Mass Effect (film)

On May 24th, 2010, BioWare announced that Legendary Pictures will be producing a movie version of BioWare's famous sci-fi epic Mass Effect. Legendary Pictures will produce with Thomas Tull, Jon Jashni along with Avi Arad, while BioWare's own Ray Muzyka, Greg Zeschuk and Casey Hudson will serve as executive producers. Mark Protosevich is in talks to write a screenplay.

The project is still in its early development stages.

BioWare Announcement
On The Bioware Forums, Bioware Community Coordinator Chris Priestly made the following announcement.

I am very pleased this morning to announce that there will be a Mass Effect movie made by the fine folks at Legenday Pictures! I know there has been a lot of speculation amongst our fans ever since Mass Effect 1 came out as to whether or not there would be a movie, who should star in it, who would direct, would there be a Wrex sized bucket of popcorn, etc and I can now reveal that, yes, there will be a movie (popcorn deal is still unconfirmed.

Legendary Pictures, the studio behind great films such as The Dark Knight, Watchmen, The Hangover and 300 have picked up the rights to make Mass Effect. Legendary Pictures will produce with Thomas Tull, Jon Jashni along with Avi Arad (who has been behind great films like Iron Man, X-Men and Spider-Man). From BioWare Ray Muzyka, Greg Zeschuck and Casey Hudson will serve as executive producers.

"At BioWare, we’ve always thought of Mass Effect as having the depth, emotion and plot twists perfectly suited for an adaptation to a motion picture,” said Casey Hudson, executive producer of the Mass Effect series. “With Avi Arad and Legendary attached, we believe that the Mass Effect movie will be an extraordinary entertainment event that realizes our vision for the franchise and thrills fans.”