Mass Effect.. the movie?

[Ferbian]

So I've been thinking about this for a few days, seeing the online cinematic trailers of Mass Effect 2, if you ask me the cinematic trailers look absolutely incredible, and it made me think, would a Mass Effect the movie sell? would it be worth watching, I mean there's been games made into movies before, like Hitman, personally I think all thou that Hitman the movie dropped all credibility of the gaming series, because of the mistakes compared to the gaming plot that was made.

As mentioned above, Hitman failed to me, which makes me fear a little bit that it's gonna be another success for the Hollywood world to flunk on another otherwise incredibly awesome gaming serie.
but then again, there's a few things that are acceptable if the movie is made good enough, if the screenplay, the looks of it is feeling right and feeling awesome, which is technology there's available to us as of late, considering success of Avatar and it's amazing graphics (in my opinion, if you didn't like the graphics.. yeah well.. too bad)

So what do you think? would Mass Effect.. the movie.. be something you'd watch?
Would it be a success because of the games success? or would a movie drop the credibility of the games because Hollywood screwed up?

 

[Mr. Steve]

Don't know. It'd be way too complicated to translate on screen. Remember that Mass Effect is based on decisions. Way too many storylines branch out, and there would be some massive revising in the entire canon to establish what can be shown on seen (paragon/renegade ending, the romance sidequests, planets being explored, even Shepard's gender).

For me, It won't really matter if the technology is the most powerful HD vision ever and it makes Avatar look like a newschannel graphic. Thing is, people will be lost in the shuffle, and the gamers that will be looking forward to it will just be thinking "I didn't play it like this, like that, etc." and wind up with not being able to experience the movie as a standalone moment that will be set apart from the games.

Then again, if the writing really transfers what Mass Effect is about as a game, and what makes it stand out as a role-playing game, I might be inclined to watch it.

 

[J-Dogg]

Well im a huge fan of the series so far, Mass Effect 1 was a good game and Mass Effect 2 is an awesome game, just adapting it to be a film has its issues, as Steve said the game is about decisions. For me being a now diehard fan, it could work in a way that its written to suit both the good and bad decisions the player makes with the game then put it in the movie, but then peoples experiences from the game won't reflect their experience when watching the movie.

And also imagine if some people haven't played the game or know the series and see the film Mass Effect advertised go see it with out knowing anything to what its actually about. The game's universe, the characters, the races, weapons and all those things, for the people who have payed the games they will be familiar with all that, but then what about the people who aren't they are going to be confused as hell.

So really there are positives and negatives of making the Mass Effect series into a film.

 

[Ferbian]

Yeah okay I see your point guys, it might be hard to work into a movie with the choices, didn't really think about that when I wrote this thread.

But as I used Hitman as an examble, where they took a situation that a proper Hitman fan would obviously know wasn't in any of the films, then take a situation for the Mass Effect movie, something we're never going to, or just haven't, encountered yet, but then as stated above, it's still gonna be hard fitting in the choices and everything, I don't know, there's just something about a Mass Effect movie that really speaks to me, perhaps it's the thing that I quite honestly just want Yvonne Strahovski to star in it and Jason Statham as Shepard (because by the trailer looks, as in the default look, he just fits perfectly, and because it's the perfect way to make up for the fact that they choose the most crappy person of all time to play Hitman, that role was fit for Statham!)

But then again, something tells me the movie director of the film (if ever made) would find some way to work it quite nicely, either that or cooporate with Bioware and have them figure out a way to do it, they've obviously been quite successful in the past, so something tells me making Mass Effect into the movie wouldn't be the biggest challenge for them.

But I guess time will show, it's not uncommon for a successful game to be made into a movie afterall

 

[J-Dogg]

The director and all those people should work with BioWare on the movie, much better to work with the game creators. Also if i was to pick the actors for the roles i'd have Yvonne Strahvoski as Miranda of course, Seth Green as Joker, and pretty much the voice actors who voiced the main characters as the actors playing their characters. But for Shepard i would go with either Jason Statham or someone else.

 

[Ferbian]

Yeah the actors would pretty much fit very well with being the ones that put voice to the characters, mainly the humans all thou (ofcourse.. cause it's a little hard having a the guy playing Grunt in ME2 actually being featured properly.. unless they costume the guy, but I think it's just gonna be like avatar, a mix of computermade and real people)

But yeah, Yvonne as miranda, seth as joker, Martin Sheen would fit just fine as the illusive man too cause they look very alike, afterall he did voice him too.
But I really think Jason Statham would fit best into the shepard role if you keep the default looks, cause.. yeah.. lets admit it he's probably the closest I could name looking like shepard, and being able to carry out the role properly, unless we bring in bruce willis, but he's getting a little old for the role perhaps.

 

[Lee]

Why bother? As pointed earlier the main thing about mass effect is it is based on your decisions.

Hitman was a SHIT movie, just like Max Payne, Super Mario Bros, Doom, Street figher, Mortal Kombat, House of the dead, Tomb Raider, Alone in the Dark, Silent hill, Resident Evil. You get the point. Video games don't work as movies, and to even attempt to try and do it with something as complex as Mass Effect would just be stupid. Those that play the games would be annoyed at it and those who don't wouldn't bother as it's not a big franchise outside of video games.

 

[Dave]

Mass Effect is not a game that would be easily transferable to the big screen. Many believe that because it looks good and has a really great story that it would automatically make it a wondrous movie and this could not be further from the truth, in all honesty. In my own personal opinion, Mass Effect should stay on a gaming platform, at least until the final part of the puzzle is in place. I definitely think that the story is too big for a console and that it would make sense to have a great story like that in a movie. However, my main concern is that if they took it to the cinema screen, everything that is great about the game would be automatically lost. It has been stated multiple times in here that Mass Effect is all about the choices you make and I think something like this needs to kept it. Otherwise, you seem to be losing everything that made Mass Effect the game that it is.

My own personal thought is that is shouldn't happen but it has been talked about a lot. It is basically in the same boat as Halo. We all know that that was supposed to be going ahead and then it crumbled. I honestly think that it has been discussed and I hope that they have made the decision to keep it on the gaming platform and not to ruin something so brilliant with a lacklustre movie. I have the same fear for Prince Of Persia.