Mass Effect: coming to a theater near you!

[Guild McCommunist]

The producers behind The Dark Knight and Spider-Man are teaming for Mass Effect, a live-action, big screen adaptation of the Electronic Arts-BioWare videogame.

Legendary Pictures' Thomas Tull and Jon Jashni have acquired the film rights to the game and will produce the movie along with former Marvel Studios honcho Avi Arad and his son Ari Arad. BioWare co-founders Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk will serve as executive producers, as will Mass Effect executive producer Casey Hudson. Warner Bros. will distribute the film.

Furthermore, the producers are in negotiations with screenwriter Mark Protosevich (I Am Legend, Thor) about penning the script. The Mass Effect movie is in the nascent stages of development.

"Mass Effect is a tremendous property ripe for translation to the big screen," said Thomas Tull, Chairman and CEO of Legendary Pictures, in a statement. "Mass Effect is a prime example of the kind of source material we at Legendary like to develop; it has depth, compelling characters and an engaging back story. This coupled with Avi and Ari producing and the skills of a great team adapting the screenplay, are the start of turning this smash videogame based property into a successful feature film."

"We are thrilled to be working with Legendary," said producer Avi Arad. "EA and BioWare are terrific partners who have created a brilliant piece of fiction with a universe filled with amazing aliens and technology. More importantly, though, they created a parable whose conflicts mirror the ones we currently face in our own world. This story emphasizes the need for all cultures to learn to work together. All this magic is presented in a fast paced action-adventure that makes for the best kind of movie experience."

"At BioWare, we've always thought of Mass Effect as having the depth, emotion and plot twists perfectly suited for an adaptation to a motion picture," said Casey Hudson. "With Legendary and Avi and Ari Arad attached, we believe that the Mass Effect movie will be an extraordinary entertainment event that realizes our vision for the franchise and thrills fans."

BioWare's epic science fiction series takes place in the year 2183 and follows Commander Shepard of the SS Normandy who leads a team on a mission to defeat an ancient alien race that invades the galaxy every 50,000 years, wiping out all organic life. The most recent game in the series, Mass Effect 2, was released in January of 2010.

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One can only hope they do this as well as the games. I love Mass Effect's galaxy and storylines.

 

[Jolan]

UUUUUUHOOOH.
I think I just nerdgasmed.

 

[Blaze163]

What incredibly fortuitous timing, I finished Mass Effect 2 not two hours ago. Unfortunately I made the mistake of letting Zaeed take control of the fire team so Tali took a grenade to the face (especially painful considering I was planning on nailing her after the credits) so I'm gonna have to play through the entire thing again to set up my Mass Effect 3 save.

Here's hoping that Uwe Boll is kept at least a billion miles away from this. Then shot, stabbed, poisoned, hung, drawn, quartered, castrated with a rusty bread knife and thrown in the moat.

 

[B-Blue]

I meh'd.

 

[Joe88]

wonder how bad they are going to screw up the movie

/looks at every other game to movie

 

[Guild McCommunist]

wonder how bad they are going to screw up the movie

/looks at ever other game to movie

Most other games to movies are just shitty games to adapt. Like is there any plot to goddamn Street Fighter?

Not to mention it's got a decent looking team behind this one and Mass Effect was already a rich storytelling game.

...But, in all reality, I'd rather just prefer a Mass Effect 3 with fucking a bagillion hours of cutscenes like Metal Gear Solid 4 and call that a "movie". I just want goddamn Mass Effect 3.

 

[Jolan]

I also pray that they don't have the Romance subplot, because that would definitely turn off a lot of people.

 

[shakirmoledina]

it should show how the game is played rather than something sidelined... it would make the game very famous just like i think Forgotten sands will to the series (though in PoP case, the game is going to sell the movie)

 

[Law]

What incredibly fortuitous timing, I finished Mass Effect 2 not two hours ago. Unfortunately I made the mistake of letting Zaeed take control of the fire team so Tali took a grenade to the face (especially painful considering I was planning on nailing her after the credits) so I'm gonna have to play through the entire thing again to set up my Mass Effect 3 save.

Here's hoping that Uwe Boll is kept at least a billion miles away from this. Then shot, stabbed, poisoned, hung, drawn, quartered, castrated with a rusty bread knife and thrown in the moat.

Wouldn't it be better if he was castrated with a rusty bread knife first? You know, just in case those other things kill him before they get around to the castration.