Mass Effect Movie Will Have a New Storyline
Legendary Picture's Mass Effect movie will feature a male Commander Shepard and an all-new storyline.
During this year's San Diego Comic-Con convention in July, Legendary Pictures revealed that a full-blown, live-action Mass Effect movie was in the works. The studio asked for fans to tweet questions which a pre-production film panel would answer. The questions were never addressed, the convention ended, and fans didn't receive any feedback from the submittals. The company supposedly forgot to tell anyone that the answers went live on August 2, so the details are just now making their way through the news channels.
According to the studio, the Mass Effect movie will feature a completely new story that focuses on the male version of Commander Shepard. The studio added that it's working closely with BioWare, backing up a previous comment made by the film's screenwriter, Mark Protosevich (I Am Legend), who said his script would be "following and honoring the story."
Right now there's no indication that Legendary will go beyond this movie installment, claiming that the team is really focused on making this a great movie. "So we'll see where it takes us," the studio said, deflating any possible rumors of a film-based trilogy. "We have to get the first one right to know whether there will be more."
Other reports state that Seth Green, the actor who voiced the ship pilot Joker, will not by repeating his role in the upcoming movie. There's also some question about the overall plot given that Shepard's story begins with Mass Effect and ends with Mass Effect 3. Will this be an alternate timeline, or a story that resides within the game trilogy? Based on Legendary's response, the film may ignore everything that's happened in the three games.
Other reports state that Legendary has hired on Daft Punk to provide the film's soundtrack. Daft Punk previously worked on TRON: Legacy.
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I will see it on day 1 when it hits the cinemas...
I wanna see a Bioshock Movie.
Just don't let Uwe Boll anywhere near it and it should be ok.
I wanna see a Bioshock Movie.
As much as I do, there is a reason why producers chose not to do so. They found the contents in Bioshock too gruesome and gory. Still, there's something called Rated-R.
Taking bets on the actor who play's Shepard.... even though we all know it will be Sam Worthington.
Never played ME--will go see movie for Daft Punk.
totally ignoring the games story and no joker? ...so its a prequel to the game right???
totally ignoring the games story and no joker? ...so its a prequel to the game right???
Nah, it's just a rip-off from the game, no relation to story in games?!?!?!?! No movie in my opinion
Honestly I think they SHOULD ignore the story from the games. Going through multiple media outlets should not be a way to tell the same story, but rather, expand upon the universe as a whole.
I'd find it more interesting if it wasn't about Shepard. Also, it becomes more convoluted seeing as Shepard in the game was a customizable figure, despite the default look. And then, when you HAVE a default look, for any character, and voices, you run into the trouble where fans are unsettled because that's not what they saw in the game.
So instead, in my opinion, they'd have better luck working together with the writers of the game to tell a new story somewhere else in the universe, maybe a different time as well.
That's just me though.
totally ignoring the games story and no joker?
Ugh. We've been down this road before.. it was called Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within.
Gee, thanks a LOT, BioWare. Not like I cared about ME movie (games ftw), but ignoring the storyline? I can see that it needs to be done because the real storyline is changed according to the player's actions, but really... they promised before that the movie will follow ME1 storyline. Fine, let's see what they'll come up with. Me, I just want Mass Effect 3 - and less plotholes this time
while i hope that the movie will be excellent, at least there's solace in the fact that even if the movie sucks shit, the soundtrack will be good
There's plenty of room to fit a movie in the Commander Shepard timeline. What happened between ME1 and 2? There was a time gap there, I don't think he was sitting doing nothing. What were the events that got him noticed by the Spectres in the first place? Maybe an origin story. I'd be quite happy NOT watching a movie with a cut down version of a story I've played through repeatedly. Same problem as with trying to make a movie out of a book.
I'm concerned how they are going to make other species look as well as what everyone has previously stated. I have not been impressed with movie effects that follow games that include other monsters, species, etc...I also hope that if they CG the shit out of this that they do a quality job with it (e.g. Avatar)
Taking bets on the actor who play's Shepard.... even though we all know it will be Sam Worthington.
Not a chance. Kate Beckinsale will do the job.
Ignore everything from the games: welcome another totally bullshit movie
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Whats wrong with all those movie studios. Never heard "if it aint broke dont fix it"?!
I always played the female Shepard, so suspension of disbelief will be major problem for me. Seriously, FemShep is much better acted than ManShep. That, and if you have to spend 20+ hrs looking at someone's backside, it might as well be a female's ;-).
MassEffect could be the greatest SciFi of all times or it could suck donkey ballz!!! I hope they don't blow it!!! I played through MassEffect only because of the Story and I wished it were a movie.
