BioWare Explains Why the Mass Effect Movie Was Scrapped

[Tsing]

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Back in 2010, Legendary Pictures won the rights to a film adaptation of BioWare’s popular Mass Effect franchise. While that feature never did materialize, Mac Walters, project director for Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, has finally explained why. According to Walters, it was because BioWare felt like it was “fighting the IP” in that the relatively limited timespan of a 90- to 120-minute film was not enough to tell a good Mass Effect story, which traditionally plays out in what could be hours of gameplay segments and cinematics. Plans for a Mass Effect film also came to a halt when Legendary decided that it would work better as a TV show, but development “never picked up again” and fizzled out. Despite these setbacks, Walters believes that it’s a “matter of when, not if,” Mass Effect fans will get treated to some sort of big-budget Hollywood adaptation...

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[Grimlakin]

If there is a mass effect movie or show.. at least 20 minutes of the movie or 5 minutes of every episode must be spent in an elevator.

 

[Burticus]

Nothing good would have come from it anyway.