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Turning "Mass Effect" into a movie, or at least trying to do so, is pretty much a no-brainer.
Even those who didn't love it would have to admit that it has a lot more meat to its narrative
than most games. You've got a hard-ass protagonist, a crusty bureaucracy trying to hold him
back, a motley supporting cast, a hugely diverse (if a bit similar looking) bunch of settings,
and an alien invasion fueled by technology that nobody but our hero fully understands.
Those are certainly a lot of standard elements for a science-fiction movie. Though "Mass
Effect, rather intriguingly, has a main character whose look and personality and even gender
can, to some extent, be shaped by the player. So the makers of a movie will have to figure out
just who exactly Commander Shephard is.
Arad was for a long time the head of Marvel's movie business, where he helped start the new
wave of actually good comic book movie franchises like "X-Men," "Spider-Man," and "Iron
Man" (OK, there was "Spider-Man 3" and "Elektra" and "Ghost Rider," but there's still no
denying Marvel movies are much improved). Now he runs his own production company and
has been getting into videogame adaptations, starting recently with "Lost Planet."
Both EA and Arad declined to comment, but it's a good bet that Avi is right now trying to put
together the elements to get a movie going, including a writer, director, and most importantly,
setting it up at a studio. When and if that happens, we'll have a lot more insight into just what
kind of a movie "Mass Effect" might be.
Even those who didn't love it would have to admit that it has a lot more meat to its narrative
than most games. You've got a hard-ass protagonist, a crusty bureaucracy trying to hold him
back, a motley supporting cast, a hugely diverse (if a bit similar looking) bunch of settings,
and an alien invasion fueled by technology that nobody but our hero fully understands.
Those are certainly a lot of standard elements for a science-fiction movie. Though "Mass
Effect, rather intriguingly, has a main character whose look and personality and even gender
can, to some extent, be shaped by the player. So the makers of a movie will have to figure out
just who exactly Commander Shephard is.
Arad was for a long time the head of Marvel's movie business, where he helped start the new
wave of actually good comic book movie franchises like "X-Men," "Spider-Man," and "Iron
Man" (OK, there was "Spider-Man 3" and "Elektra" and "Ghost Rider," but there's still no
denying Marvel movies are much improved). Now he runs his own production company and
has been getting into videogame adaptations, starting recently with "Lost Planet."
Both EA and Arad declined to comment, but it's a good bet that Avi is right now trying to put
together the elements to get a movie going, including a writer, director, and most importantly,
setting it up at a studio. When and if that happens, we'll have a lot more insight into just what
kind of a movie "Mass Effect" might be.
Variety
"Mass Effect" has started its journey to the big
screen. Numerous sources have confirmed
that producer Avi Arad has optioned the rights
to Bioware's sci-fi RPG from the developer's
parent publisher Electronic Arts.
"Mass Effect" has started its journey to the big
screen. Numerous sources have confirmed
that producer Avi Arad has optioned the rights
to Bioware's sci-fi RPG from the developer's
parent publisher Electronic Arts.
Mass Effect to movie in the works