Bah! I hope it fails. Not out of any kind of mean spiritedness, but simply because gaming needs to be more than Hollywood's *****. Seems like every new game of the last 3 years has got a film adaption in the works. Hell, publishers have been selling the film rights for many games before they've even been bloody released. It's as if all games are good for is providing the movie industry with ideas to rape adapt.
What really bothers me about this is Bioware's sycophantic attitude to all this. "Blah blah this movie adaption is the next logical step for the franchise, blah blah, we look forward to taking the series into new territory, blah blah". No Bioware, you simply got paid a shit-ton of money to allow Hollywood to take one of your games and bastardize it. The fact that Bioware are helping make the goddamned thing is even worse. Bioware, you are game developers, emphasis on the game part. Instead of getting involved in an industry none of you are trained for, how about you just stay focused on games. Like Valve. Good, sweet Valve...
I'm just looking forward to the inevitable franchise milking that's going to take place. "Yeah, I know we said we envisioned Mass Effect as a trilogy... but look at all this money!"