Mass Effect movie deal done

[colmquinn]

Mass Effect movie deal done
RPG snapped up by 300 studio

Role-playing game Mass Effect is set to make a big-screen appearance.

Legendary Pictures - the company behind the latest Batman movies, 300, Watchmen and Where the Wild Things Are - has acquired the film development rights to the BioWare game series.

Fans of the game like to talk up Mass Effect's exploration of themes and issues such as imperialism, individualism and man vs machine - worries us all that one - so should provide a wealth of plot for scripter Mark Protosevich - he adapted Richard Matheson's I Am Legend onto the silver screen to get his teeth into.

Or it might just be a load of explosions and CGI.

Either way, Legendary hasn't yet pencilled in a release date for the movie, but with plenty of titles queued up for the next couple of years - including another Batman outing, Godzilla and the Warcraft movie - it may some way away.

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[Sionnach Glic]

Oh god, not another game-to-movie adaption. It'll suck. Hard.

[stitch626]

It might not. If they use an originalish story within the Mass Effect universe (instead of copying the game) it could be good.

[Laughing Man]

So far they do novels and comics, as long as it's Mass Effect Universe and not just a remake of ME1, i think they might be on yo something.

[Tyyr]

I wanna be so excited about this but:

so should provide a wealth of plot for scripter Mark Protosevich - he adapted Richard Matheson's I Am Legend

Ah, the movie where they sucked out all the depth and intelligence for an action movie. Great.

[Sionnach Glic]

In fairness, the first half of IAL was pretty good.

It was once that woman and her kid turned up that it started going downhil fast. And don't get me started on the bloody ending.

[Mark]

I actually rolled my eyes and gritted my teeth when I saw that they were making this movie!