OLDBOY Screenwriter Mark Protosevitch On The Challenge Of Writing MASS EFFECT

@Jazza815, as long as they don't land on the Syfy channel it could work. If AMC, HBO, or, Showtime could adapt the mini series it could work out famously...

Dead Space was made for film.
Totally could be as cool and creepy as the original Alien film if done right.

We need some good sci-fi horror.

Pandorum had the right idea, but then went in different direction and actually had a really smart story... thye introduced the mutated/evolved humans as a suspenseful horror element and then let it fall flat. By the end, they seemed more like a plot device for pacing when the story behind their condition was very cool.

A TV series would be a better fit for something like Mass Effect, but a movie could work, if you get the right people.

I say get Drew Goddard to Direct and possibly help with the script as well.

The biggest problem, besides the aforementioned difficulty of fitting in all those hours into a film, is that each player essentially wrote their own version when making their choices.
It's not like adapting a comic, where a few minor changes aside, it's still pretty much recognisable.

I mean, i still have a hard time looking at promotional shots from the games because i don't recognise the bald space marine they're calling Shepard!

If done right, Mass Effect would be THE greatest SciFi movie ever! No ifs ands or buts about it! Damn I love me some Mass Effect and some Shepard!!!!! an Wrex, and Garrus, and the rest... Including my love Liara!

And jack, and ohhh holy hell, every character has a killer backstory.

Trying to adapt one of the plots of the games would not work as a movie. Now trying something completely new that exists besides the game, I think that's the better approach for a movie.

@willyburz
No he doesn't. You just see the abdomen portion of the N7 armor rise as Shepard draws in a breath.

Anyways, I'd probably go see it anyway, even if I knew it would be crap. I've been living and breathing Mass Effect since the second game came out - it's the reason I got an Xbox 360. But I'm sure it'll be bad. There's so much they would have to leave out, and they wouldn't just snip it from the story - they'd likely change the story around, which would be even worse.

It could be as bad as the Last Airbender, but I'd probably still see it.

If they do end up adapting the story of the games, they're gonna have to change the ending by the time they get around to the third one, given how illogical and stupid it is.

If you want to adapt the game, then it should be a series. If you want to do something based on the game in the Mass Effect universe, then you are easily able to do a movie.

I say stay away from Shepeard because fans have their own version of the character.

@DudeGuyMan I like that idea...but sort of in reverse.

I'm thinking that having Mass Effect 1&2 should be the TV series, and then Mass Effect 3 be the movie (or movies).

They could split each game into two movies: have one hit in the spring and the other in the fall. Personally, I'd be super bold and make three movies out of each and have them released in the spring, summer and fall... but I'm a maniac and don't have the burdens of running a studio and their finances to rein in my desires.

My perfect world scenario is not only do you film each as two-three movies, but you have both a male and female Shep version where they make different choices. They'd shoot simultaneously with the same cast, so just the leads would switch out. This could mean a lot of the same scenes with secondary characters could be reused, same for effects shots. Shepards could have different origins and specialties, and one would save Kaiden and the other Ash. It would be a really bold endeavor to try to film... which is why the studio would never do it. This is why I buy lottery tickets when they're over 300 million. If I won, my first step would be contacting the producing company and Bioware and tell them I'll significantly fund an expanded version of what they're doing (in exchange for some kind of revenue sharing of course).

Oh tainted...hes alive.

I always pick Synthesis. I'm a pussy, I guess, but I can't bring myself to kill EDI.

A television show might not be a bad idea, but I'd be worried about what the krogan would look like. Even then, it'd still be better than completely eliminating the quarians like they had said they would do.

@Tainted87: Synthesis, eh? I don't know of many people who pick that.

It's Destroy, for me. I always look at it this way.
Saren = fusion, synthesis of a new breed. But it's not real..it's stagnation, it's the complete loss of choice.

Illusive Man = control, or the illusion of it. Controlling the reapers is not possible and will lead to oblivion.

@GT22 I always pick destroy, because I believe in the end, they can always rebuild EDI and the Geth, and since Destroy is the one ending where you don't die, It seems a bit easy to pick.