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[pkypereira]

I know there was mention of having a Mass Effect movie in the past around when ME2 came out. But I'm not sure if they ever said if it would or would not happen. Personally, if it were to be done well I would love to see movies or tv shows.

 

I think that to avoid canonization, the movie/tv show would have to be about events prior to the trilogy. These are some of the ideas I had that I posted in another discussion:

 

Mass Effect Origins (tv show): Earth, telling the story of the discovery of the Prothean archives on Mars, finding the Mass Relay in Charon, the First Contact War. Maybe have a couple of episodes dedicated to the background of the Illusive Man. Also having the conflict with the Batarians in the show. Also having Hackett and Anderson before they are made Admirals, and possibly have Saren's mission with Anderson in there somewhere. Maybe hear about a certain Sergeant or Leuitenant Shepard, before his promotion to Commander.

 

Mass Effect Origins: Citadel (short movie-1 hour or 1.5 hours) telling the story of the Asari finding the Prothean archives on Thessia and discovering the Citadel. And then having the Salarians reach the Citadel and having them create the Council. I would only make it a movie because I couldn't see so many Asari for more than 2 hours.

 

Mass Effect Origins: Tuchanka (TV Show) showing the story of how the Krogan destroyed their planet but then Salarians come to uplift them. Also include the Rachni Wars and Krogan Rebellions, including the Turians and Salarians create and release the Genophage.

 

 

Also, depending on where the storyline begins in ME:A we may have a movie/tv show about the journey from Milky Way to Andromeda, maybe some Cerberus agents trying to sabotage the ark or something of that nature.

[N7Jamaican]

I remember seeing a post like this a while back.  I wouldn't mind a tv series.  Hopefully based before the events of the current trilogy. But it will remind me a bit too much of Star Trek Enterprise.

 

Best bet, would be to make David Anderson the protagonist and base it around the first book.  At least, that is my opinion. Or around the Alliance, Turians, and the formation of Cerberus.

[Cheviot]

Nah, after all the blather around the ME3 ending, most production companies would run a mile from anything ME-connected.

[o Ventus]

I would much rather a TV series than a movie. Something like FarScape or Firefly. I would prefer it not be about Shepard though.

[SojournerN7]

Hey, the cartoon wasn't all that bad.

 

[Angry_Elcor]

Unpopular opinion incoming:

 

It's not a commercially viable option.

 

The idea of making a TV show or movie out of an existing franchise does make a lot of sense - up to a point. Mass Effect is a storytelling video game, and counter-intuitively, that makes it a bad choice to try and sell to the people who played the game. They made choices in their story, and seeing a canonized version of events is less likely to interest them. It would be nearly impossible to market a Mass Effect TV/Movie to an audience that hadn't played the game.

 

Plus, there's that niggling problem of the fact that no video game has ever been turned into a good movie or TV show. That video game that you/some people thought was turned into a great TV show/movie? Well, it was critically panned, and most people were injured when their eyes rolled back into their heads when they tried to watch it. You may have loved it, and power to you, but beyond a fringe audience that embraces them, every video game to movie/TV show has been icky at best, and projectile-vomit inducing at worst.

 

Yes, even Mortal Kombat. A decent techno soundtrack does not rescue a badly written and performed movie.

[o Ventus]

Ironically, Wreck-It Ralph is the best video game movie to be made thus far.

 

Kind of like how The Incredibles is the best Fantastic Four movie to be made thus far.

[goishen]

*cough*TWD*cough*

 

But that wasn't a video game first.

[MrFob]

Unpopular opinion incoming:

 

It's not a commercially viable option.

 

The idea of making a TV show or movie out of an existing franchise does make a lot of sense - up to a point. Mass Effect is a storytelling video game, and counter-intuitively, that makes it a bad choice to try and sell to the people who played the game. They made choices in their story, and seeing a canonized version of events is less likely to interest them. It would be nearly impossible to market a Mass Effect TV/Movie to an audience that hadn't played the game.

 

Plus, there's that niggling problem of the fact that no video game has ever been turned into a good movie or TV show. That video game that you/some people thought was turned into a great TV show/movie? Well, it was critically panned, and most people were injured when their eyes rolled back into their heads when they tried to watch it. You may have loved it, and power to you, but beyond a fringe audience that embraces them, every video game to movie/TV show has been icky at best, and projectile-vomit inducing at worst.

 

Yes, even Mortal Kombat. A decent techno soundtrack does not rescue a badly written and performed movie.

 

 

I tend to agree with this, unfortunately.

I'd love an ME tv series but it would need a serious budget to be at a level where I'd really like to watch it and wouldn't be embarrassed by it (as an ME fan). It would definitely also need its own plot, completely independent of the games (i.e. a new ship, new crew, etc.). Why? Simply because the game's central mechanic was the diverging plot, which you could never catch properly in a non-interactive story and also because it would be weird to a tv show about the same stuff that has already been presented to us in an audivisual medium.

Of course, such a new scenario poses its own and new problems: When do you set it? Before the trilogy (as suggested by the OP)? Well, anyone slightly interested in ME will always have in the back of their head that whatever this series shows, it will be dwarfed by the events to come and ultimately, it will either be uninteresting, disconnected or a retcon to the descriptions of previous events in the game. So how about during the time of the trilogy? You could have the characters of the series participate in the reaper war but since you could never have them cross paths with Shepard, either their actions will be ultimately irrelevant or Shepard's will have to be retconned into irrelevance, none of which is a good option. If it plays after the trilogy, you'd have the ending diversion to deal with.

