Hollywood Interested in Mass Effect Movie

2012 Wont Happen

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I would love to see a Mass Effect movie.

Furthermore, I would like to see movies of:

Halo series

Gears of War series

Fallout 3

Assassins Creed series

No, I am not being sarcastic. All of these would be cool.
 

Doug

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RanD00M said:
No.No,no no no no no no no no no no no.NO!

We can not let this happen.Hollywood fucks EVERYTHING! up.
Agreed. Especially when it comes to turning a game into a movie. Though they aren't as bad as....

[HEADING=1]Uwe Bolle![/HEADING]
 

ElephantGuts

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It's an interesting proposal. A well-made Mass Effect movie could be the greatest gift to humanity since...the creation of life. But of course, there is an appropriate risk that if the movie turned out terrible I would be obliged to dedicate my life to finding a way to begin the apocalypse and erasing all evidence of that terrible tragedy from the universe.

Either way, I doubt Bioware will want to begin even thinking about it until after Mass Effect 3.
 

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If they are content in making this travesty maybe they could do the same with Fallout 3, Uncharted, Halo and etc. Hollywood truly has no shame and morals. Does anyone remember Street Fighter the movie, or how about the terrible Super Mario Brothers? This will keep happening as long as there is a buck to be made and gullible suckers.
 

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If the movie was directly based off the game, I think that would be awful because the player is Commander Shepard in the game,the Shepard they created is theirs, their choices are his choices, but to see a some actor take the role of Shepard would probably ruin it for all the fans as he wouldn't look like the Shepard they made or wouldn't make the same choices their Shepard made, thereby making him not Shepard to that person, ruining the movie. But if they went the same path the books did, just telling a story that takes place in the Mass Effect universe, not having Shepard directly appear, then I'd accept that, it would actually be pretty interesting.
 

Snotnarok

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After Metroid, Metal Gear, Gears of War movies ALL vanished I'm not sure that's gonna happen.
 

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Could be good

but i aint gonna get exited untill they start filming due to the amount of films that get canceld before then
 

G1eet

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Ehhh... hell no. RPG's don't work that well as movies. Come to think of it, I don't know of any RPG's that were even made into movies.

At any rate, the movie's plot could take any one of the six thousand permutations that the game lets you choose from.
 

The Bandit

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Let's all pretend for a second that this isn't going to crash and burn into nothingness in a year or two.

Actually, I don't have that big of an imagination. We will never, ever, ever see a Mass Effect movie. Ever.
 

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A CGI movie might work, there'd be no way to recreate the aliens properly otherwise. An Avatar affair with human actors and CGI background might work as well, come to think of it. But they'd need to adapt a lot to make the film fit with the story, because of all the choice and variables.
 

dreadedcandiru99

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Not only am I against this particular video game movie, I'm against all video game movies.

First of all, making movies out of video games could only be sorta-kinda justified ten or fifteen years ago, when we didn't have practically photorealistic graphics and the typical game character appeared to be made of Legos.

Secondly, most games with a story worth telling tend to do a perfectly good job telling it themselves.

Third, games are not movies; you're meant to be an active participant, not to just sit back and watch. (Insert standard cutscene-heavy-JRPG-bashing snark here.) This is especially true with games like Mass Effect. The whole fucking point is that you are Shepard, this is your story, and you have to decide how it goes. Take that away, and it's basically just another sci-fi shoot-em-up.

Lastly, video game movies suck. They all do--every single one, without exception. They always have, and they always will, because they're made by Hollywood, and Hollywood doesn't give one-tenth of a shit about the subject material. Movies are made out of video games for the same reason that movies are made out of old TV shows: because studios figure that name recognition alone will get people storming into theaters. (Sadly, they're often right.)

If you want to approximate the experience of watching a video game movie, just watch over someone else's shoulder while they play the game. Or watch a playthrough on YouTube. Either way, you'll save yourself the cost of a ticket.
 

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Now THAT would be awesome.

IF it turns out good, and that's a big 'if'. Having a star-studded cast wouldn't matter, what's important is that the script is good, the dialogue's good, and it's faithful to the story.

And traditionally, Hollywood has been wont to fuck up almost every videogame-to-movie project they've been given. I've no idea why, seeing as it provides them with a setting and plot automatically, but who knows, maybe they just didn't care.

Let's hope this turns out good.
 

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2012 Wont Happen said:
I would love to see a Mass Effect movie.

Furthermore, I would like to see movies of:

Halo series

Gears of War series

Fallout 3

Assassins Creed series

No, I am not being sarcastic. All of these would be cool.
No, they wouldn't. They are retarded suggestions for movies based on videogames. I'd rather see something within the setting of Deus Ex be turned into a movie. Halo is horrible, same with Gears of War. Fallout 3's plot was pretty bad, but fun game (with mods). Assassins Creed is just....bleh. It's not bad, but it's not that good either.