Rumors of a Mass Effect movie have always existed since the game sold well. But apparently writing the movie is pain in the ass by the sound of it according to Mark Protosevich.
“I wrote a couple of drafts and then they brought on a new writer,” Protosevich writes to Badass Digest.
“When I was on it I was definitely adapting the first game. That story, it was very much the first game. And that was the approach.” Interesting that Legendary wanted to straight up adapt the first game. This however was a problem for Protosevich.
“It was the first game adaptation I did and it will probably be the only one. They’re hard. I will freely admit it was hard. Because – especially with Mass Effect – there’s just so much material. Narratively, with the game, you’re talking about nine, ten hours of narrative you’re jamming into two hours.”
“I hope they pull it off. I’d love to see a Mass Effect movie. I think I did some good work, but even I’ll admit I didn’t pull it off.”
Not encouraging news. Hopefully a writer will come along that can handle the adaption of the first game; or someone comes up with an effective way of adapting the Mass Effect universe for film.
But if they were to adapt Mass Effect 3 into a movie …. might not hurt to change the ending. *runs and hides*
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