Good news for the video game fans out there: Variety is reporting some progress on a Mass Effect movie, with Legendary Pictures picking I am Legend and Thor screenwriter Mark Protosevich to pen a script.
This is good news for fans of the X-Box 360 game, as we will get a chance to see Commander Shephard and the Normandy take on our favorite bad guys, the Reapers, with an eclectic crew of aliens and mercenaries. If you haven’t played the video game you're probably groaning, getting ready to lecture me on how there has never been a good video game-to-movie adaptation. (Prince of Persia, fingers crossed, isn’t out yet.) While you are completely correct, I think Mass Effect could be different. Here’s why:
This article appears in May 27 – Jun 2, 2010.