It, too, was originally envisioned as a film before switching to a TV series.Īs for the Mass Effect game series, a new entry in the franchise is currently in development, but BioWare has said very, very little about it thus far.
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While a Mass Effect movie or TV might not be happening anytime soon, HBO is working on a Last of Us TV series starring Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey. So it gets added to the main story and sometimes the main story gets adjusted because we did something really cool in that 'episode.' So long-from storytelling is a great place for game franchises," he said. It gets written at the time that we get to it.
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Walters added that each level or mission from Mass Effect is "like its own TV episode." At the time, game director Mac Walters told Game Informer that since the code had been lost, if BioWare were going to add the DLC to the game it would have taken them six months to rebuild it from. There's a natural way it fits well with episodic content," he explained. "If you're going to tell a story that's as fleshed out as Mass Effect, TV is the way to do it. Now, Walters believes that TV-not film-is the right way to tell Mass Effect's story outside of games. "So many people I know in the TV and film industry have reached out to ask me when we're going to do it and saying we've got to do it," Walters said. He went on to say that Mass Effect has "such an expansive" world that could be ripe for storytelling for film or TV. "It never picked up again after that, not for lack of trying," Walters said. Be in N7 Day, a day marked by the name of what is undoubtedly one of the most important franchises in modern video game history.
The producers then decided to restart Mass Effect, but it never worked out. Mass Effect turns fourteen and both BioWare and Electronic Arts want to celebrate. Walters also mentioned that, as a result of a leadership change at Legendary, the movie studio was looking to focus more on TV. What story are we going to tell in 90 to 120 minutes? Are we going to do it justice?"
He told Insider, " It felt like we were always fighting the IP. The announcement came from Mac Walters, the Project Director of Mass Effect Legendary Edition at BioWare, who revealed the news on his own Twitter account. Mac Walters, a BioWare veteran who has been with the studio for 17 years and was a writer on the original game, explained in a recent interview why the film stalled. One of the hired writers, Thor's Mark Protosevich, eventually dropped out, and the project never got off the ground. on board to distribute the project based on BioWare's RPG series. A Mass Effect film was announced in 2010 with Legendary set to produce and Warner Bros.
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