Hollywood Interested in Mass Effect Movie

[sgtshock]

This shows you that 90% of the time Hollywood only cares about video games because they already have an established story and fan base. If Hollywood even gave two shits about Mass Effect's story, they would realize that a movie would just be a remake of Star Trek.

 

[Rickyvantof]

ME will never translate well into a movie.
The charm of the game is that you, the player, make all the decisions, gameplay- (which is redundant in a movie, i know) character- and story-wise. A movie wouldn't have that.
The movie will just look like some sort of Star Trek rip-off.

 

[Kandon Arc]

Why do people assume that this movie (if made) will concern Shepard? I think the best idea is to set it somewhere else in the ME universe so that it can stand on it's own, and bring something new for both newcomers and people who played the game. I think if Bioware do try to get a film made they'll go this route because 1) they love all the universes they create and try to expand them as much as possible, and 2) they presumably already consider the ME to be a complete story, so I'm not sure they'd want someone else to rewrite it.

This as also a much safer route for the gamers because if it does turn out crap, it will at least not detract from the games themselves (and it won't piss off the legion of FemSheps who would have hated the inevitable casting of a male Shepard).

 

[Rickyvantof]

Why do people assume that this movie (if made) will concern Shepard? I think the best idea is to set it somewhere else in the ME universe so that it can stand on it's own, and bring something new for both newcomers and people who played the game. I think if Bioware do try to get a film made they'll go this route because 1) they love all the universes they create and try to expand them as much as possible, and 2) they presumably already consider the ME to be a complete story, so I'm not sure they'd want someone else to rewrite it.

This as also a much safer route for the gamers because if it does turn out crap, it will at least not detract from the games themselves (and it won't piss off the legion of FemSheps who would have hated the inevitable casting of a male Shepard).

It will still be a Star Trek/Wars ripoff.

 

[Deathman101]

If they took a completely different approach on the movie, as in, NOTHING from the game's storyline makes it into the game. I don't want to see them try to confine a rehash of the game into 2 hours of movie.

 

[MrSnugglesworth]

I'm feeling really REALLY good atm, so I'm going to give Hollywood a millionth or so second chance and say "It could be good"


That said, I won't be getting Mass Effect 2. The 1st one was a resounding Meh. (Bioware is still good though)

 

[Brnin8]

Bollywood is the only one capable of making a decent Mass Effect movie.

That stirred up a REALLY disturbing image in my head of a duet between Shepard and the love interest...

 

[hyperdrachen]

This is just stupid, any movie that comes from a studios desire to cash in is gonna blow chunks.(See Transformers) Mass Effect has not been around long enough, nor developed enough yet to attract the genuine affection of a movie writer/director combo. I also have to second previous comments that if your drawing faithfully from the game series you hollow the main character out alot, cause Shepard is just a shell. I guess you could base it in the Mass Effect universe, essentially aside from Shepard, but that takes me back to my initial problem. Honestly I think a movie adaptation of KoTOR has more potential, HK-47 could almost carry the whole movie home, and then blast the meatbags when he gets there.

 

[Undercover]

Just further proof that Hollywood is completely out of ideas.

 

[T3h Merc]

NO

Remember the Doom movie friends...

 

[SomeBritishDude]

It's not about Hollywood. I don't have anything agaist Hollywood other than it's monstrously ultra-liberal ego.

Yeah, I'm European. Over here we kind of think Hollywood is kinda conservative and american TV is outright fascist. Your mileage may vary, though.

Uncharted wouldn't work, because it would be to derivative of movies like Indiana Jones or National Treasure (wich it is very much structured after). It works as a game because you're playing it, you're experiencing all these epic set pieces, but turn it into a movie and the whole interaction is gone.

And like you said; it's already very much a movie. So why make a movie out of it?

Well, you'd want to make a movie out of it to make money. Uncharted sold around what? Two million copies? Any summer blockbuster would add that much money on top of what they already have.

As for what it would become, I don't see your point. Either the characters are good and the story is interesting or it isn't. If the story of such a story-driven game is not good, then the game is not good. And Uncharted IS good.

