Mass Effect fans recently got the Legendary Edition remastered trilogy, but it’ll be a while yet before another game is released given that BioWare is focusing first on Dragon Age 4.
What about that Mass Effect movie that was announced over ten years ago as part of a deal with Legendary Pictures? Well, it doesn’t look like it’s happening anymore, and BioWare’s Project Director Mac Walters explained why in a new interview with Business Insider.
For this reason, Walters believes Mass Effect would be much better suited to the TV episodic format.
Will we see an adaptation, then? Walters didn’t confirm anything yet, but he did say he believes it’s only a matter of when, not if.
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.
Not long ago, renowned actor Henry Cavill (Superman, The Witcher) seemed to tease something related to Mass Effect, which raised hopes that an adaptation is not that far off. Needless to say, he would make a perfect fit for Shepard.
