The report doesn’t share any further information on the Mass Effect TV series, sadly enough. Not long ago, though, renowned actor Henry Cavill teased something Mass Effect related, and that led many fans to speculate he could be portraying Shepard in a live-action adaptation, though whether he’d be able to juggle that with the ongoing commitment to The Witcher (whose second season premieres December 17th on Netflix) is unclear.
About four months ago, BioWare Project Director Mac Walters commented on live-action adaptations for the beloved IP. Back in 2010, Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. had acquired the rights to produce a Mass Effect film, but Walters said it was never a good fit and a Mass Effect TV series would make much more sense.
If you’re going to tell a story that’s as fleshed out as ‘Mass Effect,’ TV is the way to do it. There’s a natural way it fits well with episodic content.
When we build out a ‘Mass Effect’ game, we have a backbone, or an overall story that we want to tell, but each level or mission is like its own TV episode. It doesn’t get written ahead of time. It gets written at the time that we get to it. 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-form storytelling is a great place for game franchises.
