Shepard.

[Laughing_Man]

I'm not going to bother watching a rehash of ME. Not with the somewhat problematic plot and the terribad ending.

 

That said, I wouldn't mind seeing - "Mass Effect: First Contact" as a movie.

 

The movie would start with the discovery of the prothean ruins on mars,

perhaps the *real* discovery that may have occured years before the public was made aware of it.

 

Then the movie will jump to the "Relay 314 incident" on the timeline.

 

Could be entertaining.

 

I would be open for AU scenarios becoming a movie, same universe - different stories.

[Vertrix]

What i am saying is: we all agree that a move will never be as good as the videogame, but that doesn't necessarily mean it will suck...I, personally, am excited about a mass effect film, as i would be excited about a dragon age film