User blog comment:Teugene/Mass Effect Movie/@comment-730941-20100525043010

Good point, the "depth emotion and plot twists" might be missing from a prequel-y movie.

But then can they really fit a 40+ hour game into a ~2 hour movie? Even if they only took the bare bones of the ME plot and allowed times for some decent fight scenes (required in any modern movie nowadays...) I don't think they could fit it in. Plus you'd have legions of fans screaming that their canon was ruined... And we'd already all know the ending :)

With Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk as co-producers I imagine they'd be fairly reluctant to use the game itself as the basis. Maybe some kind of side-story (perhaps like the novels) that uses all the cool universe features while giving them creative freedom to write a decent screenplay.