Hello, it's me RatRace123, and as I occasionally do, I'm here to present you with some movie adaptation news filtered through much fanboy rage and bias.
Found this little tidbit of info:
http://kotaku.com/5842345/there-will-be-no-female-shepard-seth-green-or-video-game-stories-in-the-mass-effect-movie
Apparently, the Mass Effect movie will indeed star a Male Shepard, will feature an original story rather than adapting the plotline from the game; and perhaps most distressing of all, will not feature Seth Green as Joker. From what I gather, Joker will be in the film, but not played by Green.
This, for some reason, really pisses me off. Maybe it's just that the idea of a Mass Effect movie isn't something I'm too into anyway, but this casting decision just feels kinda wrong.
Is it because he doesn't look the part?
Yeah, totally don't see any resemblance there.
I know that a Mass Effect movie will probably end up doing, at least moderately well regardless of critical opinion...
But, word of mouth hype, especially for an adaption of a fan favored property, goes along way towards determining the overall success of the film.
It's still early in pre-production but they need to do something that will please the fanbase. Even if it's not entirely necessary. I can best equate it to casting Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime in the Transformers movies.
Did they need to do that? No, and they seemed to be able to recast all the other Autobots just fine, but throwing the fandom a bone like that definitely earned the film a lot of positive buzz.
The exact same kind of buzz that a potentially high profile project like Mass Effect needs.
It's already got a lot of things working against it:
-It's a game adaptation, which never rise beyond the level of "eh, 'salright."
-It stars Commander Shepard (The customizable player character in an open ended game) rather than working off of other ideas in the shared universe (of which there could potentially be an infinite amount)
-Specifically it stars Male Commander Shepard, which risks further alienating the 40 or so percent of the fanbase that prefers Femshep.
-And now, we know that Seth Green won't be reprising his role.
Like I said, it's still early, but there's not much here that looks all that appealing. They need some positive hype out there, and the easiest way to do that IMO, is in the casting.
I may be overreacting, in fact I am, and I'm nowhere near as pissed as my ranting may lead you to believe, but the whole situation still rubs me the wrong way.
Joker's a fairly important character and is one of the few characters who could realistically be portrayed in film by his voice actor, and to have him not just seems like a stupid desicion.
Any thoughts on this? Discuss.
Edit: The statistic for FemShep players is actually closer to 20%, but no one can deny that they aren't a damn dedicated 20%. My argument still stands, but this was a problem they knew they were going to have to face when they decided to use Shepard as the film's protagonist. Shepard's gender doesn't actually bother me, the inclusion of Shepard as the main character kind of does, but my rant is really more about the casting issue. If they must make it a story about Shepard, with Shepard's crew, at least have the correct casting.
Found this little tidbit of info:
http://kotaku.com/5842345/there-will-be-no-female-shepard-seth-green-or-video-game-stories-in-the-mass-effect-movie
Apparently, the Mass Effect movie will indeed star a Male Shepard, will feature an original story rather than adapting the plotline from the game; and perhaps most distressing of all, will not feature Seth Green as Joker. From what I gather, Joker will be in the film, but not played by Green.
This, for some reason, really pisses me off. Maybe it's just that the idea of a Mass Effect movie isn't something I'm too into anyway, but this casting decision just feels kinda wrong.
Is it because he doesn't look the part?
Yeah, totally don't see any resemblance there.
I know that a Mass Effect movie will probably end up doing, at least moderately well regardless of critical opinion...
But, word of mouth hype, especially for an adaption of a fan favored property, goes along way towards determining the overall success of the film.
It's still early in pre-production but they need to do something that will please the fanbase. Even if it's not entirely necessary. I can best equate it to casting Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime in the Transformers movies.
Did they need to do that? No, and they seemed to be able to recast all the other Autobots just fine, but throwing the fandom a bone like that definitely earned the film a lot of positive buzz.
The exact same kind of buzz that a potentially high profile project like Mass Effect needs.
It's already got a lot of things working against it:
-It's a game adaptation, which never rise beyond the level of "eh, 'salright."
-It stars Commander Shepard (The customizable player character in an open ended game) rather than working off of other ideas in the shared universe (of which there could potentially be an infinite amount)
-Specifically it stars Male Commander Shepard, which risks further alienating the 40 or so percent of the fanbase that prefers Femshep.
-And now, we know that Seth Green won't be reprising his role.
Like I said, it's still early, but there's not much here that looks all that appealing. They need some positive hype out there, and the easiest way to do that IMO, is in the casting.
I may be overreacting, in fact I am, and I'm nowhere near as pissed as my ranting may lead you to believe, but the whole situation still rubs me the wrong way.
Joker's a fairly important character and is one of the few characters who could realistically be portrayed in film by his voice actor, and to have him not just seems like a stupid desicion.
Any thoughts on this? Discuss.
Edit: The statistic for FemShep players is actually closer to 20%, but no one can deny that they aren't a damn dedicated 20%. My argument still stands, but this was a problem they knew they were going to have to face when they decided to use Shepard as the film's protagonist. Shepard's gender doesn't actually bother me, the inclusion of Shepard as the main character kind of does, but my rant is really more about the casting issue. If they must make it a story about Shepard, with Shepard's crew, at least have the correct casting.