I guess they could do something in Andromeda, which they could then plan in concert with the new game. Not unappealing but as I said, budged constrains and Andry Elcor's points make the idea either unfeasible or unpleasant.

 

All that said, I kind of see the JJ Abram's new Star Trek movies as kind of Mass Effect movies in disguise. IMO, they might as well be ME movies, they have a cast of characters who have a lot of chemistry, fun space adventure and action scenes, plots with gaping wholes and wacky ideas and a complete disregard for the actual lore of the universe (not to mention physics), sleek and colorful visuals and most importantly lot's of lens flare!

In that sense, they are way closer to Mass Effect than they ever were to Star Trek. Maybe when JJ is done with the whole Star Wars thing, he can finally move on to what must be his life's dream and make a Mass Effect movie with the right ship models.

[Killroy]

Why would a Mass Effect movie or TV show have to avoid trilogy canon? It would have no effect on the games at all.

[KaiserShep]

Ironically, Wreck-It Ralph is the best video game movie to be made thus far.

 

Kind of like how The Incredibles is the best Fantastic Four movie to be made thus far.

Hah, I know right? I don't expect there to ever be a video game movie that will satisfy me as thoroughly as Wreck-It Ralph does, and The Incredibles is one of my favorite superhero movies. 

[KaiserShep]

Why would a Mass Effect movie or TV show have to avoid trilogy canon? It would have no effect on the games at all.

 

Putting that aside, I can't help but feel that Mass Effect would be drastically rewritten for a format beyond a video game. Without all the options for interacting with colorful characters, the combat gameplay and all the other various goodies that come with a big expansive game world, the plot itself would be just too much of a hot mess. 

[o Ventus]

I know one thing. If Mass Effect is ever made into a TV show, I would greatly prefer it be a premium channel show (like HBO or Showtime) or broadcast on something like Netflix. None of that CBS or NBC crap. Not only are there commercials, but it's very watered down to fit the FCC's strict guidelines for national broadcasting.

[KaiserShep]

I honestly wouldn't want a live action Mass Effect show. Maybe it's my cartoon-addled brain bias, but I'd much rather see it as an animated series, somewhere along the same vein as the Clone Wars series.

[SolNebula]

Ehhh tbh I'm kind of opposed to the idea...I wouldn't want ME to become THAT mainstream...

[Killroy]

Ehhh tbh I'm kind of opposed to the idea...I wouldn't want ME to become THAT mainstream...

...there are Mass Effect hipsters?

[Addictress]

People keep repeating that movies adapting games failed so hard. I ask

WHY?

You know what? I think it's because Hollywood people aren't gamers. They really aren't. They don't see what we see. They don't RESPECT the medium as we do.

And boy, would they feel hell if they dared spoil Mass Effect with their disrespect.

[Addictress]

It would have to be Joss Whedon though. For sure. He's a Bioware director if I ever saw one. All about ensembles that celebrate the characters. First Avengers was a thrill. Second Avengers wasn't so great but um... Yeah.

[Judas Bock]

People keep repeating that movies adapting games failed so hard. I ask

WHY?

You know what? I think it's because Hollywood people aren't gamers. They really aren't. They don't see what we see. They don't RESPECT the medium as we do.

And boy, would they feel hell if they dared spoil Mass Effect with their disrespect.

 

This, I think, is where the problem is at with film adaptations of games. They're just made for the sake of it, not because there's any passion involved. But hopefully that's about to change.

 

Duncan Jones, the director of the upcoming Warcraft film, said this exact same thing: that video game films have not been good because they've been made by the wrong people. With the Warcraft film, Blizzard themselves are highly involved, and the director is himself a fan of the franchise. That's something that will hopefully lead to a good film.

 

If Mass Effect were to go that route, with the people behind it being people who are fans of the series, I think it could be a great film or series. Just as long as, like everyone else has said, they don't actually base it on Shepard's adventures. Would I like to see Shepard battle the Reapers on the big screen? Of course! But I wouldn't want any one Shepard to be canonized, so I really would prefer something else - First Contact War, something based on the novels, whatever.

[Lee T]

Mass Effect is a cool backdrop, however there's not much scifi story that can only be told using ME. A TV exec signing on a show would prefer a generic backdrop than having to pay EA/Bioware for one. (And having your own IP is way more profitable). Let's face it, as far as they are concerned The Mass Effect name has no value, the ME franchise is unknown to the general majority.

[Heimdall]

I don't really think a Mass Effect Movie/TV Show would be a good idea, but I think the best way to do it would be to tell a story in the Mass Effect Universe rather than telling the story of the trilogy.

[aerisblight]

If Bioware itself made a huge cgi movie of mass effect I would cry adult tears of happiness.

If someone else will make a mass effect movie I will cry sad tears. It will not work.

[MrFob]

This, I think, is where the problem is at with film adaptations of games. They're just made for the sake of it, not because there's any passion involved. But hopefully that's about to change.

 

One can only hope. I'd love to see the era of superhero movies come to a close and give way to an era of really good game-inspired movies.

[N7Jamaican]

Mass Effect is already mainstream, and in fact is one of the most popular video game series within the last 10 years. At my job, there are 60 employees, I am friends with at at least 10 and interact with at least 20-30 of them on a regular basis.  I can honestly say out of the 10 of my friends, 8 have played Mass Effect.

 

But that person was making a joke/reference to Joker commenting on Cerberus.