What people seem to miss is that Indiana Jones was a kinda derivative action hero to begin with. If Indy 4 proved something is that it's not the hat and the artifacts that make a good action film, it's the story, the acting and the visual storytelling, just like in any other genre.

It feels to me that people are just regurgitating common knowledge here, rather than looking at things with any kind of depth.

But don't you see what your saying?

IF Uncharted is a good story it's own right, what can a movie version of it bring to the table? Even if the movie worked well and was a very good adaption it still wouldn't hold a candle to the game. Why? Because we've already experienced it all before, just on a more personaly, interactive and emersive level. It'd be a pointless edition.

This is not the same as say a book to movie adaption. Books are a very, very different medium of telling storys. Some things that work in books don't work in films and visa versa, so your getting a very different experience. With games and movies on the other hand in both instances your getting a visual story. The only difference is that in one you have control of how that visual story plays out (whether it be the do you succeed or do you fail of most games, or whether you actually affect the story though decisions). Therefore, all your doing with a movie is playing the same experience without that, assuming it's a faithful adpation, so it's just not going to have the same effect on you.

Would Shadow of the Collossus be as emotional if it was a 2 hour anima? Would you care as much about what happens in Prince of Persia if your just a viewer rather than a participant? If Mass Effect was just a non interactive cut scene would you give a damn?

Anyway, personally I don't think Mass Effect is a good enough story to work on it's own without interactivity (BLASPHERMY!) so the Star Trek nock off feeling would be overwhelmingly more apparent.

 

[Casual Shinji]

It's not about Hollywood. I don't have anything agaist Hollywood other than it's monstrously ultra-liberal ego.

Yeah, I'm European. Over here we kind of think Hollywood is kinda conservative and american TV is outright fascist. Your mileage may vary, though.

Uncharted wouldn't work, because it would be to derivative of movies like Indiana Jones or National Treasure (wich it is very much structured after). It works as a game because you're playing it, you're experiencing all these epic set pieces, but turn it into a movie and the whole interaction is gone.

And like you said; it's already very much a movie. So why make a movie out of it?

Well, you'd want to make a movie out of it to make money. Uncharted sold around what? Two million copies? Any summer blockbuster would add that much money on top of what they already have.

As for what it would become, I don't see your point. Either the characters are good and the story is interesting or it isn't. If the story of such a story-driven game is not good, then the game is not good. And Uncharted IS good.

What people seem to miss is that Indiana Jones was a kinda derivative action hero to begin with. If Indy 4 proved something is that it's not the hat and the artifacts that make a good action film, it's the story, the acting and the visual storytelling, just like in any other genre.

It feels to me that people are just regurgitating common knowledge here, rather than looking at things with any kind of depth.

I'm not talking about FOX news. I mean the big name Hollywood actors like Sean Penn and George Clooney who never seem to shut up about save this, save that, don't smoke, drive hybrids. And maybe you missed a little movie called, Avatar.

And interms of what an Uncharted movie would become. If they would make a movie, they'd probably take one of the 2 games as a story.
So we'd basically get a rehashed story of either Drake's Fortune or Among Thieves without any of the epic gameplay.

Uncharted is more than good enough as a game. Making a movie out of it wouldn't contribute anything to the lore or the experience of the game other than making money.

 

[Raven's Nest]

Ooh... The likeliness of this being bad is high...

But the possibillity of it being awesome is fucking sweet.

Please for the love of god, let Ridley Scott or James Cameron to make it. I don't care how long it takes just make it good...

 

[fezzthemonk]

If they do make a movie, will there be a Mass Effect: The Movie: The Game, or would that cause a dimentional paradox that would end the world?

 

[(whitty name here)]

Yeah and the movie can be just as 'good' as the other video game movies.
Fuck off Hollywood. Leave something thats working alone.

 

[Blatherscythe]

Another shitty hollywood movie based on a game. This could fuck up Mass Effect as a game franchise, luckily the staff at Bioware aren't a bunch of sellouts. EA on the other hand...

 

[Insideout Ink Demon]

Why ruin the franchise?

 

[BloodyThoughts]

let me sum it up this way,


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