mass-effect-movie posts

It's looking like the long standing rumors that a Mass Effect movie has been under development is now moving forward. The Hollywood Reporter's Heat Vision blog site is reporting that mega-independent movie studio Legendary Pictures (The Dark Knight, 300, and most recently Clash of the Titans) has picked up the movie rights to BioWare's sci-fi RPG series.

The story states that a script for the movie is being written by Mark Protosevich, best known for his work on the recent Will Smith film I Am Legend. BioWare co-founders Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk will be executive producers of the planned movie version as will Casey Hudson who has lead the development of the Mass Effect games.

With Mass Effect 2 looking like it will be taking over our lives when it ships on Tuesday, it seems natural that talk should turn to making a movie out of BioWare's sci-fi RPG franchise. MTV chatted with BioWare's Casey Hudson who stated, "Obviously we have a tremendous amount of interest from people in Hollywood to make a major motion picture about Mass Effect."

It does sound like BioWare and publisher Electronic Arts doesn't want a Mass Effect movie to turn into, say, a Wing Commander movie. Hudson states, "We're just looking at our options there, but waiting to make sure we have something really right before we do it." In 2008, Variety reported a rumor that former Marvel Studios head Avi Arad had optioned the Mass Effect movie rights but those rumors were never confirmed.