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[release]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.[/release]
:f5h::byodood:
Seriously though it's going to be awesome.
...I hope they don't do the ending where everyone lives. That'd be a cop-out.
Video game movies.
Well Mass Effect is going to be destroyed by Hollywood.
You know, at first I was apprehensive.
Then I read the article.
Now I'm fucking hyped.
Mass Effect isn't Mass Effect unless it has all the actors from the game, which I bet they ain't gonna be.
Better be fucking Paragon
:colbert:
its directed by uwe boll.
Starring Michael Cera as Joker!
:razz:
Movie tagline: "I need to go"
[QUOTE=Sparkwire;22157650]its directed by uwe boll.[/QUOTE]
Wtf? No it's not
What about the bioshock movie
[QUOTE=Foda;22157753]Movie tagline: "I need to go"[/QUOTE]
Correction: "I should go."
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[release]The producers behind The Dark Knight and Spider-Man are teaming... [/release][/QUOTE]
Isn't the producer for Spider-Man supposed to be working on the Warcraft Movie?...
I have to say, this does have some potential. But they will have to do it right.
Good, Mass Effect should have been a movie in the first place.
[QUOTE=sltungle;22157823]Correction: "I should go."[/QUOTE]
DUH DAH DUH DUN DUN DUH DUH DUH
MASS EFFECT
WHEN A HERO IS CALLED UPON, HE WILL HAVE BUT ONE QUESTION TO ASK:
"Can we talk later?"
SEE IT IN THEATERS
DUH DAH DUH DUN DUN DUH DUH DUH
DUH DUH DUH
DUH DUH DUH DUHHHHH
Shitloads of video games get picked up for movies, rarely any of them ever get finished or put into production.
I don't know if I should be exited or scared...
Female reporters need to get their snide insinuations in check!
I came.
And I read this article.
Shepard better beat the shit out of that newslady.
[QUOTE=BANNED USER;22157616]Better be fucking Paragon
:colbert:[/QUOTE]
paragon for the fail.
The movie had better start exactly like this.
Shepard flies down onto Tuchanka on a golden lion covered in diamonds, it has three heads and two of them are breathing fire. The other is breathing hookers.
He steps off of his mighty steed and walks up to the throne. Wrex is sitting there. He stands up, looks Shepard in the eye, and says "Shepard."
"Wrex."
End of movie.
10/10.
The entire movie would be conversations with short gun fights.
Mass Effect is one of few games with enough good writing and plot to have actual potential as a movie. They better not fuck this up. It'll be weird if they don't get all the same VAs, but if the people can act good regardless then it won't matter to anyone other than die-hard fans who treat change like the black plague.
Still would want Joker to be Seth Green. He looks close enough!
He'll be interrupting every alien ass. Except Tali. :smug:
What if they choose not to make it about Shepard?
I wonder what storyline path they will use?
If they use people who actually look like the ingame characters, I think it will be good.
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