Mass Effect Movie Rights Acquired By 'Watchmen' Production Company

I wonder who they will get to play Commander Shepard, and if it's a guy, will he be as monotone was maleshep?

I'm always looking forward to anything Mass Effect. I hope they don't drop the ball on this one.

These are always such crap shoots. You never know when someone wants to go a "new direction" and change some core key element that made it such an awesome story/game.

With all the past crap game to movie renditions, it is good to see this get picked up by a worthy film maker. Looking forward to this one.

As long as BioWare retain creative control, which they said they would, I don't see this going particularly wrong.

The only thing that worries me is them effectively retelling the game trilogy's story on film. That's not gonna do much for their universe. What I really want is a tie-in movie to the games. That's right, degrade Hollywood to second place. It's more in tune with their revenue anyway. ;)

I would love to see a good action-scifi flick set in the Mass Effect universe. Emphasis on the word "good"...

I just hope they stay away from the main characters and plot of the games. Because if they try to "re-imagine" or "retell" the story arcs of the two games, I can't imagine how that would be any good.

But the writers for Mass Effect have demonstrated that they're more than comfortable in exploring new settings and characters in this universe. Their novels did exactly that. So I guess I'm not too worried.

After beating ME2 I realized something, and that is that a well done videogame offers much more than a movie ever could, im sorry to break it to Hollywood but they are effectively being replaced by interactive films (videogames). I got more cinematic enjoyment out of the two Mass Effect games than ive gotten out of a movie in years. Videogames have the potential to be like books in how engrossing they can be.

Yeah, unless they're doing some alternate storyline, this isn't going to work.

The two games so far have done great service to their story, and don't need to have some "movie canon" imposed on the individual experiences we've all had with them.

I thought I already played two ME movies.

please don't screw this up.

I think the universe and lore would be a fantastic setting for a movie. The cast would have to be good, hell they could even get Yvonne Strahovski to reprise her role as Miranda and Martin Sheen as the Illusive Man. Shepherd? Hmm, good question on that one..

Peter Jackson should direct.

It won't feel right without Jack Wall doing the music.

I enjoyed 300 and The Watchmen. If Mass Effect the movie is lucky enough to have the same kind of talent behind it then it'll definitely be on my list of 'must see' movies.

Just so people know, the producer is not the individual who is responsible for a movie creatively. A producer finds the money, sets schedules and makes some high level casting decisions. The producer is basically responsible for making the film a financial success.

You can't accurately predict whether or not a movie will be good by looking at who the producers are. The director is the person responsible for whether or not a film is good artistically. Unless they get a great director for this one, I can see it being very bad.

Finally, this film will probably never be made. It would be too expensive to make and history shows that besides Star Wars, space opera just doesn't succeed at the box office. This will likely be another Halo movie that is talked about for years, but never made.