...FemShep is much better acted than ManShep. That, and if you have to spend 20+ hrs looking at someone's backside, it might as well be a female's ;-).
my words...
Can't wait to see how they appease the sodomite (gay) community on this one.
So they'll be using the "grab-a-crappy-story-use-the-name" strategy...
Seems like I'll be passing this one, sadly. Maybe rent it someday.
Cheers!
I hate video game movies. They never make them as the game was. ME was successful because of the story so why change it? It basically is already a movie with enough plot in it, so all you need is real people and done...easiest movie ever. Damn you Super Mario Bros and Street Fighter for your crappy remakes. I've been waiting for years for a Zelda movie, but they'd probably mess that one up as well.
There's plenty of room to fit a movie in the Commander Shepard timeline. What happened between ME1 and 2? There was a time gap there, I don't think he was sitting doing nothing. What were the events that got him noticed by the Spectres in the first place? Maybe an origin story. I'd be quite happy NOT watching a movie with a cut down version of a story I've played through repeatedly. Same problem as with trying to make a movie out of a book.
Shepard was dead for two years between ME1 and ME2. That should explain the gap.
i just want me3 the game im soo hooked up i wanna play it already! tired of waiting! once i get it im missin college and work haha
Randy Orton for Commander John Shepard! Seriously. Dude looks super similar.
Could be a movie about the Skyllian Blitz, so a prequel, in other words. That could be cool. Really though, the ME Universe is so mind bogglingly vast and well woven that there could be a movie about any major conflict point and it could still be good. But I would like to see a movie about the Skyllian Blitz, or the events leading to the end of the First Contact War. I don't think Shepard was around for the FCW though.
And Daft Punk is the perfect choice for the sound track. I wanted to play ME2 after I saw Tron because of the music.
"Mass Effect Movie Will Have a New Storyline"
translation , Mass effect movie is going to suck.
so what if they are workign with bioware , the guys at running with scissors worked closely with uwe boll on the Postal , movie ,and you know what as funny as it was it still sucked.
change the story equals suckage period.
this is one thing that the resident evil movies did good in the start (they blew it on the second movie introducing game chars into thier story arch) , they didn't change the story in teh first movie , just told a different person's story in that same "world" that actually occured before the first game did . any time and every time some one changes the story going from game to movie it has always sucked either you stick to the story or get new cahracters adn tell a differnt person's story in that established world. This alone is why MS has on and off canceled Halo movie plans , they want the movie to stick to the established story not change shit around.
Honestly I think they SHOULD ignore the story from the games. Going through multiple media outlets should not be a way to tell the same story, but rather, expand upon the universe as a whole. I'd find it more interesting if it wasn't about Shepard. Also, it becomes more convoluted seeing as Shepard in the game was a customizable figure, despite the default look. And then, when you HAVE a default look, for any character, and voices, you run into the trouble where fans are unsettled because that's not what they saw in the game. So instead, in my opinion, they'd have better luck working together with the writers of the game to tell a new story somewhere else in the universe, maybe a different time as well. That's just me though.
that's what i'm talking about , though not so much ignore the story , perhaps have it occur but focus the movie on different characters durring that time period and what they were doing (liek the first resident evil movie did )
i certianly don't like the setting on sheperad because , hell not everyone played the male sheperad in their game, I my self played both sexes (once throguh as male then once througha s female) .
and as for the movie why not a female lead ???? I know just as many girl gmaers that played ME series as guy gamers so what gives ??? does bioware and the movie maker's like to cast games as a boy toys still thought we were past that age of gaming ?
MassEffect could be the greatest SciFi of all times or it could suck donkey ballz!!! I hope they don't blow it!!! I played through MassEffect only because of the Story and I wished it were a movie.
that's what i'm thinking , and the real down side of if it sucks is that holywood will take less risk with sci fi movies in the future if this one blows.
I always played the female Shepard, so suspension of disbelief will be major problem for me. Seriously, FemShep is much better acted than ManShep. That, and if you have to spend 20+ hrs looking at someone's backside, it might as well be a female's ;-).
I agree 100% the female voice actor for teh games did a MUCH better job than the male voice actor , i did play the games first time through as a male , but after my second play through using the fem shep , i just can't go back to playing the male , her voice acting was way better .
So in pre-production and they have already failed 3 times. Amazing. I expected nothing less from Hollywood and there complete disrespect of the medium, and view that gamers are just customers who will spend more on a single story. I will bet this is shot in 3-D and the aliens will be portrayed as being dependent on humans for no reason.