5:54 pm - 10/26/2012
Legendary Pictures has a slate of ambitious action features headed to theaters in the coming year, from Zack Snyder's Superman pic Man of Steel to Guillermo del Toro's giant robot adventure Pacific Rim and the 300 sequel 300: Rise of the Empire. But they've struggled to crack the code on how to adapt the wildly popular videogame Mass Effect into a promising project.
The production company first snagged the movie rights to the game back in 2008, and shortly thereafter picked Mark Protosevich, who contributed to the screenplay for I Am Legend and Thor, to script their adaptation. However, a new report seems to suggest Legendary is starting from scratch once more. Variety reports assistant editor turned screenwriter Morgan Davis Foehl has been selected to take on the tricky task of translating the role-playing third person shooter game into a cohesive and exciting sci-fi action adventure.
Foehl is an up-and-comer with two scripts in development, an adaptation of the comic book Crosshair over at Summit, and a curiously titled sci-fi script titled Alien Sleeper Cell with producers Bill Block and Adrian Askarieh. He also made the illustrious Black List in 2009 with Whatever Gets You Through The Night, which follows the son of a long-time mob lawyer who must choose between prison or teaming up with man who murdered his mother. To date, none of Foehl's screenplays have been produced, but besides being a confessed Mass Effect fan, the spec scripts he has penned are said to have a strong espionage bent that should prove useful in this project.
Each version of the Mass Effect has been a bestseller, which suggests this project would have a massive marketability right out the gate. However, fans of the franchise wonder how the game—the direction of which is shaped largely by its user—will translate into a film. Set in the future, the first game followed a human space commander, leading a team of soldiers seeking to squash a vicious force of mechanized aliens that descend and destroy every 50,000 years like merciless, metal cicadas. However, there are no details on what Foehl has in mind for his adaptation.
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Since this is being start from scratch (again), they better have Fem!Shepard but then again this is Hollywood so that is probably asking for too much
Mass Effect Movie Adaptation Gets New Screenwriter
The production company first snagged the movie rights to the game back in 2008, and shortly thereafter picked Mark Protosevich, who contributed to the screenplay for I Am Legend and Thor, to script their adaptation. However, a new report seems to suggest Legendary is starting from scratch once more. Variety reports assistant editor turned screenwriter Morgan Davis Foehl has been selected to take on the tricky task of translating the role-playing third person shooter game into a cohesive and exciting sci-fi action adventure.
Foehl is an up-and-comer with two scripts in development, an adaptation of the comic book Crosshair over at Summit, and a curiously titled sci-fi script titled Alien Sleeper Cell with producers Bill Block and Adrian Askarieh. He also made the illustrious Black List in 2009 with Whatever Gets You Through The Night, which follows the son of a long-time mob lawyer who must choose between prison or teaming up with man who murdered his mother. To date, none of Foehl's screenplays have been produced, but besides being a confessed Mass Effect fan, the spec scripts he has penned are said to have a strong espionage bent that should prove useful in this project.
Each version of the Mass Effect has been a bestseller, which suggests this project would have a massive marketability right out the gate. However, fans of the franchise wonder how the game—the direction of which is shaped largely by its user—will translate into a film. Set in the future, the first game followed a human space commander, leading a team of soldiers seeking to squash a vicious force of mechanized aliens that descend and destroy every 50,000 years like merciless, metal cicadas. However, there are no details on what Foehl has in mind for his adaptation.
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Since this is being start from scratch (again), they better have Fem!Shepard but then again this is Hollywood so that is probably asking for too much
Also, I selected human noble warrior solely so I could romance the shit out of Alistair and have it stick. My first playthrough was a Dalish elf, and I didn't know that he'd dump me... and it ENRAGED ME.
Edited at 2012-10-26 10:10 pm (UTC)
I'm actually going to have Zevran in my party this time around. First playthrough was Alistair (tank), me (rogue), Morrigan (pewpew), and Wynee.
This time the same, but Zevran for Morrigan since I'm a 2H warrior.
So, maybe he'll seduce me away from Alistair.. we'll see.
But then I didn't take Morrigan's deal and then let Alistair come with me for the last battle. So. Yeah... yeah.
at the end i had to choose between on of us dying or letting morrigan have his demon baby so i just refused to finish the game bcos i couldn't deal with those choices :(
DA:O is one of my favorite games. It's SO good. I'm jonesing for another playthrough myself.
I wouldn't mind a movie set in the Mass Effect universe, but an adaptation of the video game (Shepard will undoubtedly be Paragon, straight, white, and male, of course) is just... no.
No.
Fem!Shepard would be cool
But since Ripley Hollywood had pretty much a non-female action hero policy
Can this movie just be about Tali
ME 2 is a lot easier to play, and if you're doing so on a computer, the controls are not so bad. The FPS can be very minimal, especially if you play as a non-sniping Engineer, Adept, or Vanguard. Vanguard can take the most getting used to, but if you don't want to shoot, it's the best choice. Just charge and shotgun people in the face/melee.
magicbiotic people left and right. takedowns are super fucking easy, especially on the easier levelsromance kinda sucks in me1 tho - you've only got two options for each gender
me2 is LIGHT years better than me1 in every aspect. i would almost suggest you download genesis for me2 and just skip me1, but there's quite a bit of side missions not covered by genesis whose outcomes carry over to me2/3. the mass effect wiki is a great source for figuring out which to bother with or not.
Accept the sign that it doesn't need to be a film, damn.
theirs is the only romance I would want to see in a ME movie tbh
I'm still kind of sad I couldn't get Vega
Fucking Kaiden though...
To have Shep as the main character in general is going to be tricky, since it's a different character for everyone. idk how to think about this.
Something like the current web series for Halo (which is way better than I expected, omg I squeed so much) for the Mass Effect universe would be cool.
Edited at 2012-10-26 10:33 pm (UTC)
And last I heard, Matthew Fox was attached to play Shepard so this whole project can go fuck its own face.