Legendary Pictures acquires movie rights for Mass Effect

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"Commander Shepard is coming to the big screen. The elite soldier–and star of the hit sci-fi video game Mass Effect–is getting a feature film on top of his successful games series. For Legendary Pictures has signed a deal with Electronic Arts and Bioware for the property and they are in talks with writer Mark Protosevich (I Am Legend) to draft a screenplay based on the epic game. Legendary’s Thomas Tull and Jon Jashni will produce the movie with Avi and Ari Arad. The centerpiece of the game is Shepard and his team’s mission to defeat an ancient alien race that invades the galaxy every 50,000 years."

http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2010/05/24/legendary-pictures-acquires-movie-rights-to-hit-videogame-mass-effect

[Nephilim]

oh gawd...now is lvl F5 spam on sites to get a release date

i dun know this go hadda be a 2/3 part scene aint no way they could tell the story of mass effect, even 1 installment, in 2.5 hrs

[Crixx_Creww]

....do we get to customize shepard during the movie?

[Archer]

Neph..........dude...... LMFAO!!!!! Take win

But yea this gonna have to be done in parts, was thinking the same thing after i played ME1 a while back. It too EPIC for 1 movie.

[Crixx_Creww]

are tehy gonna go with default white shep?

[Archer]

^^ I have no idea. Maybe they will but idk. If they doing the default Shephard Matthew Fox for it. What about Will Smith if they choose to go the other way?

[TriniXaeno]

Looks like Matthew Fox gets the nod.

He would have been my pick also for the commander.