User blog comment:The Inceptionist/A Risky Move for the Mass Effect Movie?/@comment-84.212.227.218-20121214114455

The production company is getting cold feet and are cutting development costs from the get-go. Most likely anticipating a limited audience to which this film can be sold, i.e. fans who are already familiar with the game. But it's becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy. In limiting talent and production values due to a high-risk assessment of the project, the material is reduced in quality to such an extent that critical and mass-appeal becomes almost impossible to achieve. The material then has exclusive appeal to this limited audience of familiar fans, and the execs can pat themselves on the back on how they made the right calls. It's a shame because there is absolutely enough richness in this story to produce material with mass-appeal.