I’ve been a little curious about the Mass Effect movie but not too much. I havent ever really been interested in the games, and I have serious apprehensions about every videogame to film adaptation in existence. Either way, the fine folks at Legendary have a plan.
Source: Dark Horizons
Amongst the new information gathered is that the film will be a completely new story, not tied to the previous two games or the upcoming third one. Asked if the film is the first in a possible trilogy, the response was “We are really focused on making this a great movie, so we’ll see where it takes us. We have to get the first one right to know whether there will be more.”
Legendary is working closely with BioWare on the development of this project and they can’t give any hints about the casting other than confirming that actor Seth Green will not be playing Joker, the pilot character he voices in the game.
Only thing that could possible capture my confidence with this movie is if Paul W.S. Anderson is directing. This guy puts out a succesful Video Game movie every other year and shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon. I like that they plan to be original as purists and console gaming fans would probably want their heads on a frag stick for simply changing a name, let alone actually doing something unique. And since they are doing something unique, why bother with the Mass Effect license at all? Too many questions for now but hopefully this will be cleared up a bit sooner than the long in gestation Gears of War movie.
